MENDOCINO
Mendocino is the second album by country rock group The Sir Douglas Quintet, released in April 1969 on Smash Records. The release of the album was expedited as the result of the top 40 success of the title song. It reached its peak at number 81 on the Billboard 200 charts. Neon Records re-released the album in 2001 and 2008. (More from Wikipedia)
One of the most successful faux-English bands of that period was the Sir Douglas Quintet; although they had a proper British name, the band was actually from San Antonio, Texas, and two of the bandmembers were Hispanic. When their debut album came out in 1966 under the misleading name, The Best of the Sir Douglas Quintet, the band was photographed in silhouette so as to keep the ruse going. The album did include their first major hit (from 1965), “She’s About a Mover”. They had a later hit in 1968, “Mendocino”; though by then, their Texas roots were becoming clear.
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