The Mascots

The Mascots were a reasonably successful Swedish sixties group, issuing around twenty singles and two LPs between 1964 and 1968, and achieving the Swedish TOP with five of their 45s. Although they published a lot of their personal material, the majority of their result was incredibly imitative of English Invasion pop, plus they (like practically all Swedish functions of that time period) were unfamiliar towards the English-speaking globe. However, if you are on the search for light-weight, but sometimes wonderful, pseudo-Merseybeat, the Mascots produced some pretty pleasant (plus some incredibly awkward) songs along those lines. Specifically, the ultra-catchy, close-harmony quantity “Terms Enough to LET YOU KNOW” is definitely a gem from the genre. Since it produced #6 in Sweden in 1965 and was contained in the greatest and most broadly circulated compilation of Swedish 1960s rock and roll (Searchin’ for Shakes), it is the Mascots monitor non-Swedes are likely to know. Alas, non-e of their additional recordings had been up to the level, although “A Sad Boy” (another Swedish Best Tenner) and some other middle-1960s cuts had been reasonable mock Merseybeat. The 1966 solitary “I wish to Live” was evidence that they could easily get just a little tougher and weirder, and continues to be included on some compilations of uncommon “freakbeat, ” but this path wasn’t explored from the music group on other attempts. The Mascots’ understand of British (that they sang in specifically) was slighter than that of various other Swedish organizations, and this–combined with some corny Nordic folk-influenced Merseybeat on some early recordings, plus some boring middle-of-the-road pop-folk-rock on the past due 1960s releases–makes a compilation of their result erratic and hard to sit down through in its entirety.