Reign Ghost - S/T

interesting & slightly weird record. The vox is a bit much for me at times. a bit too operatic... I like it when the male and felame voices pair up a bit more. Music is still pretty enjoyable. Some fuzzy guitar and nice keys. Guitarist Bob Bryden went on to play in Chiistmas. A band which i enjoy a lot more than this 1968 psych pop lp. Reign Ghost - S/T​It’s Great Shakes

The Chaparral Trio - Without You / Roxanne

Pretty crazy 45 here. Side A "With Out You" is a straight pop song. It sounds more like 64/65 than the heavy 1969 psych rocker that the B side "Roxanne" is. Doesn't even sound like the same band... Wish the B side went another 3 seconds of riffing guitar fuzz... B side RULES! ==== The Chaparral Trio - Without You ==== The Chaparral Trio - Roxanne

The Moon - Someday Girl

The Moon (4) ‎– Someday Girl / Mothers And Fathers

Label:
Imperial ‎– 66285

Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Promo

Country:
US

Released:
1968

Genre:
Rock, Pop

Style:
Psychedelic Rock

Tracklist
A Someday Girl
Written-By – Matthew Moore
2:42
B Mothers And Fathers
Written-By – Matthew Moore
2:05

Notes
"Audition Record" inscribed on label.

Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode (A Side Label): LB-2545
Barcode (B Side Label): LB-2544

The Moon - Someday Girl

Groundspeed ‎– L-12-East / In A Dream

Groundspeed ‎– L-12-East / In A Dream

Label:
Decca ‎– 32344

Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Promo

Country:
US

Released: ?

Genre:
Rock

Style:
Psychedelic Rock

Tracklist
A In A Dream 3:10
B L-12-East 3:30


Groundspeed - L-12-East

Groundspeed - In A Dream

The Mopptops - Our Lives

Heavy fuzz rocker from 1968? Sounds a bit later to me, maybe '72-ish.... Either way, it's a killer track w/ a message that still holds true today. Were these guys from Hawaii?
The weather here on the East Coast has been down right brutal of late so wherever you are reading this i hope you stay cool in more ways than one.... Prost!

The Mopptops - Our Lives

Illinois Speed Press ‎– Get In The Wind (Vocal / Instrumental)

I don't know why this band doesn't get more love...?!? Heavy fuzz guitars and good strong vox make this a keeper for me. From 1968. Love the out of key guitar at the end of the solo. Almost as heavy as what Blue Cheer or Iron Butterfly were doing at the time yet no one cares about this band all that much. I guess the rest of the stuff isn't as heavy but it's still solid. Anyway here's the 45 w/ the Instrumental version for this that need that....

Illinois Speed Press - Get In The Wind - Vocal

Illinois Speed Press - Get In The Wind - Instrumental

Snow - Song Of The Sirens

A few weeks ago I posted a 45 by Snow here: This is an album cut from the self titled album on E pic records from 1968. This is a pretty heavy, dare i say doom-ish track for 1968. Maybe proto-doom? I mean Black Sabbath is a few years away and I can't think go too many bands that were playing this slow and doom like. Maybe Iron Butterfly or Blue Cheer, but at any rate this is a cool heavy track on an otherwise fairly light affair, that only hints at psych rock here and there, mostly playing the pop angle.

Snow - Song Of The Sirens

Snow - Caterpillar

A little pop psych nugget from 1968 by Snow. Sounds like these guys must have heard "Sgt. Peppers" and "Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn" smoked some weed and took it from there. There's a cool little fuzzy guitar riff sort of hidden in the back that i wish was blazing instead of hiding, but i hear it.

Snow - Caterillar

The Beautiful Daze - Part 1 & Part 2

Comped a million times. As blown out and fuzzy as it gets. It never gets old.

The Beautiful Daze - Part 1 & Part 2

The-Xtreems - Facts Of Life

Another long time want crossed off list. I've seen this listed as 1966, 1968 & 1969.... Fuzz,wha wha & snotty lyrics...

The Xtreems - Facts Of Life

Troy Shondell - Head Man

Fuzzy & funky slow cookin' country fried sleazy rocker from one time 50's / 60's rockabilly teen idle Troy Shondell. Whew....!

