’66 Sunset Strip
06.22.20
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:
The Ventures – “Kickstand” The Crunchendoes – “Butterfingers” (song written by Chuck Rio of “Tequila” fame) The Sons of Adam – “Feathered Fish” (given to the band by Arthur Lee of Love) The Sons of Adam – “Baby Show Me the World” (both Sons of Adam sides, Alamo Records) Sonny Villegas – “Help Me Help You” Sonny Villegas – “I Cry” (both Sonny discs, Runay label from Rhode Island run by Carl Raye aka Jerry Rae; Jerry would hook up with L.A. band Fenwyk and release a legendary psych LP) The Humane Society – “Eternal Prison” (Simi Valley group on rare New World Records, previously a Liberty Records 45 group with the ahead-of-its-time punker “Knock, Knock”) The Deepest Blue – “Somebody’s Girl” (Ontario group on the Blue-Fin label that also released The Ascots) Band of Wynand – “Day Time, Night Time” (Gemini label) The Dave Travis Extreme – “Last Night the Flowers Bloomed” (USP label, released with rare picture sleeve) Time of Your Life – “Ode to a Bad Dream” (Long Beach group) John English & the Lemon Drops – “Just Don’t Complain” (Preachers-related) The Palace Guard – “Greed” (Hawthorne group, house band at The Hullabaloo near Sunset & Vine) The Tracers – “Who Do You Love” (Sully label) The Bedpost Oracle – “The Break of Dawn” (City of L.A. group) The Preachers – “Stay Out of My World” (see: John English & the Lemon Drops) The Odyssey – “Little Boy, Little Girl” Lonnie & the Legends – “I Cried” (San Fernando Valley group) Midnight Snack – “Mr. Time” (Hawthorne group) The Ascots – “Summer Day” (Anaheim group, Blue-Fin label) His Majesty’s Coachmen – “I Don’t Want To See You” The Innkeepers – “A Man Can Tell” Apperson Jackrabbit – “That’s Why” The Lyrics – “Wait” (Originally from Carlsbad in San Diego County, moved to L.A.) The In-Sects – “Then You Came My Way” (Pomona/Fontana group) The Cindermen – “Think of Me”(Fresno group on Moonglow Records w/ house band gig at The Cinnamon Cinder… some had been in surf band JK & the Extensions previously) The Delicate Balance – “The Night is Almost Gone” The Tormenters – “She’s Gone” Chapter Six – “Fear” The Intercoms – “Unabridged, Unadulterated, Unextraordinary, Ordinary, Mediocre, Unoriginality Blues” The New Invaders – “Don’t Let Me Down” The Afro-Blues Quintet – “Viva Cepeda” The Afro-Blues Quintet – “In Crowd” Senor Soul – “Spooky” Senor Soul – “Don’t Lay That Funky Trip On Me” War – Cisco KidNOTES from “Fuzz, Flakes & Shakes” compiler Tony Sanchez…
Dave Travs Extreme were a band put together by Mastering Engineer and Singer/Songwriter Dave Travis. Dave started working at DCT Recoders in the mid-’60s. He is said to have cut as many as 20,000 records in his lifetime. His work did not always contain a means for identification but he is known to have marked “DT” on records he engineered. Travis also sang in Californian surf bands during the ’60s, including The Driftones who later became The Yellow Payges, a house band at The Hullabaloo. Dave Travis Extreme recorded “Shades of Blue” and “Last Night the Flowers Bloomed” in 1967. Dave Travis passed away in 2008 after over 40 years as a singer/songwriter and engineer.
The flip side of “Somebody’s Girl” by The Deepest Blue is “Pretty Little Thing,” a song covered later by The Tell Tale Hearts.
An interview with the drummer of The Cindermen is included here: https://www.opulentconceptions.com/2013/02/the-cindermen-interview-with-sam.html
“Cindermen” Go Go painting by Lori Schmitz, 1965
