Best Known Tracks
The Quintet is perhaps best known for the 1965 hit single "She's About a Mover" written by Doug Sahm. The song has a 12-bar blues structure. "She's About a Mover" is very well known, and was once named the number one 'Texas' song by Texas Monthly. With a Vox Continental organ riff provided by Augie Meyers and soulful vocals from Doug Sahm, and lead singer guitarist Sahm, the track has a Tex-Mex sound. The regional smash became a breakaway hit, and the recording was used in the soundtracks of the films "Echo Park" (1986), "American Boyfriends" (1989), "The Doors" (1991), "Riding in Cars with Boys" (2001), "Sorority Boys" (2002), and "Beautiful Darling: (2010). The Quintet's recordings were used as well in the soundtracks of other films, such as Cisco Pike and An Officer and a Gentleman.
In addition to "She's About a Mover," the band is known for its songs "Mendocino," (1968) "Can You Dig My Vibrations?" (1968) and "Dynamite Woman" (1969). "Mendocino" was released in December 1968, and reached No. 27 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 by early 1969, spending 15 weeks in the chart. It was more successful in Europe selling over three million copies there. The track was featured in the generally highly regarded film High Fidelity, starring John Cusack and Jack Black. Having made considerable musical impact, the Quintet at one point went on to share the same European bill as the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones.
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