THOSE NAUGHTY BOYS SOMEBODY TOLD MY GIRL CANADIAN GARAGE ROCK SIR JOHN A
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You are bidding on THOSE NAUGHTY BOYS SOMEBODY TOLD MY GIRL / TELL ME WHY.
This is a 45 RPM on Sir John A RG1020 Canadian issue.
Visually vinyl is near mint – collector piece.
BIO:
Gauthier assembled a rag-tag batch of his Ottawa high school friends who had no musical experience in 1965 to create Those Naughty Boys.
After only a few rehearsals, the garage band entered H.H. Bloom Studios to cut a demo of two songs - "Can't Tell You" and "Gone Away" (which would not see the light of day until 1995). Following this, Esquires roadie Don Nicholson became their manager and landed them a record deal with Montreal's Fantastic Records.
Their single "Baby" was released in April 1966 which led to a grueling winter tour of north-east Ontario and Quebec. On a trip to Maniwaki, their van flipped on the highway which rattled the band members, but they escaped uninjured.
With the money they earned on the road they opened their own nightclub called Club 400 in Cornwall, Ontario where they could play whenever they want and book touring acts traveling the Ottawa to Montreal corridor.
By the time their second single, a cover of the Ivy League's "Somebody Told My Girl", came out on the Sir John A. label exactly a year after their first, Gauthier had strained his voice and Wayne McQuaid (ex-Eyes of Dawn) was brought in temporarily to fill in for their commitments over the next three months. The song did manage to crack the Top 30 in June 1967.
The band was on its last legs at this point and once the shows were done, Gauthier became the new singer for The Eastern Passage; Chenier would go on to a success career in the '70s and '80s as the founding member/frontman for heavy metal act Fist.
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