’66 Sunset Strip
05.25.26
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 Piltdown Men (Plas Johnson) – Brontosaurus Stomp The Flares – Huckle-Buck Paul Williams – The Huckle-Buck Barry Young – 9th Street West The Real Don Steele – Tina Delgado is Alive The Scuzzies with The Vibrants* – Dave Hull, The Hullabalooer Paul Revere & the Raiders – Swingy Goofy Grape – Howdee The Tigers – GeeTO Tiger The Human Jungle – Gorilla Milk The Familiars – Go Go Hula Hoop Batman Record – It’s the Batman Frank Gorshin – The Riddler Ted Cassidy as Lurch of TV’s Addams Family – The Lurch Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart – Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart – The Ambushers Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart – I’ll Blow You a Kiss in the Wind The Cadets – Stranded in the Jungle The Olympics – Do the Philly Dog The Grains of Sand – That’s When Happiness Began Darlene Love/The Blossoms – That’s When the Tears Start Fenwyk – I’m Spinning The Hollywood Argyles – You’re Ruining My Gladness The Valentinos – Lookin’ for a Love (w/ Bobby Womack, produced by Sam Cooke) Sam Cooke – Good Times Dobie Gray – (Out of Sight) Out on the Floor Nilsson – Everybody’s Talkin’ Warren Zevon – Tule’s Blues Cher – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) The Raymonde Singers Etcetera – You’d Better Sit Down, Kids Pebbles and Bamm Bamm of The Flintstones – Open Up Your Heart Hair (Broadway Cast) – The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In) Woodstock Audience During Rainstorm – Let the Sunshine In The Fifth Dimension – Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In Woodstock Audience During Rainstorm – Let the Sunshine In Easy Listening versions of “Good Morning Starshine” from “Hair” (background music during outro)*The Vibrants may very well be the otherwise un-recorded house band at the Long Beach outlet of The Cinnamon Cinder. They are a mystery, but described in loving terms by the Long Beach locals on the “Long Beach Special Episode, Part 1” from 2/25/19. Should there be any other recordings by these “Cinnamon Cinder” Vibrants, please let host Domenic Priore know at itsboss9@aol.com
’66 SUNSET STRIP host Domenic Priore (@ Malibu Pier)
Today’s Guest: Becky Ebenkamp (@ Johnnie’s Coffee Shop, Fairfax & Wilshire), host of “Bubblegum & Other Delights” on dublab
Plas Johnson (“Brontosaurus Stomp”)
The Flares lineup for “Footstompin'” and “Huckle-Buck” was (to the best of our knowledge) Vince Weaver, Aaron Collins, Thomas Miller, George Hollis and possibly Willie Davis or Will “Dub” Jones. Other members from around this time included Robbie Robinson, Eddie King, Beverly Harris and Patience Valentine. Davis, Jones and Collins had previously been in The Cadets (“Stranded in the Jungle”), see below.
Paul Williams (original version of “The Huckle-Buck”)
Ad for “9th Street West”
Moments with The Real Don Steele, including The Doors on “Boss City” and art by Michael Dormer
Ad for The Hullabaloo (near the corner of Sunset & Vine), Dave Hull upper right with Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones
Goofy Grape and his gang
The Tigers’ 45 sleeve
“Gorilla Milk” by The Human Jungle was on the same label as The Count V (“Psychotic Reaction”), Brenton Wood (“Gimme a Little Sign”) and Senor Soul (“Pata Pata”)
Boyce & Hart appear at “The Cosmos Cotillion,” a fake nightclub in outer space featured on “Bewitched”
The Cadets were Aaron Collins, Lloyd McGraw, Pete Fox, Prentice Moreland, Will “Dub” Jones, Willie Davis
The Olympics were Walter Ward, Eddie Lewis, Charles Fizer, Walter Hammond and Melvin King
The Grains of Sand (from Lomita)
The Valentinos were Bobby Womack, Cecil Womack, Curtis Womack, Harry Womack, Friendly Womack Jr.
Fenwyk (from Arcadia), best known for “Mindrocker” which became a compilation series title later on
Dobie Gray in the movie “Out of Sight”
Harry Nilsson in London, shooting a promotional film for “Everybody’s Talkin'”
Warren Zevon 11/17/1969, around the time of his “Wanted: Dead or Alive” LP
Pebbles and Bamm Bamm sing “Open Up Your Heart (and Let the Sun Shine In)” on The Flintstones
The Broadway cast of “Hair,” 1968
Writers Gerome Ragni, Galt MacDermot (music) and James Rado on the set of “Hair,” 1968
The Fifth Dimension (45 sleeve): Lamont McLemore, Marilyn McCoo, Florence LaRue, Ronald Townson, Billy Davis Jr.
Crowd at Woodstock, “singing in the rain”
