Mal Thursday is joined by Florida Rocks Again! music guru Jeff Lemlich to bring you some of the finest examples of downbeat teen balladry to emerge from Florida in the mid-'60s. This double-wide episode is crammed with adolescent angst, minor chord misery, and woebegone rarities.
Playlist:
THE SHAGGS: Ring Around the Rosie
THE NOVAS: Whenever You’re Ready
THE BURGUNDY BLUES: Nothing Without You
THE MEMBERS: I'll Get By Without You
THE CANADIAN ROGUES: Have You Found Somebody New
THE BUSY SIGNALS: The Losers
THE TROJANS: Leave Me Be
THE OUTSIDERS: Just Let Me Be
PAINTED FACES: Don't Say She's Gone
LITTLE WILLIE & THE ADOLESCENTS: Stop It
FLOWER POWER: Stop
THE EMOTIONS: Why Must It Be
THE NEWPORTS: Life Must Go On
J. WALKER & THE PEDESTRIANS: Life's Too Short
EVIL: I Know I'll Die
WE THE PEOPLE: The Day She Dies
CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF '68: My Friend
THE NON-PAREILS: Willow Tree
THE WRONG NUMBERS: I Wonder Why
THE NIGHTCRAWLERS: What Time Is It?
NATION ROCKING SHADOWS: Time
THE BIRDWATCHERS: Girl, I've Got News for You
SHADES INC.: Don't Run My Life
THE TROPICS: Black Jacket Woman/Goodbye My Love
THE SHY GUYS: Goodbye to You
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