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Rock 'n' Roll Artists A-Z...The Standells

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The Standells were formed in 1962 by guitarist Tony Valentino and organist Larry Tamblyn. The early line-up included Gary Lane on bass and drummer Gary Leeds, who later found fame in the Walker Brothers. Leeds was eventually replaced by former Mousketeer Dick Dodd. As for the name the band chose, they would later tell Dick Clark on American Bandstand, they were just "standing" around one day, trying to think up a name for the band. The quartet became a leading attraction in Los Angeles night-spots and recorded some weak selling albums and singles for Liberty, MGM, and Vee Jay. As a popular local band, they also found themselves appearing in the movie "Get Yourself a College Girl", and a lot of television work (most notably a guest appearance on 'The Munsters').

The band managed to hit the upper regions of the "Top 100" with tunes like "Big Boss Man" and "Someday You'll Cry," but they didn't really hit their stride until teaming up with producer Ed Cobb, formerly of the vocal group the Four Preps. Cobb who wrote a song called "Dirty Water," which marked quite a change of direction from their previous clean-cut image. At first the group didn't even like the song, but six months after it was released, Dirty Water was the number 11 song in the nation.

With their image now considerably toughened, the group issued four albums in quick succession in 1966 and 1967, as well as appearing in (and contributing the theme song to) the psychedelic exploitation movie "Riot on Sunset Strip". Cobb, in addition to writing "Dirty Water," also penned their other singles, including "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White," "Why Pick on Me," and 'Try It" (the last of which was widely banned for its suggestive delivery). The group did write some decent material of their own, such as "All Fall Down," which bears an interesting similarity to some of Pink Floyd's early work.

Tower Records, as was the case with most of its artists, didn't apply intelligent long-range planning to the band's career, releasing too many albums at once. The group didn't help their own cause by issuing an awful vaudeville-rock single, "Don't Tell Me What to Do," under the transparent pseudonym of the Sllednats. It would be their last recording.

By 1968, with their popularity waning, Gary Lane left the band during a tour of Florida and Dick Dodd quit for a solo career. Unfashionable in the face of San Francisco's acid-rock, the band's career was soon confined to the cabaret circuit. Lowell George, later of Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention and Little Feat, briefly joined their ranks, but by 1970 the Standells had become an oldies attraction and faded away for good in the early 70's. Several members re-formed in 1999 for a live show at the Cavestomp festival, and later released as an album called "Ban This!"

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http://www.angelfire.com/nv/Badfinger/BANDstandells.html



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