F&S GO BEAT!
- Blue Tattoo: "Medicine man" (US Paramount -72 promo)
The Buchanan Bros. hit from 69, revv'd up with lotsa congas and (maybe not as cool) slide guitar.
- Turtles: "Buzz saw" (US White Whale -68)
- Standells: "Rari" (US Tower -66)
Singer warning for intimate relations with Ireland- or island girls?
As this LA group, not so convincingly, held Boston as home- most.
prob. about insular US East Coast femmes?
- Mercy: "Fire ball" (US Sundi -68 promo)
Flip of big seller 'Love can make you happy', this wheezing instro must be jig saw counterpart to Turtles' above. Tampa, Fla. group.
- Raspberries: "Tonight" (US Capitol -73)
- Raspberries: "Go all the way" (US Capitol -72)
Clevelanders Eric Carmen & Raspies' 2x150 sec's of RnR history. Hints of Immediate-Small Faces, Creation, Blossom Toes plus entire 'Brum catalogue, including Wizzard and ELO prior even to their very emergence.
- Hollies: "Hey Willy" (US Epic -72 promo) how come hev'vy by dem?
- Outsiders: "Lost in my world" (US Capitol -66)
Remake of these Clevelanders' "time won't let me", really.
- Everly Bros.: "When will I be loved" (Ger. Heliodor -60)
Fink last single on US Cadence,fall 59. Their Kentucky-born father was C&W artist on his own and sidekick of Ernest Tubb. Unusual chord progression here, reflecting boys' BG upbringing? Guess this German edition was spun to grinds by Paulie,Johnnie,Georgie,Pete and Stu backstage at Hamburger Bambi Kino autumn 1960.
- Donovan: "Goo goo barabajagal" (Can. Epic -68) Jeff Beck Trio
- Tremoloes: "Suddenly winter" (US Epic -69)
Lotsa backwards guitar. Fink song was recorded 67, accordingly.
- Terry Knight & Pack: "Numbers" (US Lucky Seven -66) fuzz box
galore
- Lulu: "The boat that I row" (UK Col. -67)
- Monkees: "Valleri" (US Colgems -68)
Demo version used in TV series early 67, then finished and released without band's knowledge 18 months later. Group was all the more too busy with their heady 'Head' album to care.
- Brian Hyland: "Run, run, look and see" (US Philips -66)
- Andy Williams: "Can't get used to losing you" (UK CBS -63)
Pomus/Shuman song, where punctating strings are underscoring the slightly threatening lyrics...
- Raw Meat: "Run for your life" (US Musicor -68)
Speaking of threats...I've earlier said this to be of Lennon's Battered Wife-songs. More than so, I'm afraid. Uptempo'd blue eyed funk, otherwise.
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