I didn’t hear the “B” side of the Pleasure Seekers single “Never Thought You’d Leave Me”, “What a Way to Die” until I picked up a retrospective of the Hideout Records label, called Friday at the Hideout. The theme of this song is incredible: The singer seems intent on drinking herself to death with beer (however unlikely that would be in practice). At a later date, the Pleasure Seekers were signed to Mercury Records and released a second single in 1968, “Light of Love” b/w “Good Kind of Hurt”.
Several fine rock bands are featured on the Friday at the Hideout CD; one of them, Doug Brown and the Omens released a promotional flexidisc in support of the candidacy of Republican Senator Robert P. Griffin during his first Senate campaign in 1966. The song, “Give Bob the Ball” – which championed his “youth and experience” – is included on this CD under the name “Youth and Experience”.
(October 2013)
