036 - Conformity to Society and the Right Track

One of the recurring themes of this podcast is the mystery of the mystery band. Many times studios were booked by teenagers who came in, recorded one or two songs, paid the engineer, and left. Often these bands broke up shortly thereafter. 45s were thrown away, and master tapes lost, save for the studio copy. But that copy usually just had the name of the group.

And so, forty years after the fact, there are many groups that are just names on a tape box. This time, we have something even more unusual. We know the name of the song, "Conformity to Society," but we don't know the name of the group -- let alone who was in it!

Also in this podcast we feature the return of Clover, and a gritty tune
Bee Gee Stan shines in the Soul Spotlight this time around with her song, "Front Page Love." Stop the presses!Remember -- you don't need an iPod to listen to a podcast. Just download it straight to your computer from this link!

Garage/Soul '66 Podcast #036 Conformity to Society and the Right Track

The Radio Star


This program we play:
???? - Conformity to Society
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 2

Clover - The Way She Smiles
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 1

Bee Gee Stans - Front Page Love
Ol' Virginia Soul, Part 2

The Right Track - You Disturb My Soul
Lost Souls, Vol. 2 - Garage and Psychedelic Rock from Arkansas and Beyond

035 - The Incorporates, the Wanted & Co

This program we have two mystery groups. Don't know who they are, or even quite where they came from. But we do have the recordings they left behind. The Wanted & Co. recorded in a studio in the midwest. There are some indication that they may have been from Ohio -- or perhaps Kentucky. We're not sure...

The Soul Spotlight shines on the second mystery band, the Incorporates. In this case, nothing is known about the group -- even where they came from. But their track's a killer.

We start and end the podcast with some known groups. The Escorts hailed from Richmond, VA, which is where they recorded in 1966 and 1967. The Dust were students from Arkansas State University. Their track "Sky Flight" comes from 1969, the tail-end of the psychedelic era.

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Garage/Soul '66 Podcast #035 The Incorporates, the Wanted & Co.

The Radio Star


This program we play:
The Escorts - My Only Love
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 2

The Wanted & Co. - Why
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 3

The Incorporates - Keep Her In the Groove
Ol' Virginia Soul, Part 2

Dust – Sky Flight
Lost Souls, Vol. 2 - Garage and Psychedelic Rock from Arkansas and Beyond

034 - Ida Sands and Dust

We start this edition of Garage/Soul '66 with the Flys. We don't know much about this group, save that they hailed from Washington, DC and cut a single track back in 1966. But it's a good one.

East Coast legend Lenis Guess returns, this time fronting a band that perfectly captured the East Coast Beach sound of the mid-60's. If you like Bill Deal and Rondells, you'll dig "Workin' for My Baby."

Miss Ida Sands makes a triumphant return to the Soul Spotlight with "You'll Lose a Good Thing." This 1967 recording had everything going for it -- save chart action. And after hearing it, you'll probably wonder why it didn't have that as well!

Dust was formed in 1969 from the dust of several groups we’ve featured on earlier episodes of GS66 (maybe that's where they got the name). Members came from the Blue and the Grey, the Purple Canteen, and the Tuesday Blues. The combination of all that talent produced some great psychodelic tracks. This show we feature one of them, with the heavy name "Through the Silk Keyhole." Far out!

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Garage/Soul '66 Podcast #034 Ida Sands and Dust

The Radio Star


This program we play:
Flys – The Way Things Are
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 2

Lenis Guess – Workin’ for My Baby
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 1

Ida Sands – You’ll Lose a Good Thig
Ol' Virginia Soul, Part 2

Dust – Through a Silk Keyhole
Lost Souls, Vol. 2 - Garage and Psychedelic Rock from Arkansas and Beyond

033 - The Clover and the Honey Bees

We start off with a rare track from Richmond, Virginia-based band the Clover. They recorded just two songs back in 1966, and this episode we play the "B" side of that lone 45 RPM.

Then we jump back to 1963 for a song by the Satellites. According to Arcania International's Brent Hosier (who researched and compiled the "Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things CD series),  the Satellites were heavily influenced by the Beatles. I don't know, though. In the track we play, "Next Boy" sounds more like a Who song to me.

