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Although packaged and promoted being a real group, the great Baggys were in fact an L.A. studio room project with the duo of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri. Sloan and Barri had written many first-rate (and second-rate) pop/rock and roll and folk-rock music in the middle-’60s, but had been at this time, as evidenced by the name of the group, performing browse and hot pole materials. The similarity of the great Baggys materials to Jan & Dean specifically should arrive as no real surprise, since Sloan and Barri not merely published some tunes for Jan and Dean, but additionally do some vocals on Jan & Dean information of the period. THE GREAT Baggys do one recording for Imperial in 1964, Inform ‘Em I’m Surfin’, in addition to three singles in 1964 and 1965 (including three non-LP tunes); there have been also several Fantastic Baggys albums released in South Africa. (Although there have been four Fantastic Baggys pictured around the sleeve of Inform ‘Em I’m Surfin’, both other guys had been just friends who have been not around the information.) The recording, both in songwriting and overall performance, was a fairly close but eventually derivative and substandard facsimile of circa 1964 Jan & Dean and (even more distantly) Beach Males information. THE GREAT Baggys stopped producing information in 1965, once the browse trend faded and Sloan and Barri had been interested in composing and singing much more serious and sophisticated materials.
