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Best remembered because of their folk-rock cult common “Stop! Get yourself a Solution,” the Clefs of Lavender Hill had been led by performers/guitarists Travis and Coventry Fairchild, the truth is Brooklyn-born sibling and sister Joseph and Lorraine Ximenes. Settling in Miami in 1966, the siblings recruited bassist Costs Moss and his sibling drummer Fred, past due of the neighborhood music group the Twilights (observed because of their lone one, 1965’s “She’s There”), and shortly issued their initial Clefs of Lavender Hill one, the Thames label launch “First Inform Me Why.” Nevertheless, Miami radio rather seized for the B-side, “Prevent! Get a Solution,” provided the song’s amazing Merseybeat-inspired strategy. The record demonstrated so well-known across South Florida that it had been licensed for nationwide release from the Day label, surging up to number 80 for the Billboard Best 100. The follow-up, “ONCE MORE,” increased to quantity 114 within the autumn, as well as the Clefs shut out 1966 with yet another solitary, “IT WILL NOT Be Very long.” The record didn’t chart, nevertheless, as do its successor, 1967’s “Gimme One JUSTIFICATION” — a full-length recording was finished, but Day thought we would cut its deficits, shelving the LP and shedding the Clefs from its roster. The Moss brothers quickly exited, as well as the Travis and Coventry continuing on with bassist Frank Milone and drummer Steve Zaricki before dissolving in 1968. “End! Get a Solution” was afterwards included on 1998’s Nuggets container set. The record finally noticed the light of time when the monitors from it, combined with the group’s lone one, had been released by Wounded Parrot this year 2010 beneath the name End! Get a Solution.
