WE HAD THE BEAT / THE HEART BEATS & OTHER TEXAS GIRLS OF THE 60'S
One garage rock compilation album that I picked up by mailorder sometime along the line is We Had the Beat / The Heart Beats & Other Texas Girls of the 60s. The Heart Beats were a good enough band, as were the other featured bands; mostly they recorded serviceable covers of songs like "Little Latin Lupe Lu", "Poor Side of Town" and the Nancy Sinatra hit "How Does that Grab You, Darlin'?".
I have also been reading about another CD that came out more recently which featured a lot of the same music, called It's a Happening! Texas Girls of the 60's. Because the CD features the Heart Beats and Linda Pierre King, I assumed that it was basically a reissue of the earlier CD that I had. Actually, the 26-track album mostly features other bands; but more importantly from my standpoint, there are four songs by King that did not appear on the We Had the Beat / The Heart Beats & Other Texas Girls of the 60s CD. I guess I'm going to need to track down that CD also!
(April 2012)
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Another collection that I have, The Heart Beats & Other Texas Girls of the '60's: We Had the Beat includes several more all-female bands. But there are actually more songs on the CD by a singer-songwriter and past UARA Linda Pierre King.
(October 2013)
