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Yes, The Rationals, were a band Iggy Pop knew well. But any contention that the "lyrics of Iggy Pop's track "Get Up And Get Out" from his 1980 album "Soldier" are mostly lifted from the band's 1967 single "Leavin' Here" is absurd. The Rationals didn't write "Leaving Here." They weren't even the first Detroit artists' to release it. This Holland-Dozier-Holland composition was a solo Eddie Holland hit for Motown in 1963. That version was almost certainly where Iggy & The Rationals first heard the song at roughly the same time.

The Rationals weren't even the first group to cover the song. Blue-eyed soul shouter Tommy Good released "Leaving Here" as a Motown B-side the following year. Future The Rolling Stones' guitarist Ron Wood's The Birds released their cover on Decca in 1965. Around the same time The Who were covering "Leaving Here" live.