He wrote The High Numbers' first and only single, "I'm the Face"; the B-side of which was "Zoot Suit".
Other notable covers of Slim Harpo songs include "I Got Love If You Want It" by The Kinks, "I'm the Face" by the Who (when they were still called The High Numbers), "I'm A King Bee" by The Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd and The Doors, and "Don't Start Crying Now" by Them with Van Morrison.
"I'm the Face" was again released as a b-side single to "Long Live Rock" along with a live version of "My Wife" for the UK single but was dropped on the US single.
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"I'm the Face" appeared on "Odds & Sods" in 1974 and on the album's remastered versions.
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He also appeared in several films which include The Long Riders, Zoot Suit, Top Gun and most recently Beautiful Dreamer.
After her marriage to Todd Susman she moved to Los Angeles and found work as a dancer on many televisions shows, including Sonny and Cher, The Brady Bunch Hour (as part of The Krofftettes water ballet troupe), the Academy Awards, along with featured dance roles in the movies Grease, Zoot Suit and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The Harlem Lindy Hop dance club and zoot suit culture forms a colourful backdrop in the early part of Spike Lee's film Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington.
His last recording, an original ska tune called "Zoot Suit Hipster", was recorded in Kingston with Leroy Wallace aka Horsemouth on drums, Bruno Blum on guitar and Flabba Holt on bass.
Cholo and Vato are terms for modern-day Latino street gangsters, though the association with the zoot suit is no longer present
A zoot suit riot at Cooley High School was initially dismissed as an "adolescent imitation" of the Los Angeles riots; however, within weeks Detroit was in the midst of the worst race riot in its history.