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• Song of the Week: The Warner Brothers -- Lonely I

  by On The Flip-Side April 4, 2012
  Listen here: The Warner Brothers perform Lonely I From the music mecca of Peoria, Illinois, we have today, The Warner Brothers. They were brothers Larry and Al Warner and they released a number of singles from the early 60s to the early 70s. But only one single on the legendary Chicago label, Dunw...

• Song of the Week: The Wig - Crackin' Up

  by On The Flip-Side April 4, 2012
  Listen here - the Wig perform Crackin' Up This flip-sider just got back from a few days in Austin, Texas. So, obviously, we have to focus today on an Austin band. We do that with The Wig and their monster single, Crackin' Up. Crackin' Upcame to fame with it's inclusion on the original Pebbles seri...

• Song of the Week: The Esquires perform Judgement Day

  by On The Flip-Side March 19, 2012
  Listen - The Esquires perform Judgement Day This is why I love garage music from the 1960s. No record executives here. No songwriter from the Brill Building crafting the perfect song. No producer arrogantly pushing his one-size-fits-all vision on a band. Nope. Just a bunch of kids banging out some...

• Song of the Week: The No-Na-Mee's - Gotta Hold On

  by On The Flip-Side March 12, 2012
  Listen to the song here. Not too much known about this stomper entitled Gotta Hold On. An online ERA Records discography shows this as coming from 1966. The listed producer is a cat named Billy Cardenas. Cardenas apparently specialized in East LA bands and had a penchant for working with hispanic ...

• Song of the week: The Enfields - She Already Has Somebody

  by On The Flip-Side March 6, 2012
  Listen here: On the Flip-Side Like everyone else I know who has heard this song, I first came to it by way of the outstanding 1980s compilation, What A Way To Die. Many years later I was lucky enough to come across the single and scoop it up. For some reason I had it in my head that these cats were...

• Song Of The Week: The Master's Apprentices - Hot Gully Wind

  by On The Flip-Side February 27, 2012
  Listen - The Master's Apprentices perform Hot Gully Wind The Master's Apprentices hailed from the South Australia city of Adelaide. They were far more than your typical one-hit wonder. They put out single after single of high quality work: Undecided, Buried & Dead, Elevator Driver, War Or Hand...

• Song Of The Week: The Sir Douglas Quintet - A Nice Song

  by On The Flip-Side February 27, 2012
  Listen - Sir Douglas Quintet performs A Nice Song Flip-sides On The Flip-Side! Here is the flip-side of a Sir Douglas Quintet single that followed their rock solid 1969 album, Mendocino. The song is A Nice Song. Both in title and in presentation. It was released in 1970 for Phillips Records in the...

• Song of the Week: The Yardbirds - A Certain Girl

  by On The Flip-Side February 15, 2012
  Listen - The Yardbirds perform A Certain GirlAs I was flipping the stations on my satellite radio I came across a show where the DJs were having a segment about the greatest guitar solo in rock history. Those cats on the station were playing stuff by AC/DC (really?), Metallica and Deep Purple and t...

• Song of the Week: Wynonie Harris - Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well?

  by On The Flip-Side February 9, 2012
  Listen - Wynonie Harris performs Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well?Wynonie Harris is one of those great singers that you've probably never heard of. Along with Roy Brown, Big Joe Turner, Ike Turner and Louis Prima and a handful of others, Wynonie Harris pioneered a jump blues style that would give ...
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• Song Of The Week: Mimi & Richard Farina - Reno, Nevada

  by On The Flip-Side February 6, 2012
  Listen - Mimi and Richard Farina perform Reno, Nevada I picked this single up years ago at a crappy Sacramento shopping mall based used record store of no particular name. I probably got it for $.50 or less. From day one I have loved every aspect of it. The incessant reverb-free guitar work that s...

• Morgan Young - This Song For Sale

  by On The Flip-Side January 26, 2012
  Original Song Project: Morgan Young - This Song For Sale Listen - Morgan Young performs This Song For SaleAs I mowed the lawn one day while listening to my iPod, I was struck by commonality of lyrical themes in much of the music to which I was listening. Particularly in the older country songs b...

• The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (alt. version)

  by On The Flip-Side January 26, 2012
  Song of the Week: The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (alternate version) Listen - The Velvet Underground perform Sweet Jane (alternate version)Many years ago a friend and bandmate of mine, who occasionally haunts this board under the nameCoyote, asked me a simple question. "Are you a fan of The ...

• Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin'

  by On The Flip-Side January 26, 2012
  Song of the Week: Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin' Listen - Justin Townes Earle performs Hard Livin'At 28 years of age, Justin Townes Earle has already put out four albums, has the stage presence of the most confident artists and the baritone voice of a man who has lived many more years than he ...

• The Music Machine - Mo Girl Gonna Cry

  by On The Flip-Side January 26, 2012
  Song of the Week: The Music Machine - No Girl Gonna Cry Listen - The Music Machine perform No Girl Gonna CrySean Bonniwell passed away two weeks ago after a battle with lung cancer. Sean Bonniwell is one of those guys who made great, inventive and forward thinking music. And like fellow Angelenos...

• Pete Townshend - Is It In My Head? (demo)

  by On The Flip-Side January 26, 2012
  Song of the Week: Pete Townshend - "Is It In My Head?" Listen - Pete Townshend performs Is It In My Head?Quadrophenia is one of the most highly praised albums of all time. It marks the end of an amazing run of four "must have albums" from The Who (preceded by Sell Out, Tommy, and Who's Next.) In ...

• The Byrds - Have You Seen Her Face?

  by On The Flip-Side January 26, 2012
  Song of the Week: The Byrds perform Have You Seen Her Face? Listen - The Byrds perform Have You Seen Her Face?The Byrds were probably America's best band in an era dominated by the British Invasion. Not just clones of the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, The Byrds blended American country and weste...

• Original Song by Morgan Young - Nothing Left To Lose

  by On The Flip-Side January 25, 2012
  Listen - Morgan Young performs Nothing Left To LoseA quite whimper offered for your use about a dirty little town of stray dogs, lust and hate. I hope you enjoy.Photograph (C) Morgan Young, 2011

• The Phantom Brothers - Chicago

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
    Listen - The Phantom Brothers perform Chicago Nope, that's not the forefather of the Ramones in the front of the picture. It's the singer for The Phantom Brothers, a Hamburg Germany area band from the mid-60's. Here they perform their "hit", ba-ba-ba-ba...Chicago.

• Q65 - Cry In The Night

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
    Listen - Q65 perform Cry In The Night What we have here is a prime example of why we call this blog, On The Flip-Side. This song is the flip-side of the Q65's second single. But unlike most singles, whose flip-side we praise, this one actually had a great A-Side too. The A-side is called The Life...

• Cuby + The Blizzards - Back Home

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
  Listen - Cuby + The Blizzards perform Back Home We'll take a look at mainland Europe garage bands all this week. Here is our all time favorite song out of Holland. It is the original composition, Back Home, by Cuby + The Blizzards who make a second showing on these pages (the first was their earli...

• The Other Half - Mr. Pharmacist

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
    Listen - The Other Half perform Mr. Pharmacist Los Angeles 1966. I would have loved to been there at that time. Love, Byrds, Doors, Chocolate Watchband, Standells, Sons of Adam all playing the strip. Add to that, The Other Half. Here they are doing their original, Mr. Pharmacist. Jeff Nolan, th...

• Barbarians - Hey Little Bird

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
  Listen - The Barbarians perform Hey Little Bird From Cape Cod, Massachusetts, come The Barbarians. They are probably best known for their two later songs, Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl and the novelty song, Moulty, an auto-biography of their one-armed drummer (waaaaay before Def Lepperd thought ...

• The Sparkles - No Friend of Mine

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
  Listen - The Sparkles perform No Friend of Mine Lubbock is, of course, home to one of the all time greats, Buddy Holly. But the west-Texas town produced another great band that actually started playing the same time as Holly and his Crickets,The Sparkles. The Sparkles changed line-ups a bazillion ...

• The Squires - Going All The Way

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
  Listen - The Squires perform Going All the Way   The jangly guitar, the lonely bird chirp of the far off organ, the lyrics that exude cockiness, the blazingly fast guitar lead that takes up nearly 1/4 of the entire song. The singer's scream that leads us into said guitar solo. It is perfect. Perfec...

• Zakary Thaks - Bad Girl

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
  Listen - Zakary Thaks performs Bad Girl. I probably looked like Linda Blair from the Exorcist the first time I heard this some 25+ years ago. It is simply an amazing song with a killer Kinks-inspired riff, great guitar lead and perhaps my favorite key change in the history of music. The band is Co...

