Another obscure girl group covers a Jackie Deshannon song. Classic arrangement by Harold Battiste: The Cake-Baby That's Me. » Their managers got them on the Smothers Brothers show. Note the unorthodox performing style of Jeanette Jacobs (left):
Jim Weatherly (the tall singer) played quarterback for the Ole Miss football team in the early '60s. He later wrote "Midnight Train To Georgia".
What a great thread....makes up for much of the nonsense topics. Here is Barry and the Remains on Sullivan.
Okay, it's a latter day clip, but here is Ty Wagner doing the Back From the Grave favorite "I'm a No-COunt" with the Sloths of "Makin' Love" fame backing him up:
Here's some killer garage-rock from the TAMI show, featuring the headbanging, one-handed drummer, Moulty, it's The Barbarians:
Can't believe I forgot about this: A fascinating historical document -- a short film (produced by a local NY TV station) about The Magicians, a NYC band that seemed just on the verge of hitting it big, but never quite broke through. This film offer an extraordinary inside glimpse of a rock musician's lifestyle and concerns just before hippies and the psychedelic era -- much of the film details the band members being hassled for wearing long hair, and a clear but unmentioned subtext is the band's transition from Stonesish R&B to Dylanesque folk-rock. The Magicians-An Invitation to Cry »
Essentially the West Coast version of the Magicians film: This is a short film shot in 1967 when the band October Country was seeking a record deal. We were approached by Denis Hoffman who later that year backed Steven Spielberg in his 1st film called "Amblin" and asked if he could follow us around and film footage of us going to and from gigs. The life of a cover band who eventually got originals given to us by Michael Lloyd. We were working pretty steadily at that time. We worked with The Drifters, The Coasters, The Standells, The Sons of Champlin (Bill Champlin's band. And after we got signed, The Buffalo Spingfield, The Iron Butterfly, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Linda Rondstat, The Turtles (great bunch of guys), Gary Puckett and The Union Gap, The YoungBloods, The Boxtops, and a whole bunch of other folks. We DID get signed because of this film. It was shown to Len Levy, then President of Epic Records/New York. Epic Records was then part of CBS Records so we recorded the album "October Country" at CBS Records, Columbia Square at Sunset and Gower in Hollywood, California. About the same time we asked to perform the music for Steven Spielberg's "Amblin". Caryle, our female lead singer sang it.
