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Formed in NORTH PARK but located in LA for a lot of their short career, the CRISIS had been a second-division, mid-’60s Southern Californian rock-band that performed folk-rock, sunshine pop, soft rock and roll, and early psychedelia on the single LP and a small number of 45s without creating a …

The Canterbury Music Festival recorded among the rarest later-’60s sunlight pop albums, Rainfall and Shine, which only 150 copies were pressed upon its initial 1968 release. The record mixed some good if innocuous first compositions from lead vocalist Roger Gernelle with much less impressive material provided for them by their …

Led by siblings Doug, Dennis, and Daryl Dragon, the Dragons’ jazzy Western world Coast psychedelic rock and roll fell somewhere within the soft waves of Surf’s Up-era Shore Boys, the smoky late-night chill of Booker T. & the MG’s, and the overall weirdness from the Doors. Each one of the …

From Dallas, the past due-’60s quintet Triste Janero played rather out-of-fashion easy listening vocal music that skirted both softest boundary of pop/rock and roll, as well as the breezy, Brazilian vocal pop-jazz by famous brands Sergio Mendes. Their 1969 one, “Rene de Marie,” was popular in Dallas, plus they produced …

Sunshine Pop clothing the brand new Hobbits was the studio room task of Queens, NY-born vocalist/songwriter Jimmy Curtiss, who have initial surfaced in 1959 seeing that a member from the doo wop combo the Enjays. He released his single debut, “Without You,” on United Performers in 1961. The label attemptedto …

Strawberry NOISY ALARMS occupies a peculiar market in the annals of ’60s rock and roll. Their name is really as popular to anyone who resided through the past due-’60s psychedelic period as that of nearly every group you might care to say, mostly from its sheer, foolish trippiness being a …

If everyone around the northwest side of Chicago who claims to get hung out using the Buckinghams throughout their heyday had faithfully bought almost all their releases, the rock group may have sold even more records compared to the Beatles. Popular sights while still in senior high school, the quintet …

Widely regarded as among the archetypal bubblegum artists from the past due ’60s, Tommy Roe cut some fairly decent rockers on the way, specifically early in his career — many displaying some fairly prominent Buddy Holly roots. Actually, Roe’s preliminary pop smash, 1962’s chart-topping “Sheila,” was quite similar to Holly’s …

During their short lifespan, the Package Tops gained a reputation among the preferred blue-eyed soul sets of the ’60s, even when their documented legacy wasn’t as large or consistent as, state, the Righteous Brothers or the Rascals. Today they’re appreciated not only because of their smashes “The Notice” and “Cry …

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 …