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Sunday, March 13, 2016

In Dan's Garage...#118

Greetings music lovers! I'm gonna keep things brief today because I'm a little short on time so lets get the festivities started quick-like. This post features some cool beat and garage, but takes a quick left turn towards the middle with some sunshine pop courtesy of none other than THE OSMOND BROTHERS! No, really, I swear, check it out, you'll like it! And awaaaaaay we go!!!!

Jack E. Lee & The Squires - Love That Louie / Octavepuss (1964)
Jack Ely AKA "Jack E. Lee" was most famous for singing lead vocal on the most legendary rock & roll song of all time, "Louie Louie". After leaving The Kingsmen he started his own act fronting "The Squires" On this 45 he basically rehashes the Louie formula to the T except for some sideways chord changes. This record is pure genius.

Big Three - Cavern Stomp / By The Way (1963)
One of the most popular of the Liverpool acts in 1963 were The Big Three, pals of The Beatles who would obviously go on to be what is considered my many the greatest Rock & Roll group of all time. In Liverpool 1962 The Big Three were pretty much on the same level as The Beatles, and were regulars at The Cavern Club as were The Fab Four. This 45 features an ode to the most popular dance at the Cavern, and the flip is a Mitch Murray composition that sounds, well.... very Mitch Murray-ish.

Untamed - It's Not True / Gimme Gimme Some Shade (1966)
A great freakbeat group from the UK that was produced by Shel Talmy . They had at least one other 45 on Planet.

Art August & The Dorian-aires - Nightmares / The Greatest Story (1965)
Here's an interesting 45 by a guy named Art August. In my somewhat feeble research, I did  come up with a few Art August 45s that were released in the late 50's early '60s on a few different labels, but no cohesive info to put anything together except...the writer of this song, Murray D. Schwimmer seems to have written songs for about a half dozen different acts on as many labels, including one of the early Art August 45s which leads me to believe Murray may be Art. This same song was done by The Fairviews, one of Bud Mathis' acts, which appeared on Spin-It records a label that holds the same address as this one, Rama. The Fairviews version also appears on Boulders Vol. 8 and is more up-tempo but this is a good version regardless. Anyone out there got any solid info on Art???? Drop me a line please......

T.J.K. & His P.S.13 Blues Band - Boo Goo Loo Baby / Shades Of Blue (1966)
Possibly a studio group but I might be wrong. In any case it's a strange two sider with a grooving Bo Diddley beat on the A side, but the B sounds entirely different. Not exactly garage, but not exactly blues either.

Original Dukes - Ain't About To Lose My Cool / It Looks Like Rain (1966)
One of obviously hundreds of "Dukes" that were invading garages and night clubs and teen dances across the US, these "Dukes" were from somewhere down south, most likely Tennessee, or maybe Georgia, or Kentucky, or who knows, but they certainly lay claim to being the "original" item. Anyway, this is a classic southern R & B garage punker with some way cool vocals and a killer guitar solo. DIG IT!!!!

Uniques - How Lucky Can One Man Be / You Don't Miss Your Water (1968)
Not exactly one of the more "garagey" efforts from Joe Stampley and the Uniques, this 45 is more "blue eyed soul" if you get what I mean.

John Fred & His Playboy Band - Sometimes You Just Can't Win / What Is Happiness (1968)
As we all know, John Fred's biggest hit was "Judy In Disguise", and he's mostly considered a "one hit wonder" because, well....that was his only bg hit. But at the same time he was a popular act down south, and he released a slew of 45's on Paula and Jewel records in styles ranging from garage, to R&B, and light psych as well as heard on this record which is a cover of Mouse & The Traps' "Sometimes You Just Can't Win".

Kawasaki Good Time Band - I Got A Woman (Way Cross Town) / Suzy Q (19??)
Well...this one here is a stumper. Except for the fact that this is a band from somewhere down south, I have no other clue as to who they are. I'm not sure if it's from the 60's or possibly the early 70's I can't say for sure because some of these types of bands were playing basic rock & roll like this well into the 70's. In any case we have two covers here, Ray Charles' "I Got A Woman (Way Cross Town)" and Dale Hawkins' "Suzy Q".

