The Hombres#Album

Formed in 1966, The Hombres comprised Jerry Lee Masters (leader and bass player); Gary Wayne McEwen on guitar; B. B. Cunningham, Jr. (died October 14, 2012), on lead vocals and electronic organ; and John Will Hunter (died February 1976) on drums.{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=1179}}

Written by Masters, Hunter, McEwen and Cunningham and released on Verve Forecast Records, "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" hit number 12{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1967-11-18|title=Hot 100|publisher=Billboard|location=New York, New York|date=1967-11-18|access-date=2018-04-25}} in 1967, and was revived on the soundtrack of the 2005 Cameron Crowe film, Elizabethtown. On WLS, The Box Tops' "The Letter" (with Bill Cunningham) and The Hombres' "Let It Out" (with Bill Cunningham's brother B.B. Cunningham Jr.) were respectively number one and number two for two weeks in October 1967.{{cite web|url=http://www.oldiesloon.com/il/wls102767.htm|title=WLS Silver Dollar Survey|access-date=2014-06-18}}

The song's spoken introduction – "A preachment, dear friends, you are about to receive on John Barleycorn, nicotine and the temptations of Eve" – dates to the 1947 novelty recording, "Cigareets, Whuskey and Wild, Wild Women", by Red Ingle and His Natural Seven.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcKGrCrVFxw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/qcKGrCrVFxw |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title="Cigareets, Whuskey, & Wild, Wild Women"-Red Ingle |publisher=YouTube |date=2008-04-22 |access-date=2012-12-18}}{{cbignore}}

A 1967 version of the song by disc jockey Barney Pip was included on the Pebbles, Volume 7 compilation (1994).

The original "Let It Out" was included in the 1972 compilation album, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era.

The track has been used in a U.S. advertising campaign for Foster's Lager.

The song was covered by Jonathan King in 1969{{cite web|url=http://j_withers.tripod.com/JK45s.htm |title=Jonathan King Discography |website=J_withers.tripod.com |date= |access-date=2012-12-18}} and also appears on his 1989 compilation album, The Butterfly That Stamped.

A version of "Let It Out" was recorded by The Nails in the mid-1980s.

The song was sampled in "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" by Definition of Sound (1991), "The Humblest Start" by LP&JC (2010), and "Let It All Hang Out" by Matlock (2022).{{Cite web |title=Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) by The Hombres on WhoSampled |url=https://www.whosampled.com/The-Hombres/Let-It-Out-(Let-It-All-Hang-Out)/ |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=WhoSampled |language=en}}

The song appears on John Mellencamp's 1989 album, Big Daddy.

The song appears on David Lee Roth's 2003 album, Diamond Dave.

B.B. Cunningham rerecorded "Let It Out" (with new lyrics) for his 2003 solo album, [https://www.discogs.com/release/14156944-BB-Cunningham-Hangin-In Hangin In].

Hunter committed suicide with a gun in February 1976.{{cite web|url=http://www.musicminder.com/scripts/entertainers/displayentertainer.asp?ID=1033 |title=John Hunter | Biography | MusicMinder, the Premier Entertainers Directory |website=Musicminder.com |date= |access-date=2014-08-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116234641/http://www.musicminder.com/scripts/entertainers/displayentertainer.asp?ID=1033 |archive-date=2021-01-16|url-status=dead}}

B. B. Cunningham, Jr. was shot and killed on October 14, 2012, while employed as a security guard in Memphis, Tennessee.{{cite web|last=Callahan |first=Jody |url=http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/oct/14/east-memphis-shooting-leaves-two-dead/ |title=Memphis musician B.B. Cunningham killed in shooting incident |publisher=The Commercial Appeal |date=2012-12-13 |access-date=2012-12-18}}

• Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) (1967) Verve Forecast – FTS-3036 [Recorded in February and August 1967]

Track listing

1. "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)" (B. B. Cunningham, Jr.) - 2:05
2. "Little 2 + 2" (Cunningham, Jerry Lee Masters, John Will Hunter, Gary Wayne McEwen) - 1:40
3. "So Sad" (Don Everly) - 3:47
4. "Gloria" (Van Morrison) - 5:43
5. "Am I High" (Cunningham, Masters, Hunter, McEwen) - 2:49
6. "Mau Mau Mau" (Cunningham, Masters, Hunter, McEwen) - 2:15
7. "This Little Girl" (Cunningham, Masters, Hunter, McEwen) - 1:58
8. "Sorry 'Bout That" (McEwen, Stanley Kessler) - 2:15
9. "Ya Ya" (Clarence Lewis, Lee Dorsey, Morgan Robinson) - 3:11
10. "Hey Little Girl" (Cunningham, Masters, Hunter, McEwen) - 1:46
11. "It's a Gas" (Cunningham, Masters, Hunter, McEwen) - 1:56

Technical staff

• Producer – Huey P. Meaux
• Engineer – G. D. Shelby, Stanley Kessler, Val Valentin

• 1967: "Let It All Hang Out" / "Go Girl, Go" – (Cunningham; Masters, Hunter, McEwen), Verve Forecast KF 5058 – No. 12 US,{{cite web|url=http://www.umusic.ca/doublediscgold/ |title=Universal Music Canada | Home |website=Umusic.ca |date= |access-date=2012-12-18}} No. 16 AUS; No. 25 CAN{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.100119.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - November 18, 1967}}
• 1967: "It's a Gas" / "Am I High" – Verve Forecast KF 5076
• 1968: "The Prodigal" / "Mau Mau Mau" – Verve Forecast KF 5083
• 1968: "Take My Overwhelming Love (and Cram It Up Your Heart)" / "Pumkin Man" – Verve Forecast KF 5093
• 1969: "If This Ain't Loving You Baby (It'll Have to Do Till I Get Some Sleep)" / "You Made Me What I Am" – Sun 1104

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• {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p18299}}
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• [http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/The-Hombres.html Biography] from The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin
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