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Recognized to some as “the Seaside Boys from the Midwest,” the Boys NEARBY were one of the relatively few competent emulators from the Seaside Boys/Jan & Dean vocal/warm rod/surf sound, and certainly among the few competent emulators to emerge from beyond California. Created in Indianapolis, they released several singles in …

Willie & the Tires really was a mid-’60s studio room concoction of composing and creation duo P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri. Sloan and Barri released countless songs of browse and warm rod music under different group titles (like the Fantastic Baggys as well as the Rincon Surfside Music group) through …

The Super Shares were among the better and much more interesting studio creations of producer-composer Gary Usher. Usher have been a vocalist and recording musician in his very own right, but produced his biggest splash within the music business through the early ’60s, through his collaborations with Brian Wilson on …

Through the entire ’60s and ’70s, guitarist/songwriter Jerry Cole caused a few of the most prominent talents in rock and roll & move, including Them, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, so when a session man in Phil Spector’s Wrecking Crew. Along with his have group the Spacemen, Cole released four …

Nashville’s greatest contribution towards the hot fishing rod and surfing trend of the first ’60s came by means of Ronny & the Daytonas. Focused around singer-guitarist-songwriter John “Bucky” Wilkin (kid of nation tunesmith Marijohn Wilkin, most widely known for composing “Longer Dark Veil” and “1 DAY at the same time”), …

P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri composed and created countless browse and hot fishing rod tracks within the middle-’60s under several group names, among that was the Rincon Surfside Music group. Officially the Rincon music group released one record, The Surfing Melody Reserve, on Dunhill Information in 1965. Stuff get a …

Offering the soundtrack to varied biker and teen exploitation movies within the mid- and late ’60s, Davie Allan & the Arrows bridged the browse and psychedelic eras. Their traveling, basic instrumentals presented loads and plenty of fuzz acoustic guitar, in addition to good dollops of tremolo pub waggling and wah-wah. …

Gary Usher’s importance in the annals of California rock and roll is substantial. He co-wrote many of the Seaside Kids’ early tracks with Brian Wilson, including classics like “IN MY OWN Space” and “409,” and created the Byrds’ Younger Than Last night and Notorious Byrd Brothers albums. He was also …

Two albums were released with the Deuce Coupes in 1963, one on Crown Information (Shut Downs) and something on Del-Fi Information (Hotrodder’s Choice), and even though both were filled with the hot rod-themed music and instrumentals which were popular at that time, they were in fact two different groupings sporting …

The Customs were a studio construct come up with by Richard Delvy to get a project that finished up being called Hot Rod City, released by Vault Information in the first ’60s. Ostensibly a various-artists compilation, the record featured tracks with the Traditions, the Quads, as well as the Grand …