Tobacco A Go Go Volume 3
Tobacco A Go Go Volume 3 - 1966 - 1968
This is a collection of songs from bands based in North Carolina. Some are fairly well known in the Garage rock circles and others were practically lost to the world for over 30 years. Please enjoy and by all means makes comments
CD Artwork (PDF document)
Words of Luv - I'd Have To Be Out Of My Mind
Scribes - Just Last Night
Tamrons - Wild Man
Soul Twisters - Soul Fever
18th Edition - Sundown
Shirley Hughey - Pink and Green
Nomads -Thoughts of a Madman
Rockets Combo - Topless a Go Go
King Bees - I Want Your Baby
Huns - You Know
Speckulations - Carol Carol
Fabulous Wunz - If I Cry
Jesters - Wrong Ticket
Psychotics - Im Determined
Huns -Shakedown
Psychotrons - Death is a Dream
Grifs - Catch A Ride
Counts IV - Spoonful
Grifs - Keep Dreamin'
Sounds Unlimited - Cool One
Inexpensive Handmake Look - What Good Is Up
18th Edition - 143rd Street
posted by Michael Slawter | 1:23 PM
15 Comments:
Great songs! Thanks for posting these!
Cool Post!!!
Great tunes here. 'Cept "Soul Fever" won't load.
I've been looking for "Tobacco-A-Go-Go Vol. 2" for some time now with no luck.
It would help if I spelled my own site correctly.
Thanks for the heads up.
No worries!
I got it.
Keeping these sites going can be a pain!
Great Job!
Moose
Mike,
Go ahead and post the front cover if you like.
Ken
Good to have you back, Michael
Where can I buy this? My brother bought me both the Tobacco A-Go-Gos back in '86 on vinyl and they have been a favorite of mine since. I want this collection as well. I really want to see the liner notes. I love reading the stories on the groups.
-Mitchell McGirt
Mitchell, unfortunately this is the only way you can get it. Ken Friedman (the man behind the Tobacco A Go Go franchise) was not able to make actual sellable copies for Volume 3. I will do my best to post information about each band though. I do have a lot of that information.
It was really great to make your acquaintance, Michael. These songs are really a revelation. Thanks for your keeping this music alive.
Great stuff -- and rather impressive how will this collection works the "roots of punk" meme. A good example is the Speckulations "Carol Carol", which could easily pass as an early Velvet Underground outtake; another is the Grifts "Keep Dreamin", which sounds like early Stooges outtake (I can totally imagine a Ron Asherton Wanna-Be-Your-Dog thing here).
But the real shocker is how dead-on Ms Hughey's vocal phrasing on "Pink and Green" anticipates Patti Smith. It's uncanny -- has Patti ever acknowledge listening to Hughey, or borrowing from her?
There's an interview about this with Ken Friedman in the Independent Weekly - http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A366901
Great job Ken! Enjoyed the Indy article too. Thanks for hosting this Michael
For those who enjoyed the WXDU interview, I'll be joining them once more on May 24th, Sunday, at 9 pm. This time it won't be Tobacco A-Go-Go. Instead, we'll spin tunes from my OTHER compilation series, ALL HEART BUT NO CHART. Tune in to see what THAT's all about.
Ken
Listened to " Tobacco A-Go-GO Volume 3" and was surprised to hear a song by the Words of Luv (formerly known as the Teen Beets) from Winston-Salem. It brought back some memories as I am the Teen Beets former drummer. Great blog - keep up the good work.
You need to change the title of the song by The Fabulous Wunz from "If I Try" to "If I Cry".
I was the band's manager from its inception until its demise. The flip side - "Please" was also very popular. We received great airplay on the East coast and did shows with Tommy James & The Shondells, Jay & The Techniques and others.
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