The Robbs

The Robbs — oldest sibling Dee Robb (guitar, vocals), Joe Robb (guitar, vocals), and youngest sibling Bruce Robb (keyboards, vocals) — began their lengthy careers within their hometown of Oconomowoc, WI (close to Milwaukee) being a teen-center pop group calling themselves Dee Robb & the Robbins. As Robby & the Robins, they documented “Surfer’s Lifestyle” for the Todd label, which includes since made an appearance on numerous browse compilations. Throughout a summer months tour, their guitarist was facing the draft plank, so the music group needed to shuffle the lineup and generate their cousin, Craig Robb (true name Craig Krampf) as an alternative on drums. The music group then changed brands towards the Robbs and soldiered on, playing gentle rock tranquility drenched play the vein from the Cowsills, the Monkees, or Paul Revere & the Raiders. Krampf as well as the three Robb brothers performed all over the Midwest, showing up as the starting act on expenses with the very best acts of your day. They were ultimately uncovered by music impresario Dick Clark, who acquired them perform at his Teenager World’s Good in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, the Robbs had been agreed upon to Mercury Information (the label that acquired, by then, agreed upon the four Cowsill brothers before falling the group after two singles) and documented their initial record, that was released in 1967. They made an appearance on TV’s Where in fact the Action Is certainly and, along with Buffalo Springfield, opened up for the Turtles. Clark afterwards asked the Robbs to become regulars on his Television show, so the music group transferred to California. There they truly became the support group for Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, Bobby Vinton, among others. The Robbs agreed upon with Atlantic for a couple singles. After that — with Shannon’s help — agreed upon with ABC’s Dunhill Information and transformed their name to Cherokee in the first ’70s. Like a country-rock clothing, they released one album, made by Steve Barri, which presented additional guest shows by previous Byrds Chris Hillman and Sneaky Pete Kleinow. Each person in the initial Robbs lineup eventually remaining the group until just Krampf continued to be. He discovered continual and stable employ like a program drummer, while Dee, Joe, and Bruce Robb, in the mean time, turned to executive and generating. They possess since become quite effective as the owner/providers of their personal Cherokee Studios, in Western Hollywood, CA, and Cherokee Ranch Studios, that was located following towards the Spahn Ranch in the ’60s, before shifting to Chatsworth, CA. The Robbs are award-winning makers/technicians of countless platinum performers, including Pole Stewart, John Cougar Mellencamp, Alice Cooper, and Steely Dan, to mention a few.