Osmond Brothers - Flower Music / I Can't Stop (1967)
Oh brother, I know I'm going to probably take some heat from a few of you out there, but this particular 45 is very interesting. The Osmond Brothers had been around for several years before this 45 was released doing a regular barber shop quartet thing on The Andy Williams show during the early sixties. Well...even devout Mormons can get sick of being square and hanging out with the likes of them so they understandably had the urge to branch out into some "rock" music. Although this isn't anything wild, it's really not that bad either and holds up well against other 'Sunshine Pop" songs of the era.

Sunshine Company - Back On The Street Again / A Year Of Jaine Time (1967)
The second 45 from this group out of LA that pretty much epitomizes the "Sunshine Pop" sound.

Mad Andy's Twist Combo - Xtra, Xtra, Read All About It / Painted Smile (1969)
This LA group under the production of Music Machine whiz Brian Ross, released another 45 on this same label as "The Pasternak Progress". This one is a crazy disjointed psychedelic effort.


Wadsworth Mansion - Sweet Mary / What's On Tonight (1970)
Wadsworth Mansion hit the charts in 1970 with this 45, and they had an LP release as well. Not bad for bubblegum. The flip side is actually pretty cool.

Smyle - Glory, Glory / Will I Get Back Home Tomorrow (1971)
This was actually released in Canada on Ruby Records in 1969 and was then picked up by Epic where they re-released it along with an LP. Pretty good early 70's guitar stuff here that doesn't stray too far away from psychedelia.

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21 comments:

  1. Thank you for all my friend!

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  2. Many thanks for all your hard work on putting these together. Really enjoy listening to them.

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  3. any idea about the whereabouts of T.J.K. & His P.S.13 Blues Band? a killer (I like the flp too). as always, thx for sharing mate!

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  4. Excellent stuff Dan.....many thanks!

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  5. Thank you very much for the link. This is a really great collection. :)

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  6. The "Original Dukes" hailed from Indianapolis.
    http://indiana-bands-60s.blogspot.com/2009/08/original-dukes-indianapolis.html

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    1. Thank you for the info!!!!!

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    2. Thank you for the info!!!!!

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    3. Dan,

      I'm the son of the drummer that played on the "I got a woman" and "Suzy Q" 45 you mentioned. That was recorded in 73 or 74. The band was from central Michigan. Ted Belanger on lead vocals and guitar, Gary Vandenberg on bass/vocals and Lon "Ace" Ackerman on drums/vocals. Thanks for a blast from the past.

      Mark Ackerman
      Mark.ackerman@ymail.com

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  8. Hi Dan - I really am amazed at the amount of tunes you have posted - outstanding! I just completed downloading all Dan's Garage discs, but discovered there are 5 volumes with non working links. Would you ever be able to re-upload the following:

    #21
    #35
    #36
    #37
    #65 - The link on this is for #62

    Thanks again - this is a great work in progress!

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    1. Thank you. I'll work on the dead links.

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    2. Thanks again for the heads up. Sorry for the delay but I finally re-upped those dead links. As for issue #21 here's the link for that post https://dansgarage.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/idg21/
      For some reason blogger kept removing that one. I hope all is complete now!

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  9. Thanks a bunch Dan - I now have the complete collection - Once again, I applaud you for this great work!

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  10. Hi Dan! Was doing a search on my dads record and surprised to find it here. THE KAWASAKI GOOD TIME BAND with Suzy Q and I got a woman was my dads band and it was recorded around 1977. My dad was lead singer, guitarist and his name was Ted Belanger. They called him "Teddy B"...not sure of the other members other than the drummer and his name is Lon Ackerman.

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    1. Tania,
      Sorry for not replying sooner.but that is some very cool info!!! It's always nice to hear from members and/or family of long lost "garage bands". I was somewhat surprised that 45 came out in 1977 as it definitely sounds like something from the 60's, but who cares?? It's a great 45. Thanks for checking in I appreciate the info.
      Thanks, Dan

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  11. It was later than that Mark because dad brought us a copy after he had gotten them and I brought it to school for show and tell in 2nd grade and I was like 7 yrs old..so would of been around that time...but yes Dan, the band was from Michigan.

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    1. That's an awesome anecdote. Thanks for writing, it's folks like you that keep this blog going.
      Dan

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