Also, this Marvin Gaye tune sounds quite a bit like Carl's Big Chance.
Now
that's a lot closer to these cloth ears. Of course, "CIGAW" spawned quite a raft of great soundalikes (Donnie Elbert's "A Little Piece of Leather", Tommy Tucker's "Hi Heel Sneakers", The Animals' "Send You Back To Walker"...).
What I hear at c. 1:42 of "GV" is the chords of The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" but back to front, so to speak:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eab_beh07HUEven the "Wilson Pickett" version is too laid back in my opinion for comparison with the urgent likes of "Witness" and Solomon Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love".
Just my two (or three) eurocents...