The Fun and Games

The Fun And Games evolved out a Houston, Tx group, the Six Pents. Many members — Rock and roll Romano (electric guitar/vocals), Mike Cemo (drums), Paul Guillet (business lead electric guitar), and John T. Bonno (bass) — experienced played collectively in a higher school music group before joining causes with Richard Bain (vocals), D.J. Greer (piano), Sam Irwin (vocals/tambourine) and Carson Graham (drums). In 1964-1965, they truly became the house music group at Houston’s La Maison golf club, and documented at Andrus Studios in Houston. After their 1st solitary, the Six Pents became The Sixpentz, and authorized with Mainstream Information. The Sixpentz released two singles on Brent, a subsidiary of Mainstream (the label also released materials by Term, who became Euphoria once they relocated to L.A.). Ultimately, the Sixpentz discovered there was currently a band known as Sixpence, so, in order to avoid long term confusion, they made the decision another name modification was credited, and became the Fun And Video games Commission. Their initial one — “Somebody WILL NEED TO HAVE Lied” — was released under this name prior to the group finally made a decision to shorten their name towards the Fun And Video games. They ultimately came to the interest of Los Angeles-based vocalist/songwriter/manufacturer Gary Zekley, who, in the springtime of 1967, wrote a song known as “Yellowish Balloon” for Jan and Dean while creating a idea record of theirs, Save TO GET A Rainy Time. Zekley knew sunlight pop confection was a potential strike, therefore he re-recorded it — beneath the group name Yellowish Balloon — with many of program musicians, and professional/musician Don Grady (who got already been documenting for the Canterbury label along with his very own group, the Windupwatch Music group). This group’s soft-rock edition scored a high Thirty strike, while Jan and Dean’s edition failed to graph. Sensing he may find identical success using the Fun And Video games, Zekley helped them protected a fresh record agreement with Russ Regan’s UNI Information. Shortly before putting your signature on, John T. Bonno and D. J. Greer had been changed by Joe Dugan (keyboards) and Joe Romano, on bass. Joe Romano continued to play using a 440 with potential Jesus Christ Superstar professional/vocalist Ted Neeley. Zekley had written and created the Fun And Video games’ first solitary, and created their 1969 recording, Elephant Chocolate, co-writing seven from the twelve songs with songwriting partner Mitch Bottler (in 1969, Zekley and Bottler would also pencil “I’d Wait around A Mil Years”, a big success for the Lawn Origins). The Fun And Video games’ “Grooviest Lady In The Globe” climbed to 78 in the U.S. Best 100. In this same period, Regan revealed the group at an enormous music industry display at a golf club in LA, but — once onstage — vocalist Sam Irwin proceeded to insult lots of the UNI staffers. Soon after this apparent screen of poor view, Regan completely drawn the plug on advertising the music group. They dissolved not really too much later on. Rock Romano continued to create Doctor Rockit as well as the Sisters of Mercy. After he as well as the Sisters ultimately break up, and he continuing to front side Doctor Rockit. He also performed acoustic guitar and bass using the Sheetrockers and bass with Duck Soup, an Austin, Tx group fronted by previous Fun And Video games vocalist Irwin.