Troy's Wiki:

Troy Shondell (born Gary Shelton,[1] May 14, 1940,[2] Fort Wayne, Indiana[1]) is an American vocalist, who achieved a modicum of fame and recognition in the early 1960s. He became a transatlantic one-hit wonder, by releasing a single that made the record charts in both the US and the UK.[3][4] The song, "This Time" (or sometimes billed as "This Time (We're Really Breaking Up)" sold over one million records, earning gold disc status.[5] In a single year, sales were over three million copies.[1]

Biography[edit]
Shondell was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and educated at Valparaiso and Indiana universities. He wrote his first song at age 14, which was recorded by Little Anthony & The Imperials. Shondell also learned to play five musical instruments.[5] His professional music career started as a teenager. Mercury Records released his first single, "My Hero", from The Chocolate Soldier, which he recorded in 1958 under his real name, Gary Shelton.[1]

He followed the next year with "Kissin' at the Drive-In", a rockabilly song that went on to become a drive-in theater standard. Shondell was on his way, at least in the Midwest. Chicago's Brass Rail, a major nightclub that usually hosted jazz and blues acts, brought him in for its first foray into rock and roll. The successful gig stretched to 16 weeks.[1] In 1959, Mark Records released "The Trance" and "Goodbye Little Darlin'". These sold well in the Midwest and a few other areas, but neither made it into the Top 40 of the national Billboard record chart. The singer cited his father as a major influence, among others. A song Shondell wrote about his father's death in 1960 from a heart attack, "Still Loving You", became a country hit when it was recorded by Bob Luman. Shondell's father's demise caused his career to falter, and he briefly returned to help run the family business.[1]

In April 1961, he recorded "This Time". The record was released during the last week in June on the tiny Gaye label and picked up by the small Los Angeles Goldcrest label, selling ten thousand copies during the first week. Six weeks after being released and played in Chicago, Shondell flew to Los Angeles and signed with Liberty Records. It finally hit the Billboard charts the first week of September, and landed in the Top 10 four weeks later, peaking at number six and staying in the charts for a total of sixteen weeks.[1][3] The track reached no. 22 in the UK Singles Chart at the end of that year.[4]

"Tears From An Angel" was his follow-up recording, released in March 1962. No further chart action was forthcoming, and Shondell quietly slipped away from the music industry the following year, despite his third single "Na-Ne-No", being produced by Phil Spector. However, in 1963, Tommy Jackson changed the name of his high school band from "Tom and the Tornados" to "The Shondells" in honor of Shondell (one of his musical idols).[1] Jackson became "Tommy James" and international fame followed for the act. Chicago band The Ides of March originally named themselves The Shon-dells, also in tribute to Troy. Shortly before their debut single, "You Wouldn't Listen" was released, the label found out that James had been using the name first, so they were forced to change it. In 1968, Shondell became a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville, Tennessee, and the first recording artist for TRX Records, a branch of Hickory Records, for whom Shondell recorded some gramophone record discs until 1969, when he went into the music publishing field. In October 1969, Shondell was appointed as Assistant Regional Director for ASCAP's Southern Regional Office in Nashville.[5]

In 2001, Shondell still performed at shows and other events. Along with Jimmy Clanton, Ronnie Dove, and Ray Peterson, Shondell was a member of the Masters of Rock 'n' Roll.[1] On October 2, 2007, Shondell traveled to Collins, Mississippi, to deliver a musical tribute to his fallen rock and roll colleague Dale Houston, who, with musical partner Grace Broussard, had reached no. 1 in 1963 with "I'm Leaving It Up to You" as the musical duo Dale & Grace.


Troy Shondell - Head Man

Ike And Tina And The Ikettes - So Fine - So Blue Over You

Pickins have been slim around here for a while. i did get that twilights 45 a bit back but not much else of late. But i got this little 45 yesterday for 50 cents. Not a rare thing really but i nice addition to the Ike & Tina collection. This is from 1968 but sounds like 1964 to me.

Ike And Tina And The Ikettes - So Fine

Ike And Tina And The Ikettes - So Blue Over You

The Chevelles - The Gallop

Another well played flea market find. The Chevelles doing The Gallop on the Flaming Arrow record label from 1968. It's a funky little intrumental with a grooving bass line and funky horns. Not bad for 25 cents...

The Chevelles - The Gallop

Tex Williams - Smoke, Smoke, Somke - '68

Tex Williams with a 1968 take of his famous tune Smoke, Smoke, Smoke.... On the Boone records label. I've been trying to get my wife to quit for years. I hate it.

Tex Williams - Smoke, Smoke, Somke - '68

Arch Of Triumph - My Year Is A Day

Gloomy pop psych from 1968 on the Date records label. I don't know anything about the group "Arch Of Triumph" but this sounds a bit like early Bee Gees and has a nice organ solo. Yeah, the 45 is a bit rough but i think i paid a quater for it.... Whatev's.

