David & Jonathan - You've Got Your Troubles & The Greatest Hits

Ola & The Janglers - Flashback #20

Jan & Dean - Filet Of Soul 1966

The Jones - Music To Watch Girls Dance (1967)

 

Carioca group of instrumental rock, composed by George Klein Romeiro da Silva (lead guitar), Edson Klein Romeiro da Silva, brother of the first (rhythm guitar), Newton dos Santos de Oliveira (bass) and Oswaldo Magellan Sands (drums). The ensemble recorded a compact and four long-plays. On the occasion of the third disc was included organist Carlos Alberto Rinaldi da Silva and the drummer was replaced by Lauro de Oliveira Silva Júnior. The group performed at dances, concerts and TV shows. Their executions were of good technique and its long-play \"Feature 14 greatest hits\" had good sales among the people of the musical genre. Excerpted from \"rock'n ' Roll-origin Myths and Rock Instrumental in Brazil and in other countries\", Laércio P Malhotra, ed., 2001.

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Peter Jay &The Jaywalkers - Jaywalkin'Singles 1962-1965

Originally based in East Anglia, England, the Jaywalkers, comprising Peter Miller (lead guitar), Tony Webster (rhythm guitar), Mac McIntyre (tenor saxophone/flute), Lloyd Baker (piano/baritone saxophone), Geoff Moss (acoustic bass), Johnny Larke (electric bass), and Peter Jay (drums), pre-dated the British beat boom. They scored a minor hit in 1962 with ‘Can Can 62’, but despite an unquestioned competence, their rather stilted act became increasingly anachronistic. The group attempted a more contemporary image with several R&B-based releases, and in 1966 a restructured line-up emerged under the name Peter Jay And The New Jaywalkers. Now reduced to a quintet, the unit featured vocalist Terry Reid, but despite an impressive appearance on the Rolling Stones’ UK tour, they disbanded by the end of that year.

The Mops - Psychedelic Sounds in Japan (1968)

Among hardcore 1960s rock collectors who have an interested in Japanese bands of the period, the Mops are one of the biggest acts in the genre, even if that genre is barely known to English-speaking listeners due to some linguistic barriers, and its general obscurity outside of Japan. Their 1968 album Psychedelic Sounds in Japan is certainly the Mops LP that's gained the widest international exposure, as it's the one with the most garage-psychedelic style and has rewarded the efforts of avid collectors around the world. In fact, the Mops were even marketed as "the first psychedelic band in Japan" in their homeland, though as psychedelia goes, it's pretty raw, verging on garage-punk at times. In truth, it's more attractive for the crazed energy of the performances -- and the odd juxtaposition of the earnestness of the singing and playing with the unhinged bent of the arrangements -- than for the originality of the music. It's distinguished from other sounds of its sort, perhaps, by the manic fervor of youngsters discovering British and American psychedelia without quite having the vocabulary (musical and otherwise) to execute it with nearly as much polish as their inspirations. On the Japanese-language songs in particular, this leads to some melodic angles, anguished vocals, and rudimentary fuzz guitar blasts that can sound fairly exotic to Western ears, though they're not exactly catchy. The English-sung tunes comprising more than half the album are mostly covers of foreign hits (the zany self-identifying anthem "I Am Just a Mops" being an exception), and while there's a charge to be gotten by hearing them tackle classics by the Animals and Jefferson Airplane with naive zeal, they're not exactly stunning interpretations, let alone close to being on the level of the originals. They also make an ambitious foray into raga-rock with "Kienai Omoi," complete with sitar. As a whole, the record's an interesting if flawed relic of a time when Japanese rock was just finding its feet, with a clumsy yet endearingly passionate force. [The 2010 British CD reissue on RPM (with English-language historical liner notes) marks the first time it's been licensed outside Japan, and includes two bonus tracks from their 1968 non-LP single "Omae No Subete O"/"Atsuku Narenai," both of which find them getting into dissociative distorted-guitar-fueled sounds far freakier than anything on the album. Note that this reissue does not include one of the tracks from the original LP, "Blind Bird," which has never been made available for any reissue of the album due to its controversial lyrics.]

Ola &The Janglers - Surprise Surprise (1965)

Ola & the Janglers were a garage rock and beat group, founded in Stockholm, Sweden in1962. Its lead member was Ola Håkansson.

Among the hits they scored in their native country are "No, No, No" (1965), "Love Was on Your Mind", "Poetry in Motion", "Alex Is the Man" (1966), "I'm Thinking Of You" (1965), "Strolling Along", and "Runaway" (1968). The group's 1969 hit "Let's Dance", a cover of the Chris Montez song, reached #92 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Ola Håkansson, vocal

Christer Idering, guitar. Replaced by Claes af Geijerstam 1965

Johannes Olsson, keyboards (organ)

Lennart Wallin, bass. Replaced by Åke Eldsäter 1966

Leif Johansson, drums

Всё началось в начале 60-х. Малоизвестный молодой исполнитель Ola Håkansson в 1963 году присоединяется к группе The Janglers, как их солист. Ola сразу же занял там лидирующие позиции, так как вскоре название этого коллектива звучало как Ola & The Janglers. Помимо Ola, в группу входили ещё четверо участников, среди которых можно отметить известного шведского музыканта Claes Af Geijerstam (он и являлся автором большинства песен Ola & The Janglers) и Leif Johansson, который впоследствии также попал в группу Secret Service. Творчество Ola & The Janglers было довольно популярным как в самой Швеции, так и за её пределами. Начав репертуар с кавер-версий композиций The Kinks и Rolling Stones, у себя на родине группа записала более 20 синглов. А их песня “Let’s Dance” в мае 1969 года даже удостоилась попасть в American Billboard Top 100. Ola & The Janglers засветились и в роли кинозвёзд: в 1967 году появились два фильма с участием музыкантов: Drra på - Kul grej på väg till Götet и более известный Ola & Julia, где Ola Håkansson даже исполнил главную роль. Саундтрек к Ola & Julia был написан Claes Af Geijerstam, и включал в себя песню Juliet (Julia на шведском), вышедшую также на сингле. Активность Ola & The Janglers стала угасать с началом 70-х. Последние же сингл и альбом группы вышли в 1976-м году с большим отрывом в пять лет от предшествующих релизов. Альбом 1965 года.

01-Surprise, Surprise 

02-Stop Your Sobbing 

03-We Got A Good Thing Going 

04-Land Of 1000 Dances 

05-Love Was On Your Mind 

06-No No No 

07-It`s Allright 

08-Thinkin` Of You 

09-I Remember When I Loved Her 

10-Satisfaction 

11-This Sporting Life 

12-Leave Me Be