This was something that money could not buy. Although I did not want a relationship with Ann, I did have feelings for her. The first line was because at that moment, money could not make me feel the way I was feeling. This is the reason for those first three lines. I don’t need a whole lots of money, I don’t need a big fine car, I’ve got everything that a man could want, I’ve got more, than I could ask for. After I finished the sandwich, I began writing the lyrics to some kind of wonderful on the bag she had packed my lunch in. After about four hours into the trip, I ate the sandwich Ann had prepared for me. You could see the highway through the rusted out holes in the floor.

This was around 6am, I turned and walked towards the old 1960 Ford we had bought for the trip that was eaten up by rust. I looked at her and said, you are some kind of wonderful, I’m gonna write a song about you. She knew I had dreams that nothing could get in the way of. I knew this was the last time I would see her, I knew she wanted more from me than I could give her, but she understood. We stood there in silence for a moment just looking at each other.

She had packed me a lunch in a brown paper bag. The day we were leaving for Philadelphia, I stopped by the apartment of the girl I was dating, to say goodby. He convinced us to sign a management contract, plus a recording contract with him, and invited our group to come to Philly to record. We met Walter at a club in Rochester, New York where we played every weekend. My band, the Soul Brothers Six, had signed a recording contract with a small independent record label in Philadelphia that was owned by Walter Rayfield. I still remember that moment as if it was yesterday. I would like to share a story with you, and fans, of how the phrase some kind of wonderful, came to be a song. Subject: Fwd: SHE’S SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL I found his story about how and why he wrote the song really great, and I love the original version of the song – which you can check out at the bottom of this post. Bob Lefsetz wrote about the song “Some Kind of Wonderful,” made into a hit by Grand Funk Railroad, which prompted the song’s writer and original singer John Ellison, of the great, forgotten Soul Brothers Six, to respond.

Some kind of wonderful music