Connie Smith
Miss Smith Goes To Nashville
1966
RCA 3530
Produced by Bob Ferguson
**** Recommend
Connie’s third album (and the first of three released in 1966).
1966
Freakout Guitars: Freakout!!! (LP) 1966
Freakout Guitars
Freakout!!!
Freakout!!!
Premier 9006
circa 1966
circa 1966
Recommended ****
Now we’re talking, all instrumental set, covers and originals, none of it really in that freakout style, instead cool sleepwalking numbers and the others more in a 1950s’ style, the latter with sax, likely not even the same band or recording date. Great stuff!!!
Dino, Desi, & Billy: Our Time’s Coming
Dino, Desi, & Billy
Our Time’s Coming
Reprise 6194
1966
Rating:**** (Recommended)
Second set from these inbred Hollywood brats, definitely their best, produced by Hazlewood, arranged by Strange, engineered by Bones Howe. Musicians include Don Randi, Al Casey…
Side one is great, the brats stealing from the Stones, the Beatles and the Beach Boys.
The flipside is a bit disappointing but features some highlights.
Almost-classic bubblegum set.
— Winch
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Bob Kuban & the In-Men: Look Out For the Cheater (Album) 1966
Bob Kuban & the In-Men
Look Out For the Cheater
Musicland Records 3500
Produced and Arranged by Mel Friedman
1966
Produced and Arranged by Mel Friedman
1966
Recommended ****
Mostly known for the title track that opens this sole album from this one-hit St. Louis outfit, the set doesn’t really begin until they get through that number, the album featuring several cuts that put the title track to shame, including some convincing covers of R&B classics, a pair of rocking versions of soundtrack themes (Virginia Wolfe and Batman), and perhaps the first version of Hazlewood’s “These Boots Were Made For Walking” told from the male point of view, all of this punched home with horns, guitar, organ and of course a driving rhythm. The sound is a bit of a throwback, as much R&B as 1966 garage rock, the band sounding like they’re taking their cues from Stax, JB, and Ike.
For the title track and some of the other more low-key cuts, Curtis Mayfield appears to be the main influence.
This is a varied set but it’s a worthwhile listen if you can find it. (Heck, the cover is almost worth the price of admission.)
—Winch (author of Kalamazoo: Growing Up Sideways in the 1970s and the two-part novel Junk Like That.)
Girl Group 1966
girl group
Classic sides
s e l e c t i v e
(selected by winch)
Classic sides
1966
“Bobby Is My Baby” (J. Bishop)
Barbara Mason (Philadelphia) Arctic (120B) 1966
“Sweet Talkin’ Guy” (Greenburg/Morris)
The Chiffons (New York) Laurie (3340A) 1966.
“Only When You’re Lonely” (Williams/Irwin/Schuster)
The Royalettes (Baltimore) MGM (13451B) 1966
Love (band) Essential
Essential LOVE
(90 Minute Tape)
“My Little Red Book” (Bacharach/David)
“Can’t Explain” (Lee/Echols/Fleckenstein)
“A Message to Pretty” (Arthur Lee)
“My Flash On You” (Lee)
“Emotions” (Lee)
“You I’ll Be Following” (Lee)
“Gazing” (Lee)
“Hey Joe” (Valenti)
“Signed D.C.” (Lee)
Love Elektra 4001 July 1966
cool Love cover:
“Signed D.C.”/”Hey Joe”
Dead Moon (Clackamas, Oregon) Live Evil 1990
“Revelation” (Lee, MacLean, Echols, Forssi)
“Stephanie Knows Who” (Lee)
“Orange Skies” (MacLean)
“Que Vida!” (Lee)
“Seven & Seven Is” (Lee)
“The Castle” (Lee)
“She Comes in Colors” (Lee)
Da Capo Elektra 4005 February 1967
“Alone Again Or” (MacLean)
“A House is Not a Motel” (Lee)
“The Daily Planet” (Lee)
“Maybe the People Would Be The Times or Between
Clark and Hilldale” (Lee)
“Live and Let Live” (Lee)
“Bummer in the Summer” (Lee)
Forever Changes Elektra 4013 January 1968
cool Love cover:
“Alone Again Or”
UFO (London) Light’s Out 1977
compiled by Winch (author of Kalamazoo: Growing Up Sideways in the 1970s and the two-part novel Junk Like That)
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Kimio Eto: Sound of the Koto (LP) 1966
Sound of the Koto
World Pacific WP-1439
Producer: Richard Bock
Producer: Richard Bock
1966
Rating:**** (Recommended)
Just Eto on the Koto but he fills the cuts with plenty of sounds, just the perfect amount actually, lots of sounds but enough space to allow the listener to breathe easy.
Obviously, this blind cat knew what he was doing. Very cool, interesting and enjoyable, highly recommended for fans of Japanese music.
— winch
(author of Kalamazoo: Growing Up Sideways in the 1970s)
The Wailers: Out of Our Tree (LP) 1966
The Wailers
Out of Our Tree
Etiquette 026
1966
Rating:***** (Good Shit)
Sixth album by this Tacoma outfit, their last for Etiquette, the band sporting their influences on their sleeves but delivering in their own raw style, laying down the foundation for punk rock, ripping through Memphis and Motown, Little Richard and the Beatles, slowing it down without any trouble, offering versions of “Summertime” and “Unchained Melody,” and really shining on a handful of originals.
The first side is solid, but the flipside is nothing short of killer. While Little Richard, the Animals, the Who, and the Stones appear to be influences, the Wailers’ own take on R&B had to have a huge influence on bands such as MC5. Classic NW garage rock.
— winch
(author of Kalamazoo: Growing Up Sideways in the 1970s)
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