Tag Archives: 1965

Contrary to public opinion, the Rip Chords were actually a genuine group, a duo featuring Ernie Bringas and Phil Stewart, overdubbed right into a larger group sound simply by manufacturer Terry Melcher and his partner, Bruce Johnston. After two failed singles, Melcher and Johnston overran the business lead performing reins …

Rhythm-and-blues-based band shaped in past due 1963, who worked quite definitely in the Moving Rocks’ vein. Their documenting career took these to Pye Information for three singles, included in this a cover of “I ACQUIRED My Mojo Functioning,” released in 1964, and a Milt Jackson quantity, “Bag’s Groove,” from 1965. …

Although this duo is mainly remembered being a one-hit act — for “Like Is Strange,” which reached number 11 in 1957 — they in fact recorded a number of exciting hybrids of R&B and rock and roll & move in the mid- and later ’50s. Playing on countless ’50s periods …

Although many of their singles are sought after by collectors of ’60s United kingdom rock, Les Fleur de Lys remain obscure sometimes by cult standards. That’s partially because they hardly ever came near getting a strike, but also because their furious speed of lineup adjustments makes their background very hard …

Among the many competent Swedish rings imitating Anglo rock and roll in the mid-’60s, the Fabulous Four had four TOP hits within their local nation in 1966 and 1967, failing woefully to help to make a ripple elsewhere. In the way of several Swedish acts, that they had an nearly …

The Lea Riders Group weren’t the very best Swedish band from the ’60s, however in a field crowded by imitators of Uk Invasion acts, these were probably one of the most original. Their glowing instant was their 1968 solitary “Dom Kallar Oss Mods,” among the standouts around the psychedelic level …

The Enchanters were the music group led by soul vocalist Garnet Mimms in the mid-’60s. Mims disbanded his earlier group the Gainors in 1961 and teamed with Charles Boyer, Sam Bell and Zola Pearnell. But Mimms’ maker Jerry Ragovoy would occasionally use the Lovely Inspirations to back again Mimms as …

The Dukays’ bright future dimmed only once record-company shenanigans did them in; their 1961 smash “The Duke of Earl” was acknowledged solely with their lead singer, Eugene Dixon (aka Gene Chandler), who still left the group after it had been re-released on another label. One of the most well-known groupings …

Christoph Heeman’s recordings with H.N.A.S. so that as a single act reveal his inheritance of several rich Western legacies: Kraut-rock, the commercial cut-ups of Nurse with Wound and Cabaret Voltaire, and the thought of the unseen soundtrack which includes intrigued many independent-minded makers from Brian Eno to Paul Schütze. In …

Jimmy Powell was among the accurate veterans from the Uk blues picture, having trim his first one (“Glucose Babe” Pts. 1 and 2) for Decca in 1962, when Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies acquired barely set up themselves. Powell produced the Proportions in 1963 as his support music group, and …