October Country

October Nation was a six-piece, Los Angeles-based harmony pop group. They’re probably best-remembered because of their association with manufacturer/composer/songwriter Michael Lloyd. Lloyd had been an achieved songwriter by age group 13, putting your signature on a publishing cope with L.A. manufacturer Kim Fowley, who afterwards presented him to entertainment mogul Mike Curb. Fowley hoped that Curb would make use of a few of Lloyd’s music within the “teensploitation” movies he was making at that time. Rather, Curb provided Lloyd the chance to make a handful of groupings for his Tower imprint and its own Sidewalk subsidiary, including among Lloyd’s own groupings, the Laughing Blowing wind. Lloyd was 15 when his initial one made by Fowley was released in 1966 (a couple of years later on this same group — which presented Stan Ayeroff on acoustic guitar and Steve Baim on drums — released many “songbook” albums, like the Cream Songbook, although these were acknowledged to “the ELASTIC BAND” at that time). In the mean time, Lloyd’s profile within the L.A. music community is at ascendance and brought him fresh possibilities. He was quickly offered the opportunity to create a We Five-ish folk-rock group, led by way of a pair of performing siblings: Caryle De Franca (actual name Carol De Franca) and her sibling Joe. The group experienced already performed within the Sunset Remove picture, where they supported organizations just like the Rivingtonsand the Coasters. They put together at Columbia Information and, under Lloyd’s guidance, documented the Lloyd-penned “Oct Nation.” (Once they remaining the studio room, nevertheless, Lloyd overdubbed himself playing on lots of the musical instruments, changing their poorer shows). The group followed the name Oct Nation thereafter, and agreed upon with Epic Information, which released that initial one in past due 1967. With the springtime of 1968, the group’s second one, “My Girlfriend Is really a Witch,” premiered, followed several months later by way of a third one, “Cowboys and Indians.” A self-titled LP premiered that same season, however the group’s information failed to capture on beyond the L.A. region. Curb was non-etheless impressed using what he noticed and provided Lloyd free of charge reign of his Hollywood Boulevard Studios for another half a year, where he and two various other musicians constructed, performed, and documented an entire record of equivalent Laurel Canyon-esque psych-folk for his Sidewalk Productions, this time around releasing the materials beneath the name the Smoke cigarettes, a band offering Lloyd as well as the various other members from the studio room group previously referred to as the ELASTIC BAND. On the other hand, in 1969, Curb and Lloyd created bubblegum rock for the cartoon program known as Cattanooga Felines, which highlighted a pop-punk edition of “My Partner Is really a Witch,” reputedly with Rupert Holmes (of “Get away (The Piña Colada Tune)” popularity) on business lead vocals.