THE JELLY BEAN BANDITS - "Poor Precious Dreams" (1967)

 

This self-titled LP by The Jelly Bean Bandits album came out in 1967. I got my copy years later as a cutout at a Zody's Department Store back in about 1985. It cost me 25 cents.

One of the best bargains ever because despite their appearance, The Jelly Bean Bandits were a very good band. This song is just as good as a lot of stuff that came out in 1967, and considering how much awesome music came out that year, that's saying a lot!

THE JELLY BEAN BANDITS - "Poor Precious Dreams"

THE HAUNTED - "1 - 2 - 3" (1966)

 

The Haunted were one of the first rock bands from Canada to have any success. This LP was released in 1967.

 

This single proceeded the LP and came out in 1966. The first pressings all looked like this and had the band's name as being The Hunted.

Before this single was released, the label made the band change some of the lyrics that they thought were dirty.

THE HAUNTED - "1 - 2 - 3" 

MORNING DEW - "Young Man" (1970)

 

Honestly I had never heard of Morning Dew until they had a song that came on right after the Bakerloo song I posted up last night, but damn, straight outta Topeka, Kansas, these guys rocked just as good as a more well known band like Chocolate Watchband, and here's a song off of their self-titled 1970 release that proves it!!

I am now officially a fan! 

MORNING DEW - "Young Man" 

BAKERLOO - "Drivin' Bachwards" (1969)

 

Bakerloo was a hard rock blues band from the UK that was formerly known as The Bakerloo Blues Line.

They came out with this self-titled LP in 1969, and it turned out to be their only release. 

 

The members were David 'Clem' Clempson, Terry Poole, and Keith Baker, who went on to play in other bands like Humble Pie, Vinegar Joe, Judas Priest etc.

Here's a pretty damn cool song you wouldn't expect from a group of guys like his, a tune by Johann Sebastian Bach, re-arranged by Clempson and Poole.

BAKERLOO - "Drivin' Bachwards"

DIABOLUS - "1002 Nights" (1971)

 

If you didn't know better, and you heard this song for the first time by Diabolus, you might think that Jethro Tull and Traffic got together and recorded an album, at least that's what I thought

Diabolus was an English band but most of their time was spent in Germany, where they were signed by the Bellaphon label which produced this one LP of theirs in 1971.

They should have definitely been more popular and this song will show you why!

DIABOLUS - "1002 Nights" 

BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA - "Buzz Buzz" (1996)

 

Rich here, remembering when The Stray Cats introduced the MTV Generation to seedy rockabilly music in the early '80s. Well, turns out that in addition to rockabilly, guitarist Brian Setzer also had a love jones for Big Band music, and in the mid-'90s he created the Brian Setzer Orchestra, complete with a giant horn section, mini-skirted background singers, and Brian standing front and center crooning love songs while slinging mean guitar licks with abandon. 

 

But Brian was no mere Las Vegas Lounge Lizard -- although that was  definitely part of the persona he embraced with his big band. No, underneath the sophisticated blast of the horn section, Brian continued to tell tales from the underbelly of the streets, as evidenced in this love song to a needle. And I'll leave it to you to decide whether the needle in question refers to a heroin addiction, getting tattoos, or sitting in the executioner's chair awaiting for the needle of death -- or all three.
BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA - "Buzz Buzz"

THE MERMEN - "Songs Of The Cows" (1996)

 

The Mermen have got to be one of the most unique surf bands I've ever heard, and they are definitely the most sonic, and yet they somehow still retain a surf sound.

 Their 1996 album titled "Songs Of The Cows" is simply great, and these guys know how to keep it lively. If you've never heard their particular style of surf music, then you're in for a real treat! 

Think.... "a dacha where Yuri Zhivago, seeks refuge with his family during the Russian Revolution."

THE MERMEN - "Varykino Snow"