• The Runaways perform Cherry Bomb

  by On The Flip-Side June 3, 2011
    Listen/Download - The Runaways perform Cherry Bomb   This group and song are sooooo different than last week's SoTW. Where the last song was a nice cheese and olive plate with some prosciutto and a chardonnay, this one is more corn dog and a Coke. The song is the enduring, highly entertaining, a...

• Josh Rouse performs It's The Nighttime

  by On The Flip-Side June 3, 2011
    Listen/Download - Josh Rouse performs It's the Nighttime   Sometimes we just dig songs because we just like the way they sound. That's the case with our SoTW, It's The Nighttime, by singer and songwriter, Josh Rouse. We flipsters first learned about the native Nebraskan when Rouse opened for ano...

• Bob Dylan performs Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (demo)

  by On The Flip-Side June 3, 2011
      Listen/download - Bob Dylan performs a demo version of Don't Think Twice, It's Alright   Happy 70th Bobby D. 

• Bettie Serveet performs Kid's Allright

  by On The Flip-Side May 10, 2011
  Listen/download - Bettie Serveet performs Kid's Allright   The amount of information I know about this early 90's band whom hailed from the Netherlands, could fill a thimble. I know the band name, Bettie Serveert, translates, roughly, as "Service to Bettie" and was taken from the auto biography of...

• The Bold perform Gotta Get Some

  by On The Flip-Side April 25, 2011
    Listen/Download - The Bold perform Gotta Get Some     "Gotta get some. Yeah baby!" The year is 1966. The town is Springfield, Massachusetts. Four college kids living in nearby Amherst stride into a studio and spew onto wax their love of college girls, sexual voyeurism, and the need to let it erup...

• Pete Townshend and Billy Nicholls perform Forever's No Time At All

  by On The Flip-Side April 19, 2011
  Listen - Pete Townshend and Billy Nicholls perform Forever's No Time At All   Here today is a song from Pete Townshend that is not very much from Pete Townshend. The song is Forever's No Time At All and it appeared on Townshend's debut solo album, Who Came First. The album was released on Track Rec...

• Listen/Download - The Sonics perform Louie, Louie

  by On The Flip-Side April 19, 2011
  Listen/Download here - The Sonics perform Louie, Louie.     We love putting out rare, forgotten or hard to find music and letting you hear it. It's what we do. But today's SoTW may not fit into that category we've built for ourselves. In fact, the song, Louie, Louie, may be the most recognized rock...

• Arthur Lee and Love perform "Always See Your Face"

  by On The Flip-Side April 5, 2011
  Listen/Download -- Arthur Lee and Love perform Always See Your Face     I find myself in Hollywood this week. And as I drove down Santa Monica Boulevard, passing the legendary Troubador, on the MP3 player comes Arthur Lee and Love performing A House Is Not A Motel. Behind only the Beach Boys, Love, ...

• Brett Detar performs The Devil's Gotta Earn (free album download)

  by On The Flip-Side March 11, 2011
  Listen - Brett Detar performs The Devil's Gotta Earn The landscape and dynamics of the music industry are changing faster than Lindsay Lohan's rap sheet. Records used to come with inner-sleeves that warned that "taping records is killing the music industry." Then vinyl gave way to Compact Discs w...

• Videos: Mod Mash-Up

  by On The Flip-Side March 8, 2011
  Mod Mash-up Videos Galore.   and one little sample  

• Bobby "Blue" Bland performs I've Been Wrong So Long

  by On The Flip-Side March 1, 2011
  Listen and download - Bobby Bland performs I've Been Wrong So Long.  In my younger years I ran across a reprint of a Davey Jones and the Mannish Boys single. The A-Side was a decent enough song called I Pity The Fool. It grabbed my attention if for no other reason than mod kingpin, Davey Jones, wou...

• The Zombies perform Just Out of Reach!

  by On The Flip-Side February 14, 2011
  Listen - The Zombies perform Just Out of Reach   It's real hard to beat The Zombies. Song for song, they may have been the highest quality band to come out of The British Invasion. But sometimes quality isn't recognized. In a world where people gobble up Budweiser and McDonalds, the Zombies were to...

