The British Modbeats Watcha Gonna Do About It/The Price Of Love 7" 45rpm 1966 G
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The British Modbeats
Watcha Gonna Do About It
b/w
The Price of Love
Red Leaf Records TTM-620 1966 7" 45rpm (Canada)
From Jam! Showbiz:
G Fraser Loveman (vocals)
Joe Colonna (bass)
Robbie Jeffrey (drums)
Greig Foster (guitar)
Mike Gorgichuk (guitar)
With the invasion of the Beatles in 1964 and the subsequent British Invasion later that year, the North American music industry was turned upside down trying to compete and capitalize on the new music explosion.
In 1963, a St. Catharines Ventures-styled band called The Lintels were already aware of the British turmoil before it ever made it to Atlantic shores and so in late-'64/early '65 The British Modbeats were born. They were quick to jump on the craze and were the first to wear paisley, bell bottoms and shaggy hair which worked in driving Ontario teens out of their minds.
Ironically, the band only performed cover tunes, but the fans didn't care. They couldn't get enough and so, to fill the demand, the British Modbeats released the Doris Troy song "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" in 1966 followed by their debut album 'Mod Is The British Modbeats' in 1967.
The album spawned a hit single in "Somebody Help Me" followed by two others. The group would rise to the occasion with opening slots for The Rascals, The Byrds, The McCoys and play Expo '67 plus a pit stop at The Scene in New York City.
But with the change in attitudes during the Beatles evolution on 'Sgt. Pepper' and 'The White Album', the hippie movement had taken hold and the British Modbeats became redundant by 1968. They subsequently turned down an offer to record with Phil Spector in Detroit feeling that the US was not a particular avenue they cared to pursue.
Some of the members continued as The Modbeats and later as Looking Glass (different than the US band who had the hit "Brandy"). Fraser Loveman seemed to have the most success with appearances in theatre starring in "Hair" and "Annie Get Your Gun". He had a 1920's styled dance act before playing in the band The Village S.T.O.P. from 1968-1970. He formed the Fraser Loveman Group in 1970 and the Yenmor Blues Band from 1972 to 1973. He went on to work in a paper mill for 17 years and owned the St. Catharines concert hall Rock III.
The British Modbeats reunited in 1989 for some one-off nostalgia revues at Lulu's in Kitchener and Prudhommes. Loveman would then move on to Cafe Bizarre and was last seen writing new material with Modbeats member Joe Colonna in a 8-piece blues/soul/R&B band called Modbeats - Black, White & Blue.
Tracklist
A: Whatcha Gonna Do About It (Payne/Carroll)
B: The Price Of Love (Everly Bros)
A Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure. The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing. This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
Thanks for shopping Sir Helmitt,
Jeff Green, e-sales
7" picture disc is GOOD (a few audible marks) in a hard card industrial sleeve in EXCELLENT condition
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