Lover and Stuller's Riot

Bobby None, the Rubins bass singer, simply couldn't get the kind of menacing tones that the song needed. Richard Berry was a singer with a do-op group called The Flares who recorded from Modern and RPM records. Other members of the Rubins later claimed that None had refused to sing the lead, finding the lyrics offensive. Terrell Leonard said, We didn't understand our heritage. These two white songwriters knew our culture better than we did. But they knew someone who would.