This song is unusual enough to be interesting. I liked it when I first heard it in 1971 (when I was 11 years old!) and I like it now.
Lee Michaels was from Los Angeles and moved to San Francisco in the mid-1960s. He became known for performances featuring just him on the Hammond organ and a drummer nicknamed Frosty who played bare-handed. "Do You Know What I Mean" was from his fifth album, appropriately titled 5th; it reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Michaels' follow-up single, a version of "Can I Get A Witness" (written by the Motown songwriting team of Holland, Dozier, and Holland), reached #39 on the Hot 100 but didn't get airplay in Toronto. It's a lot more soul-shouty than his hit and thus is less interesting.
Michaels more or less left the music business by the end of the 1970s. In 1988, he opened a restaurant named "Killer Shrimp" in Marina del Rey, California; he is still running it at the time I write this and will turn 81 in November.
Created February 13, 2026.