• The Who perform Tattoo

  by On The Flip-Side February 4, 2011
  Listen - The Who perform Tattoo    

• Mourning Reign perform Satisfaction Guaranteed

  by On The Flip-Side January 22, 2011
    Listen/Download - The Mourning Reign perform Satisfaction Guaranteed   1966 is the single greatest year for rock-n-roll ever. 1956 was good too, but no 1966. 1977 was also a critical year, but falls far short of what went down across the globe in 1966.     Let's back up a bit. A few short years p...

• How Zep nicked a song from Moby Grape

  by On The Flip-Side January 18, 2011
    Listen - Moby Grape performs Never and Led Zeppelin performs Since I've Been Loving You Here it is, the much anticipated third installment of The Song STILL Remains the Same: the unauthorized etymology of Led Zeppelin songs. In our first installment, exactly a year ago, we looked at how Jimmy Pa...

• Wynn Stewart performs Another Day, Another Dollar (from Jetta Commercial)

  by On The Flip-Side January 10, 2011
  Listen - Wynn Stewart & The West Coast Playboys performs Another Day, Another Dollar So, you've seen that Volkswagen Jetta commercial playing on endless cycle and now you've had that song they use to pimp their car, Another Day, Another Dollar, playing in your head on repeat for about 3 week...

• The Rocking Ramrods perform She Lied!

  by On The Flip-Side January 8, 2011
    Listen - The Rockin' Ramrods perform She Lied!     Sometimes you just need to let the song speak for itself (and for you). So here we go, The Rockin' Ramrods perform their original composition, She Lied! Recorded in 1964(!!!!) for BonBon Records in their hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.

• R.L. Burnside performs Skinny Woman

  by On The Flip-Side January 4, 2011
  Listen - R.L. Burnside performs Skinny Woman Walk into almost any blues jam in America, Europe or Australia and you almost assuredly will be hit with a tidal wave of guitar players with a Fender Stratocaster, a fedora, a Marshall amp, a ton of overdrive and a grimacing face that punctuates every ...

• Ray Charles performs I Don't Need No Doctor, 1966

  by On The Flip-Side December 30, 2010
    Listen - Ray Charles performs I Don't Need No Doctor We don't need to explain who Ray Charles is. We don't need to create a schematic to prove his importance on the American and European music landscape. We don't need to give you a backstory to make you more interested in his output. We don't n...

• Them perform I'm Gonna Dress In Black

  by On The Flip-Side December 16, 2010
  Listen - Them performs I'm Gonna Dress In Black Ahhh, it's Them. I must say, it has been a while since I had Them on the turntable. Too long. So how sweet it was when, just the other week, I pulled out some of my US label Parrot Records-stamped Them 45's, a few O'Dell's IPA beers, and had a grand ...
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• Gene Clark performs Polly

  by On The Flip-Side December 11, 2010
  Listen - The Dillard and Clark Expedition perform Polly. We present to you today a beautiful song that we have previously been reluctant to post on this site. We were hesitant because the song is so nuanced and so mellow, that we have feared the click-happy listener won't take the time to get ...

• Q65 performs I Got Nightmares

  by On The Flip-Side November 29, 2010
  Listen - Q65 performs I Got Nightmares Here at On The Flip-Side we've sung the praises of 60s Dutch Beat, also known as Nederbeit. We've hit on the most musically talented of the bunch, Cuby + The Blizards, and we've hit on the most popular of the scene, The Outsiders. But we haven't touched o...

• Ride That Stingray!

  by On The Flip-Side November 19, 2010
  Listen - Ride That Stingray! Here is a song I wrote about a friend's tale of running away from home when he was a young lad. I've embellished with some of my own memories and a little reminiscing about the feel of 26 pounds of thunder between the legs and the smell of freedom that is the open ...

• The Dynamics perform Misery (The Who content)

  by On The Flip-Side November 15, 2010
  Listen - The Dynamics perform Misery What a nice little gem we have for you today. Even if you are a big-time music collector, I bet most of you are not familiar with this song. But, it might, just might, sound familiar. That's because this song, Misery, was the subject of some pretty blatant pl...

• The Lionhearted perform Honey In Your Hips (unreleased 80s garage revival)

  by On The Flip-Side November 11, 2010
  Listen - The Lionhearted perform Honey In Your Hips Okay, you garage rock freaks. Here is one you haven't heard before. It is an unreleased track by a garage rock band out of California in the mid 80s. The band is The Lionhearted and they are covering the very early Yardbirds track, Honey In You...