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Label: Hi-Lo Records ‎-- LO 5
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1986

Tracklist
A1 Nothing Can Be Everything
A2 And We Still Feel The Same
A3 Yesterdays Gone
A4 Confidence And Love
A5 Plan Of Action
A6 Time After Time
A7 Shape Of Things (Written-by -- Mann And Weil)
A8 I Wanna Hold Your Hands
B1 The Bird
B2 New Difference
B3 Man About Town
B4 Ever Any Reason
B5 Deliver Into Everything
B6 Dont Know Where To Start (Written-By -- Kevin Ring)
B7 For Those
B8 Go On

Written-By -- Bart Mendoza (except track A7 and B6)

Recorded At -- Circle Sound
Distributed By -- Nine Mile
Distributed By -- The Cartel

Vocals, Rhythm Guitar -- Bart Mendoza
Lead Guitar -- Kevin Ring
Bass -- Ron Friedman
Drums -- David Anderson, Paul Brewin

Recorded at Circle Sound San Diego

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"Shape of Things to Come" is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil from the film Wild in the Streets, performed by the fictional band Max Frost and the Troopers on their 1968 album Shape of Things to Come.
The song was also released without vocals by Davie Allan and the Arrows.
The song was a mere 1 minute 55 seconds in length.

Others who have performed the song include:
Slade,
Rich Kids,
Vacuum,
Aorta,
Third Rail,
Paul Revere and the Raiders,
The Pointed Sticks,
The Ramones,
the Fuzztones,
The Urinals,
The Diodes,
Mod Fun and Marshmallow Overcoat.

More recently, the song has been released by Thee Dirtybeats, Toxic Reasons and Janelle Monáe.

Success

The song was produced by Mike Curb for the exploitation film Wild in the Streets, where it was lip-synced by Christopher Jones.
A young Richard Pryor portrayed the drummer in Jones' band.

The song originally appeared as the first track on the A side of the Shape of Things to Come LP.

It was subsequently released as a single on Tower 419; it was backed by "Free Lovin'" (written by Guy Hemric and Paul Wibier).

The single peaked at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the week of October 26, 1968, and peaked at #2 on the Canadian charts for two consecutive weeks during the second and third week of October, 1968.
The song remained on the US Billboard charts for total of 9 weeks.

In popular culture

In 2006, the Max Frost & The Troopers version of the song was used in an advertising campaign by Target Stores.