THE GOLLIWOGS
The Golliwogs were an American rock band that eventually became Creedence Clearwater Revival. The band started out, in 1959, as an instrumental trio. After releasing three singles as The Blue Velvets, the band recorded two songs for Fantasy Records in the middle of 1964, under the name The Golliwogs. Seven singles were released in the San Francisco Bay area. While none of the Golliwogs’ singles broke out nationally, one, “Brown-Eyed Girl”, was a near break-out in Miami, Florida, for four weeks beginning on February 26, 1966, when it reached No. 10 on Billboard’s “Regional Breakout” chart for Miami. (More from Wikipedia)
The Search Party had its origins in the Rejects, a garage rock band that originally formed in about 1963. Their repertoire included “Little Black Egg” that had been recorded by the Golliwogs (who later became Creedence Clearwater Revival) and “Mr. Tambourine Man”, the Bob Dylan song that was a hit for the Byrds.
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