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l.lITTLE’if |S A (Cart.,*.™)
The Music Explosion
2. (Terry/Harris)
The Premiers
3. YOB REMLY-GOT ME (Dam,,) The Kinks
4. MOtT M0N|' ; /r 'iC (Bloom / Cordell / Gentry / James)
Tommy James & The Shondells
5. (Em Will ISMJE DRESS wf* EC80DGilTHSS18Uf (Long/Stevenson Si Blackwell/Marascalco)
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
6. COOL JEi" ' (Storball)
The Capitols
7. WHAT if 18 ¥81 f Bill Peel & The Rhondels
8. YOURSELF OlH Ernie Meresce
9. IF ¥00 Wfl (G uida / G uida / Royster)
Jimmy Soul "Little Bit O' Soul" licensed from Continental Communications Corp, "Farmer John" produced under license from Warner Bros. Records, Inc. "You Really Got Me" licensed from
Precision Records and Tapes Limited—a PRT UK Recording. "Mony Mony" and "Devil With A Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly" licensed from ABZMusic Corp “Cool Jerk"
courtesy of Ollie McLaughlin Productions. "What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am" licensed from Jerry Ross Productions, Inc. "Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)" by Ernie Maresca
under license from PolyGram Special Projects, a Division of PolyGram Records, Inc. "If You Wanna Be Happy" and "Quarter To Three" courtesy of Legrand Productions. "Peanut
Butter" licensed from Everest Record Group. "Bottle Of Wine" produced under license from Atlantic Recording Corp. "Land Of 1000 Dances" courtesy dpi Rampart Records. "La La La
La La" licensed from Dominion Entertainment, Inc, "La Bamba" and "I Fought The Law" licensed from Del-Fi Records. "California Sun" licensed from Celebrity Licensing, Inc
"Hot Pastrami" courtesy ol MCA Records, Inc. © 1988 Rhino Records lnc„ 10635 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025-4900
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(Maresca /Bogdany)
10. ITER (Barn urn / Cooper / Goldsmith / Smith)
The Morothons
11. (Paxton! The Firoholls
12. Cannibal t The Headhunters
13. (Holland / Dozier / Holland)
The Blendells
14. (Trad., Adapted by Valens)
Ritchie Mens
15. CJUtfW§ The Rivieres
16. Bobby Fuller Four
17. (Anderson / G uida / Royster / Barge)
U.S. Bonds
(Levy/ Glover)
(Curtis)
DIGITAL AUDIO
St's good to see some familiar
faces out there. Many of you
took last year's introductory course,
Frat Rock: The Greatest
RoekVRoll Party Tunes of All
Time. For those who didn't, let's
review the material: Frat rock refers
loosely to the kind of dance music
that was popular at college parties
of the mid-1960s. It might have
been played on the stereo hi-fi, or
performed live by a cookin' combo. In
either event, frat rock's impact on
the culture was profound: dance
frenzy took hold, inhibitions (and
sometimes togas) were shed, vast
quantities of malt beverage con¬
sumed, and the site of the revel
(usually a rec room or dorm base¬
ment) was reduced to a shambles. A
soundtrack for the sacking of Troy.
ur survey continues, with 18
units of full credit frat rock.
As before, much of the emphasis
here is on the classics—the
CapHolS' COOL JERK; the Kinks' ’YOU REALLY GOT ME"
MusExpk's "LITTLE BIT O' SOUL;'
Hie Rhderas' "CALIFORNIA SUN;
and RHchie Helens' timeless proto-
frat anthem, "LA BAMBA" from
1959.
tommy James and the ShondeHs (out of Niles, Ml)
went to the bank with "MONY
MONY" in mid-1968. TJ. came up
with the title of the song (their
fourth Top 10 hit) while gazing out
of his Manhattan apartment at the
huge Mutual Of New York insurance
company sign on B'way. Early
corporate rock.
1 odest in terms of exposure
l and chart position, but no
less popular on the suds-and-stomp
circuit was the Marathons' "PEANUT BUTTER'.'(Any similarities
between this cbewable mega-vitamin
and "Hully Gully" are slightly more
than coincidental, since the
Marathons were, in fact, the Olym¬
pics, who scored with said dance
smash early in 1960.)
Jimmy Soul (James
McCleese) managed to spin
off a prescription for conjugal con¬
tentment with "IF YOU WANNA BE
HAPPY" A calypso standard entitled
"Ugly Woman" may have inspired
this sock hop fave which managed to
make it to number one in '63. Sales
of Playboy didn't suffer, as very few
male animals went looking for a
less-than-Venus companion.
THE RIVIERAS
If slightly later vintage (late
'66), Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels' "DEVIL WITH THE
BLUE DRESS ON/GOOD GOLLY
MISS MOLLY" effects a super¬
charged song splice of (one each by)
Shorty Long and Little Richard.
