The following is a #TrueStory, according to Rolling Stone:
"Mustang Sally" nearly ended up on the studio floor -- literally. After Wilson Pickett finished his final take at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the tape suddenly flew off the reel and broke into pieces. But the session engineer, the legendary Tom Dowd, calmly cleared the room and told everyone to come back in half an hour. Dowd pieced the tape back together and saved what became one of the funkiest soul anthems of the Sixties.
Of course, the thing that nobody wants to admit is that Dowd didn't get the pieces put together in the correct order. The song was originally a protest record about a particular condiment used at a local Asian restaurant:
"Dang That Ill Mustard, Lee!"
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