The Sonics Introducing The Sonics (CD)

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The Sonics - fronted by Gerry Roslie's banshee vocals - blow-torched the mists of Seattle in 1966... more

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The Sonics: Introducing The Sonics (CD)

The Sonics - fronted by Gerry Roslie's banshee vocals - blow-torched the mists of Seattle in 1966 like the fiery exhaust from a jumbo-jet. With their trademark scorched-earth guitar sounds, they created a mind- numbing assortment of Sonics' classics: 'You Got Your Head On Backwards,' 'Like No Other Man,' 'Psycho,' 'The Witch' and simultaneously reinvented garage rock powerhouses like 'I'm A Man,' 'Diddy Wah Diddy' and much more.

This heavy-duty compact disc edition of the group's 1966 Jerden album adds 4 rare bonus cuts to the original killer disc. No one has done it this raw ever since!

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Interpret: The Sonics
Album titlle: Introducing The Sonics (CD)
Genre Beat
Label SUNDAZED
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0090771619822
weight in Kg 0.1

Sonics, The - Introducing The Sonics (CD) CD 1
01	The Witch	The Sonics
02	You Got Your Head On Backwards	The Sonics
03	I'm A Man	The Sonics
04	On The Road Again	The Sonics
05	Psycho	The Sonics
06	Love Lights	The Sonics
07	I'm Going Home	The Sonics
08	High Time	The Sonics
09	I'm A Rolling Stone	The Sonics
10	Like No Other Man	The Sonics
11	Maintaining My Cool	The Sonics
12	Bama Lama Bama Loo	The Sonics
13	Leave My Kitten Alone	The Sonics
14	Dirty Old Man	The Sonics
15	Diddy Wah Diddy	The Sonics

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The Sonics

This Broken Heart

Since The Kodoks, whose former tenor William Franklin and baritone Larry Davis subsequently became two-fifths of The Sonics, hailed from Newark, New Jersey (their Oh Gee, Oh Gosh came out on Bobby Robinson's Fury label in 1958 and resides on our previous disc), it seems a relatively safe bet that The Sonics hailed from that same vicinity as well.

A group by the same name had a 1958 single on the New York-based X-Tra imprint coupling Once In A Lifetime and It Ain't True; the assumption is that it was the same quintet. Franklin wrote the delectable ballad This Broken Heart, but it was tenor Donald Sheffield who ably fronted The Sonics on the engaging platter. Sheffield also led the flip side, You Made Me Cry, another Franklin composition. The number made enough East Coast noise on Art Gottfried's Harvard Records, another tiny New York imprint, that Chicago's Checker label picked it up in April of '59 for national consumption (Sheffield's featured billing went by the boards).

It was a one-time deal for the group, which bounced from one highly obscure label - Nocturne, Amco, Armonia - to the next during the early '60s without ever attracting the interest that This Broken Heart did.

- Bill Dahl -

Various Street Corner Symphonies 1959 Vol.11

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