Hf the Fireballs' "BOTTLE OF
WINE" and the Boh Fuller Four's "\ FOUGHT THE LAW" are
among the more taut, tough-grooved
examples of mid-Sixties party rock,
"FARMER JOHN" and "LA LA LA
LA LA" are among the loosest.
Recorded "live'' at Fullerton, CA's
Rhythm Room in 1964, the
Premiers' agrarian raveup and the
Blendells' glottal throwdown are
near irresistible inducements to
dance, drink, and carry on. Ernie Maresea's "SHOUT! SHOUT!
(KNOCK YOURSELF OUT)" is
another dorm floor evergreen (from
Spring '62) by the composer of
Dion's "The Wanderer" and his own
"Mary Jane (You Give Me a Pain in
the Brain)" Gary "(IS. "Bends' "QUARTER TO THREE" and Jimmy Soul's aphoristic "IF YOU WANNA
BE HAPPY" hail from roughly the
same period as Maresca's shoutfest;
both big noises were produced by
Frank Guida, out of Norfolk, VA.
| C* rom slightly further down-
lT beach (the Carolines), Bill DealG the Rhondeb kick up a
sandstorm of shaggin' with their
1969 update of the Tams' "WHAT
KIND OF FOOL.' While LA's Can¬ nibal and the Headhunters kick
the party madness into hully gully
overdrive with their terpsicorean term
paper "LAND OF 1000 DANCES"
(Spring '65 semester). They bestow
upon us some instructive words for
all present and future rockers: "Do
the Pony, like Bony Moroni"
the Dartelb" HOT
PASTRAMI" is a lean slab of
instrumental party rock (sliced off
Nat Kendricks' 1960 hit "Mashed
Potatoes, Part I"). These frat brats
know how to get their licks from one
of the first food hits to chew up the
charts in 1965. This track is bound
to unleash the party animal in us all
...so, DIG IT and DANCE!
-GENE SCULATTI, 1988 Gene Sculatti's books include
The Catalog of Cool (Warner Books) and San Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic
Music Trip (St. Martin's Press).
Produced for Compact Disc by Bill INGLOT
Compilation: RICHARD FOOS and
JAMES AUSTIN
Art Direction: DON BROWN
Design: MICHEUE LAURENCOT
Photos: THE MICHAEl OCHS ARCHIVES,
Venice, CA
Digital Prep and Transfers: Bill INGIOT
and KEN PERRY/K-Disc
®&©1988 Rhino Records Inc.
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BOBBY FULLER POOR
THE MUSIC El
JIMMY SOUl
9 IF YOU WANNA BE HAPPY
Jimmy Soul 10 PEANUT BUTTER
k The Marathons ^ 11 BOTTLE OF WINE 1A The Fireballs JIPV 12 LAND OF IP 1000 DANCES |j Cannibal & The ill Headhunters ■B 13 LA LA LA LA LA mB The Blendells W 14 LA BAMBA
Ritchie Valens Wf 15 CALIFORNIA SUN y The Rivieras f 16 I FOUGHT THE LAW
Bobby Fuller Four 17 QUARTER TO THREE
W LITTLE BIT O’SOUL 1 ^ f The Music Explosion f FARMER JOHN 2
The Premiers YOU REALLY GOT ME 3
The Kinks MONY MONY 4 gflSj
Tommy James & jj| The Shondells
DEVIL WITH A BLUE 5 gHM DRESS ON & GOOD gH
GOLLY MISS MOLLY Mitch Ryder & lBPre.1l§flF 'Hag
The Detroit Wheels cool jerk 6 mlMMysgl The Capitols I&KJRBhB
WHAT KIND OF FOOL 7 DO YOU THINK I AM
Bill Deal & The Rhondels i SHOUT! SHOUT! 8 k (KNOCK B YOURSELF OUT)
Ernie Maresca R2 75772
Track 1 licensed from Continental Communications Corp. Track 2 produced under license from Warner Bros. Records, Inc. Track 3 licensed from Precision
Records and Tapes Limited - a PRT UK Recording. Tracks 4 & 5 licensed from ABZ Music Corp. Track 6 courtesy of Ollie McLaughlin Productions. Track 7 licensed from Jerry Ross Productions, Inc.
Track 8 by Ernie Maresca under license from PolyGram Special Projects, a Division of PolyGram Records, Inc. Tracks 9 & 17 courtesy of Legrand Productions. Track 10 licensed
from Everest Record Group. Track 11 produced under license from Atlantic Recording Corp. Track 12 courtesy of Rampart Records. Track 13 aA
licensed from Dominion Entertainment, Inc. Tracks 14 & 16 licensed from Del-Fi Records. Track 15 licensed
from Celebrity Licensing, Inc. Track 18 courtesy of MCA Records, Inc.
® 1988 Rhino Records Inc.