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l.lITTLE’if |S A (Cart.,*.™)

The Music Explosion

2. (Terry/Harris)

The Premiers

3. YOB REMLY-GOT ME (Dam,,) The Kinks

4. MOtT M0N|' ; /r 'iC (Bloom / Cordell / Gentry / James)

Tommy James & The Shondells

5. (Em Will ISMJE DRESS wf* EC80DGilTHSS18Uf (Long/Stevenson Si Blackwell/Marascalco)

Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels

6. COOL JEi" ' (Storball)

The Capitols

7. WHAT if 18 ¥81 f Bill Peel & The Rhondels

8. YOURSELF OlH Ernie Meresce

9. IF ¥00 Wfl (G uida / G uida / Royster)

Jimmy Soul "Little Bit O' Soul" licensed from Continental Communications Corp, "Farmer John" produced under license from Warner Bros. Records, Inc. "You Really Got Me" licensed from

Precision Records and Tapes Limited—a PRT UK Recording. "Mony Mony" and "Devil With A Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly" licensed from ABZMusic Corp “Cool Jerk"

courtesy of Ollie McLaughlin Productions. "What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am" licensed from Jerry Ross Productions, Inc. "Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)" by Ernie Maresca

under license from PolyGram Special Projects, a Division of PolyGram Records, Inc. "If You Wanna Be Happy" and "Quarter To Three" courtesy of Legrand Productions. "Peanut

Butter" licensed from Everest Record Group. "Bottle Of Wine" produced under license from Atlantic Recording Corp. "Land Of 1000 Dances" courtesy dpi Rampart Records. "La La La

La La" licensed from Dominion Entertainment, Inc, "La Bamba" and "I Fought The Law" licensed from Del-Fi Records. "California Sun" licensed from Celebrity Licensing, Inc

"Hot Pastrami" courtesy ol MCA Records, Inc. © 1988 Rhino Records lnc„ 10635 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025-4900

(Whitley)

(Maresca /Bogdany)

10. ITER (Barn urn / Cooper / Goldsmith / Smith)

The Morothons

11. (Paxton! The Firoholls

12. Cannibal t The Headhunters

13. (Holland / Dozier / Holland)

The Blendells

14. (Trad., Adapted by Valens)

Ritchie Mens

15. CJUtfW§ The Rivieres

16. Bobby Fuller Four

17. (Anderson / G uida / Royster / Barge)

U.S. Bonds

(Levy/ Glover)

(Curtis)

DIGITAL AUDIO

St's good to see some familiar

faces out there. Many of you

took last year's introductory course,

Frat Rock: The Greatest

RoekVRoll Party Tunes of All

Time. For those who didn't, let's

review the material: Frat rock refers

loosely to the kind of dance music

that was popular at college parties

of the mid-1960s. It might have

been played on the stereo hi-fi, or

performed live by a cookin' combo. In

either event, frat rock's impact on

the culture was profound: dance

frenzy took hold, inhibitions (and

sometimes togas) were shed, vast

quantities of malt beverage con¬

sumed, and the site of the revel

(usually a rec room or dorm base¬

ment) was reduced to a shambles. A

soundtrack for the sacking of Troy.

ur survey continues, with 18

units of full credit frat rock.

As before, much of the emphasis

here is on the classics—the

CapHolS' COOL JERK; the Kinks' ’YOU REALLY GOT ME"

MusExpk's "LITTLE BIT O' SOUL;'

Hie Rhderas' "CALIFORNIA SUN;

and RHchie Helens' timeless proto-

frat anthem, "LA BAMBA" from

1959.

tommy James and the ShondeHs (out of Niles, Ml)

went to the bank with "MONY

MONY" in mid-1968. TJ. came up

with the title of the song (their

fourth Top 10 hit) while gazing out

of his Manhattan apartment at the

huge Mutual Of New York insurance

company sign on B'way. Early

corporate rock.

1 odest in terms of exposure

l and chart position, but no

less popular on the suds-and-stomp

circuit was the Marathons' "PEANUT BUTTER'.'(Any similarities

between this cbewable mega-vitamin

and "Hully Gully" are slightly more

than coincidental, since the

Marathons were, in fact, the Olym¬

pics, who scored with said dance

smash early in 1960.)

Jimmy Soul (James

McCleese) managed to spin

off a prescription for conjugal con¬

tentment with "IF YOU WANNA BE

HAPPY" A calypso standard entitled

"Ugly Woman" may have inspired

this sock hop fave which managed to

make it to number one in '63. Sales

of Playboy didn't suffer, as very few

male animals went looking for a

less-than-Venus companion.

THE RIVIERAS

If slightly later vintage (late

'66), Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels' "DEVIL WITH THE

BLUE DRESS ON/GOOD GOLLY

MISS MOLLY" effects a super¬

charged song splice of (one each by)

Shorty Long and Little Richard.

