Yes, that is Donnie Iris and The Cruisers playing The Black Keys' 'Your Touch'. It's not the first time our boy from Elwood City has done a cover song, though.
On 1982's The High and The Mighty Donnie and the boys covered the British Invasion classic 'Glad All Over', originally by The Dave Clark Five. Interestingly, during The Beatles' first run of number one singles, only Dave and company were able to knock them out of that spot. Donnie and company didn't do quite so well on the charts with the song, but they did a good job on it regardless. Check it out:
On 1982's The High and The Mighty Donnie and the boys covered the British Invasion classic 'Glad All Over', originally by The Dave Clark Five. Interestingly, during The Beatles' first run of number one singles, only Dave and company were able to knock them out of that spot. Donnie and company didn't do quite so well on the charts with the song, but they did a good job on it regardless. Check it out:
More recently, on 2006's Ellwood City, Donnie and crew decided to cover the Sam & Dave soul classic 'Soul Man'. The arrangement rocks, unbelievably so. It's really damn good; but I can't find the album version on YouTube. This horrible-quality live version will have to do.
And you thought Donnie was just Pittsburgh's token rock star.
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