Let's take a trip to Apr. 15, 1967! On this week, a band called the Doors Bubbled Under with a song called "Break On Through (To the Other Side)", but almost everyone knows that one already. The record moved to #126 in The US, but became a hit in other countries later on.
Moving on, once again, we have a Soul classic from the one and only Otis Redding, who was making some major waves in the Top 40, but this single sadly did not make it past #78 on the BB chart. It's B-Side, "Let Me Come on Home" charted in The UK. I think that this was a single-only release at the time, following four from the Dictionary of Soul album, the best known being "Try a Little Tenderness" (Later to be covered by Three Dog Night among many others).
"I Love You More Than Words Can Say" is a good ballad.
While my notes don;t have much on 4/15 when it comes to rare albums, I'll take a step back for the week before and find that the G-Punk-Tastic soundtrack to Riot on Sunset Strip was given a mention in Billboard on 4/8. Back in March, the title theme by The Standells made a small mark, and I'm sure that 4/15, the film was playing in a couple of markets here and there, more than likely at Drive Ins and downtown theaters (films were usually not dumped all over back then like they have been since The Late 70's).
Here, The Chocolate Watchband do some Milk Cow Blues on "Don't Need Your Lovin' ", which despite not being very original, was a great example of how the band attracted a following with some very exciting sounds thanks to Dave Augilar's singing. The soundtrack was released on Tower, then home to a lot of AIP soundtracks (like this and The Wild Angels), the Standells and The Watchband, but very soon a then-unknown Pink Floyd would appear on Capitol's subsidiary which would later be a noted company by Garage Punk fans, but that's for later.
After this, the Watchband would face complications with members leaving through 1967 shortly after this, including guitarist Mark Loomis and vocalist Augilar.
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