In fact, the band thought they were all done recording their eighth studio album, Gold Plated (1976) when their manager, Miles Copeland, demanded they add one more "radio-friendly" track, according to The Independent. Copeland apparently suggested an Elvis Presley cover, but the band members decided to write a song about life on the road instead:
As guitarist/vocalist Peter Haycock explained years later, the song's "original composition" was his own.
"A good example would be the transition from my original ‘We all went looking for a sign in the middle of the night’ to ‘I kept on looking,'" he continued. "My original chorus lyric idea was simply about driving around some city in the USA trying to find the Holiday Inn, which, despite its brightly illuminated sign, became increasingly hard to reach due to one-way systems, et cetera."
'Couldn't Get It Right' was Climax Blues Band's biggest hit ever
"With 'Couldn’t Get It Right,' the Climax Blues Band transcended the clichés of the road-song genre and incorporated several of their trademarks, including the vocal harmonies of Haycock and Holt behind Cooper’s lead, and Haycock’s guitar being played in unison with Cooper’s saxophone, to create a concise gem of a single equal to the best work of the Doobie Brothers or Ace," wrote Pierre Perrone of The Independent in a 2013 obituary for Haycock.
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