I want to post a song...

[Charlie O.]

Note the spelling of the band's name on the bass drum head (extra "e"). Done by a professional, no doubt.

Around the 1:45 mark, there's a hilarious contrast between the "audience" on the record and the rather stupified-looking Bandstand kids.

You can tell by the way he asks that Dick Clark knows that the record wasn't really recorded live. He stops short of busting them on it, of course.

I had their LP for years - nothing special. But I've been hearing some of their later singles tracks on youTube lately, and some of them are really good! (Some of them were produced by Larry Tamblyn of The Standells.) I'm surprised there hasn't been a comp.

A comment on the YT page by the bass player's niece says that all of the band members ended up serving in Vietnam!

[rayge]

Was going to post this in the Chicago thread, but although Tommy Hunt was a Chicagoan and a former Flamingo (he sang on I Only Have Eyes...), this is a Bacharach-David song with a flamboyant Leiber-Stoller arrangement/production on Scepter records: couldn't be more New York, really.

I heard Dusty's cover first, naturally, but came to prefer this one, largely because Leiber/Stoller > Ivor Raymonde and his orchestra

[Charlie O.]

Great song! I first heard it by Elvis Costello & The Attractions, who serenaded punk rock audiences with it on the 1977 Stiffs Live tour.

"Bert" Bacharach!

[osgood]

^^Same here. And up to now I had no idea Dusty's was not the original.

["BING E BONG"]

this RULES

[fange]

Fantastic.