Arch Of Triumph - My Year Is A Day

John Hartford - The Category Stomp

Sticking w/ the weirder side of things today w/ The Category Stomp from Mr. John Hartford. I'm not familiar w/ and don't know much about John Hartford but this song is pretty damn weird and awesome. It's some hillbilly bluegrass psychedelic hybrid complete w/ backwards guitar solo. Seems Mr. Hartford was taking the piss out of the whole "psych" thing in the year 1968....? Intentional or not, it rules. Seems from what i've heard most of Mr. Hartford's other material is a bit more on the "standard" bluegrass side.

Here is a bit of info from wiki:

John Cowan Hartford (December 30, 1937 – June 4, 2001) was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore. Hartford performed with a variety of ensembles throughout his career, and is perhaps best known for his solo performances where he would interchange the guitar, banjo, and fiddle from song to song. He also invented his own shuffle tap dance move, and clogged on an amplified piece of plywood while he played and sang.

read the rest >HERE;

John Hartford - The Category Stomp

Nova's Nine - Pain

Nova's Nine from Statesville, North Carolina.

The band formed from Gary Brown's earlier band, Creations, and the Mann brothers', Firebirds. Ultimately they became students of Huxley and changed their name to Brave New World. As Nova's Nine, they recorded "Pain" in 1968 on Heritage Records, later picked up by ABC.

For a nice little "pain" story check out Echo's In The Wind.

I see this tagged as Northern Soul (must be the horns?) but it has a Garage rock feel to me.... Love that organ in the background.

As with many songs from the era, it is way too short and man, it sure woulda been cool if they threw a fuzz guitar solo in there.

Any way, cool tune. Check it out.

Nova's Nine - Pain

Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty - I'm Flying Home

Merrell Wayne Fankhauser is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU.

In 1960 he joined a local band called The Impacts as lead guitarist. Their Ventures-influenced sound developed a strong following at the start of the surfing scene. In 1962 they recorded an album which was later released, without the band's knowledge, by Del-Fi Records, and which included a tune "Wipe Out" which Fankhauser suggests later provided the basis of the hit by the Surfaris.

Fankhauser left the band and moved to Lancaster, California. There he met Jeff Cotton (later of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band), and in 1964 they formed The Exiles. The band - which also included John "Drumbo" French - had some success but broke up. Fankhauser moved back to the coast, formed a new band, Merrell and the Xiles, and had a minor hit with "Tomorrow's Girl" in 1967. An album followed which included old Exiles songs and newer psych folk material. For the album the band was credited as Fapardokly, taking its name from the surnames of the original members - Fankhauser, Dan Parrish, Bill Dodd and Dick Lee. Despite its later cult acclaim, the album was not a success. Fankhauser and Dodd then formed another, more overtly psychedelic, band with Jack Jordan and Larry Meyers, naming it HMS Bounty. They won a recording deal with Uni Records, and their self-titled album was released in 1968, followed by the single "Tampa Run". However, success was again thwarted, by personal and record company problems and the band split up.

Reuniting with Jeff Cotton in 1970, Fankhauser then formed the group MU. In 1971 their first album was released and became a radio hit. Increasingly fascinated by legends of the lost continent of Mu, Fankhauser then relocated to the Hawaiian island of Maui in Feb. 1973. A second MU album, without Cotton, was recorded in 1974, but not released until the 1980s. Fankhauser then recorded a solo album, "Maui", issued in 1976.

Fankhauser continued to record, occasionally with friends including John Cipollina and more recently Ed Cassidy of Spirit, as well as producing new surf albums credited to The Impacts.

I just pulled this out of a box of junk 45's. It's a little played w/ some snap, crackle & pop but a pretty great little psychedelic nugget. Very happy to have found it. Enjoy.

Groovy baby....

Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty - I'm Flying Home

Clifton White & His Royal Knights - The Warm Up A & B

Great Louisiana soul quakin' booty shakin' dance number by Clifton White & His Royal Knights from 1968 on the Anla label. Info was scarce on Mr. White & his Royal Knights but this is a great little number that brings you straight back to another time in a smokey little dive bar with a few coctails and some foxy momma's dancing it up.... Dig it.

Clifton White & His Royal Knights - The Warm Up - A

Clifton White & His Royal Knights - The Warm Up - B

The Detroit Night Riders - Getting Funky - Night Time In The Ghetto

I'm always down with songs about getting funky and the ghetto. These 2 are no exception. 2 Killer funk cuts by The Detroit Night Riders. Even that group name is cool. I hear this is from 1968...? but could find little else out about The Detroit Night Riders... The A side is a raw instrumental that's pretty amateurish, which adds to the funk if you ask me. Flip is a cool and funky vocal. Cool 45.

The Detroit Night Riders - Getting Funky

The Detroit Night Riders - Night Time In The Ghetto