And in an interesting juxtaposition, we feature the girl group Honey Bees in the Soul Spotlight singing "It Happened on a Tuesday" then follow it with a song from Tuesday's Blues. Guess things didn't work out so well!

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Garage/Soul '66 Podcast #033 Clover and the Honey Bees

The Radio Star


This program we play:

Clover -Remember
Aliens, Psychos and Wild Things, Vol. Fore

The Satellites - The Next Boy
Aliens, Psychos and Wild Things, Vol. 1

The Honey Bees - It Happened on a Tuesday
Ol' Virginia Soul, Vol. 1

The Tuesday Blues - Have You Ever Loved Somebody
Lost Souls, Vol. 2

032 - Sadie's Ways and the Hippie Queen

This time we have quite a selection of material. We start with Glennis Annette and the Confederates from Texas, circa 1968.

We follow them with one of the finest bands out of Virginia to almost make the big time (in my opinion) -- the Bosom Blues Band. Their acid-tinged tune "Hippie Queen" is pure psych. Hard to believe it's actually a group of teenagers! (and if you're fans of this track, we have it not only that track on the CD Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 1, but the Bosom Blues Band's entire album reissued on vinyl).

The amazing Elsie Strong steps into the Soul Spotlight, with her song "This is the Last Time." And we round things out with a song that was climbing up the charts, until a radio DJ listened to the lyrics closely and banned it from the air. The Esquires perform their ill-fated track, "Sadie's Ways."

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Garage/Soul '66 Podcast #032 Sadie's Ways and the Hippie Queen;

 - The Radio Star


The program we play:

Glennis Annette and the Confederates - You Better Find Your Way
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 4


The Bosom Blues Band
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 1


Elsie Strong - This is the Last Time
Ol' Virginia Soul, Part 2


The Esquires - Sadie's Ways
Lost Souls, Vol. 2 - Garage and Psychedelic Rock n' Roll from Arkansas

031 - Electric Sunshine and the Electrical Banana

A mixed bag of tunes this time around. We start with East Coast favorites the Swinging Machine, and a great song from 1967, "Look Out!"

Then we follow Virginia artist Dean Kohler on his continuing adventures. We've already featured his previous group the Satellites, and we pick up the story after Kohler was drafted in 1965. It spelled the end of the Satellites, but not Kohler's musical career. On the transport to Vietnam, he formed a new group, the Electrical Banana, and even managed to record a few songs in Hanoi while on tour! You'll hear one of them in this podcast.

And we check out Raw Soul from 1972. Dorsey shows up to blow sax on the record, keeping the energy level high (before the lead singer kicks him off). We finish with the Electric Sunshine, a remarkable band of nine-year-olds from Jonesboro, Arkansas.

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Garage/Soul '66 Podcast #031 Electric Sunshine and the Electrical Banana

The Radio Star


This program we play:

The Swinging Machine - Look Out
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 4


The Electrical Banana - She's Gone
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 1


Raw Soul w/Dorsey - Leave My Beat Alone
Ol' Virginia Soul, Part 3

Electric Sunshine - Stop!!
Lost Souls, Vol. 1 - Garage and Psychedelic Rock n' Roll from Arkansas

030 - Fragile Fruit and the Perpetuated Spirits of Turpentine

We have a couple of mystery bands on the show this time. They came, they recorded, they disappeared. We don't know who the members of the Perpetuated Spirits of Turpentine were, or who was in Shades, Ltd. But we do have two great songs from these bands that we share with you this time.

The Smacks return with another rocking cut from their 1966 45rpm. Lenis Guess is back in the Soul Spotlight with his very first recording from 1964, "For All You've Been."

The backup group the Idets (who sang with Ida Sands) step into the Soul Spotlight for a particularly funky version of "Doggie in the Window." And we end the show with the Modds from Missouri with a fuzzed out number, "Leave My House."

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Garage/Soul '66 Podcast #030 Fragile Fruit and the Perpetuated Spirits of Turpentine

The Radio Star


This program we play:

The Satellites - I'm a Double Naught Spy
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 1

Shades, Ltd. - Fragile Fruit
Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things, Vol. 2 

The Idets - Doggie in the Window
Ol' Virginia Soul, Part 2

The Modds - Leave My House
Lost Souls, Vol. 1 - Garage and Psychedelic Rock n' Roll from Arkansas