Contest winners rode on a train to the coastal town of Del Mar, California, which had been renamed "Clarksville" for the day by the town's mayor.
No part of this website or the articles published here may be reproduced or transmitted in any from or by any means, without prior permission from the author.In the week leading up to the debut of The Monkees television series on NBC, Micky, Davy, Mike, and Peter took part in a cross country promotional tour. Los Angeles radio station KHJ staged perhaps the most ambitious event for the group on September 11, 1966. Please contact me at if you can loan or donate original materials Archives ArchivesĬopyright © Chris Bishop, 2022, except where noted otherwise. Please consider donating archival materials such as photos, records, news clippings, scrapbooks or other material from the '60s.
I am dedicated to making this site a center for research about '60s music scenes. Terry Williams on The Bad Seeds of northern Kentucky.If you have information on a band featured here, please let me know and I will update the site and credit you accordingly. All entries can be updated, corrected and expanded. Search site is a work in progress on 1960s garage rock bands. Check it to see more photos and updates on the band. Source: Info for this story and the photo at top are taken from the Bassmen’s site. Note, this is not the same Candy Store Prophets led by Boyce and Hart who wrote and recorded the backing tracks for all the early songs of the Monkees. They renamed the band the Candystore Prophets and released one very fine Beatles-esque 45 on Andy Anderson’s Cougar label of Jackson, Mississippi, “The Time of Day” b/w “You’re a Teaser” (both written by Jamie Grant). The single garnered the Bassmen appearances at shows produced by local DJs Papa Don Schroeder and Duke Rumore, and the band toured colleges in the area as well.Īt the start of college in 1966, singer Charlie Feldman, bassist Mike Easter and drummer Tom Allison found new members Jamie Grant and Tommy Johnson. Van Santte, perhaps a fictitious name as it doesn’t match any of the band members. Over the next year they added Charlie Feldman as lead singer and Vaughn Rives on rhythm guitar, and Steve Gilmer replaced Butterworth on keyboards.īy 1965 they had changed their name to the Bassmen, and they went into Ed Boutwell’s studio in English Village to record their 45, “I Need You” / “Leigh Anne”. Original members were Rob Hackney guitar, Chuck Butterworth keyboards, Mike Easter on bass and Tom Allison on drums. The Bassmen originally formed as the Church Keys in 1962 while in the ninth grade in Birmingham. The Bassmen have the very first 45 released on the Vaughn-Ltd label, the excellent original song “I Need You”. The Church Keys (Bassmen) playing live in Birmingham 1963
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