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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...