Hf the Fireballs' "BOTTLE OF

WINE" and the Boh Fuller Four's "\ FOUGHT THE LAW" are

among the more taut, tough-grooved

examples of mid-Sixties party rock,

"FARMER JOHN" and "LA LA LA

LA LA" are among the loosest.

Recorded "live'' at Fullerton, CA's

Rhythm Room in 1964, the

Premiers' agrarian raveup and the

Blendells' glottal throwdown are

near irresistible inducements to

dance, drink, and carry on. Ernie Maresea's "SHOUT! SHOUT!

(KNOCK YOURSELF OUT)" is

another dorm floor evergreen (from

Spring '62) by the composer of

Dion's "The Wanderer" and his own

"Mary Jane (You Give Me a Pain in

the Brain)" Gary "(IS. "Bends' "QUARTER TO THREE" and Jimmy Soul's aphoristic "IF YOU WANNA

BE HAPPY" hail from roughly the

same period as Maresca's shoutfest;

both big noises were produced by

Frank Guida, out of Norfolk, VA.

| C* rom slightly further down-

lT beach (the Carolines), Bill DealG the Rhondeb kick up a

sandstorm of shaggin' with their

1969 update of the Tams' "WHAT

KIND OF FOOL.' While LA's Can¬ nibal and the Headhunters kick

the party madness into hully gully

overdrive with their terpsicorean term

paper "LAND OF 1000 DANCES"

(Spring '65 semester). They bestow

upon us some instructive words for

all present and future rockers: "Do

the Pony, like Bony Moroni"

the Dartelb" HOT

PASTRAMI" is a lean slab of

instrumental party rock (sliced off

Nat Kendricks' 1960 hit "Mashed

Potatoes, Part I"). These frat brats

know how to get their licks from one

of the first food hits to chew up the

charts in 1965. This track is bound

to unleash the party animal in us all

...so, DIG IT and DANCE!

-GENE SCULATTI, 1988 Gene Sculatti's books include

The Catalog of Cool (Warner Books) and San Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic

Music Trip (St. Martin's Press).

Produced for Compact Disc by Bill INGLOT

Compilation: RICHARD FOOS and

JAMES AUSTIN

Art Direction: DON BROWN

Design: MICHEUE LAURENCOT

Photos: THE MICHAEl OCHS ARCHIVES,

Venice, CA

Digital Prep and Transfers: Bill INGIOT

and KEN PERRY/K-Disc

®&©1988 Rhino Records Inc.

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THE MUSIC El

JIMMY SOUl

9 IF YOU WANNA BE HAPPY

Jimmy Soul 10 PEANUT BUTTER

k The Marathons ^ 11 BOTTLE OF WINE 1A The Fireballs JIPV 12 LAND OF IP 1000 DANCES |j Cannibal & The ill Headhunters ■B 13 LA LA LA LA LA mB The Blendells W 14 LA BAMBA

Ritchie Valens Wf 15 CALIFORNIA SUN y The Rivieras f 16 I FOUGHT THE LAW

Bobby Fuller Four 17 QUARTER TO THREE

W LITTLE BIT O’SOUL 1 ^ f The Music Explosion f FARMER JOHN 2

The Premiers YOU REALLY GOT ME 3

The Kinks MONY MONY 4 gflSj

Tommy James & jj| The Shondells

DEVIL WITH A BLUE 5 gHM DRESS ON & GOOD gH

GOLLY MISS MOLLY Mitch Ryder & lBPre.1l§flF 'Hag

The Detroit Wheels cool jerk 6 mlMMysgl The Capitols I&KJRBhB

WHAT KIND OF FOOL 7 DO YOU THINK I AM

Bill Deal & The Rhondels i SHOUT! SHOUT! 8 k (KNOCK B YOURSELF OUT)

Ernie Maresca R2 75772

Track 1 licensed from Continental Communications Corp. Track 2 produced under license from Warner Bros. Records, Inc. Track 3 licensed from Precision

Records and Tapes Limited - a PRT UK Recording. Tracks 4 & 5 licensed from ABZ Music Corp. Track 6 courtesy of Ollie McLaughlin Productions. Track 7 licensed from Jerry Ross Productions, Inc.

Track 8 by Ernie Maresca under license from PolyGram Special Projects, a Division of PolyGram Records, Inc. Tracks 9 & 17 courtesy of Legrand Productions. Track 10 licensed

from Everest Record Group. Track 11 produced under license from Atlantic Recording Corp. Track 12 courtesy of Rampart Records. Track 13 aA

licensed from Dominion Entertainment, Inc. Tracks 14 & 16 licensed from Del-Fi Records. Track 15 licensed

from Celebrity Licensing, Inc. Track 18 courtesy of MCA Records, Inc.

® 1988 Rhino Records Inc.