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’66 Sunset Strip

05.25.20

Take a trip to ’66 Sunset Strip as Dublab steps into the wayback machine and revisits 1960s Hollywood nightclubs like The Trip, Hullabaloo, Whisky a Go Go and Pandora’s Box.


Tracklist:

Brenda Holloway – “Echo” The Fender IV (pre-Sons of Adam) – “Malibu Run” Lalo Guerrero – “Marihuana Boogie” Little Julian Herrera – “Symbol of Heaven” Ritchie Valens – “Ooh! My Head” Chan Romero – “My Little Ruby” The Addrisi Brothers – “Cherrystone” Chick Carlton & the Majestics – “So You Want To Rock” The Sisters – “For Sentimental Reasons” Thee Midniters – “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love” The Romancers – “Love’s the Thing” Jan & Dean – “Dead Man’s Curve” Bruce & Terry – “Don’t Run Away” The Super Stocks – “Surfer’s Holiday” (vocal: Gary Usher, lead guitar: Dick Dale, backing vocals: Brian Wilson) The New Dimensions – “Bongo Surf” The Beach Boys – “Let Him Run Wild” Love – “You’re Mind and We Belong Together” The Factory – “Candy Cane Madness” Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band – “Plastic Factory” Johnnie Morisette – “Meet Me at the Twisting Place” Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band – “The Joker” (live at The Haunted House, Sunset & Vine) The Human Expression – “Calm Me Down” The Things To Come – “Tomorrow” Billy Preston – “Billy’s Groove” (live at The Trip, Sunset Strip) Felice Taylor – “I Feel Love Comin’ On” The Knickerbockers – “Can You Help Me” The Bobby Fuller Four – “Little Annie Lou” The Seeds – “Try to Understand” The Rising Sons – “Statesboro Blues” The Thomas Group – “Then It Begins” (“That Girl”… Marlo Thomas’ brothers) Tandyn Almer – “You Turn Me Around” The Parade – “She Sleeps Alone” The Sunshine Company – “It’s Sunday” Harper’s Bizarre – “Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear” (written by Randy Newman) Jesse Belvin – “Beware” Rene & Ray – “Queen of My Heart” The Jaguars – “Where Lovers Go” The Blendells – “Huggie’s Bunnies” Las Dilly Sisters – “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White” (soon-to-be regulars on “The Banana Splits” TV show)

photograph: John Lennon at home at Weybridge in 1967, reading an underground newspaper and sitting beneath “Safe as Milk” bumperstickers on his cabinet… these came inside the debut Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band album that year.

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