Yesterday, there were songs by Iron Butterfly and Cryan Shames, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and "Greenburg, Glickstein, Charles, David Smith and Jones."
Here's a little more information on them.
IRON BUTTERFLY-- American psychedelic rock band, who had the monster hit in 1968, not only in popularity, but length as well, clocking in at 17 minutes and taking up a whole album side. The second side was good as well, but I don't think most people turned it over to listen to it. VH1 ranks them at #19 on the list of all-time One-Hit Wonders and the album is at 31 on the list of all-time-best sellers.
CRYAN' SHAMES-- from Hinsdale, Illinois, one of those great Chicago area 1960s garage bands. John Pilster (J.C. Hooke, so named because he was born without a left hand) came up with the name. They were trying to think of a name for their group and, in exasperation, he said it was a crying shame they couldn't come up with one.
They never were higher than #49 on the Billboard chart, but from 1966 to 1968 had five Top Tens on WLS radio in Chicago.
From Wikipedia
So, That's Who They Are. --RoadDog
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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