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This explosive slab of seven-inch plastic represents the first waxings by the soon-to-be-legendary Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, issued in minuscule quantity on the Hyland label in 1964. Grab this platter...it's the first time these tracks have been available since their original release! Mitch wails...Jim McCarty's guitar stings...and "The Bee's" thundercrack drumming holds the whole wild show together...Billy Lee & The Rivieras were a runaway train, Motor City-style, right outta the...

For producer-wunderkind Gary Usher, Sagittarius was the outcome of months holed up in the studio with like-minded friends: Curt Boettcher, Bruce Johnston, Glen Campbell, the Firesign Theatre and others. The hit single, "My World Fell Down", debuted in 1967. "Present Tense" - shimmering, dense, and relentlessly melodic - quite simply relocated the goals of contemporary pop songwriting and arranging. Mastered in the best Sundazed tradition, "Present Tense" chronicles the epitome of California...

In August 1966, the world met the Monkees (and vice versa) as their debut single, "Last Train to Clarksville," was released and bought them a ticket to ride straight to the top of the charts! With debut of their television show just weeks later on September 12th, the group suddenly found themselves with a huge fanbase, clamoring for more music. They answered that call on October 10th with the release of their debut album, The Monkees, which topped the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks. Featuring...

ON TRANSLUCENT GOLD VINYLChristmas is a merry time and what could make one merrier than giving this exact repro of the Trashmen's ultra-rare Christmas 7" a whirl on the ole holiday hi-fi?Also available as a digital download on iTunes.Includes:Dancin’ With Santa • Real Live Doll

Put some Swag in your step with the frenzified surf sounds of the Tornadoes! Sundazed is proud to present these super hi-voltage Link Wray rippers from 1962-no party is complete without this! Includes:The Swag • Raw-Hide

ON CLEAR VINYL The Newcastle Five could have made a monkey out of any of the so-called rock experts. The band didn't come from Newcastle, the English city best known as hometown of British Invasion stalwarts the Animals. Their sound was strictly folk-rock, heavily influenced by the Rickenbacker 12-string jangle of the Byrds. Hailing from San Mateo, Calif., 20 miles south of San Francisco, the Newcastle Five was assembled by rail-thin brothers Rich and Tom Martin who, in the summer of '65, were...

Always mentioned in the same breath as the South Bay's hallowed trio-the Syndicate Of Sound, the Chocolate Watchband and Count Five-the Mourning Reign has been woefully under-represented. This Bay Area rock group has the purest form of harmonious sonic artillery--a hard rock group with the rare ability to divert sweet harmony and earthy jazz blues without a hitch. With hard-hitting fuzz-drenched material like "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and "Our Fate" this inflammable fivesome sat high on the...

Before metamorphosing into the Superfine Dandelion, Phoenix's Mile Ends--inspired by playing the top Tempe teen haunt, the Fifth Estate--blasted out the drinking anthem "Bottle Up And Go." With the other side of their first slab of wax (originally released on Rook Records) came a cover of "Candy Man." We've added sizzling previously unreleased Pretty Things and Them covers to that scintillating 45, along with unearthed photographs and liner notes by John P. Dixon, expert on the Phoenix...

Just as Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys gave the world Pet Sounds, Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean gave the world "Save For A Rainy Day." It was April 12, 1966 when Dean's partner Jan Berry had his near fatal automobile accident. In the midst of forming their own record label and starring in their own television series everything came to a halt. Torrence was left stunned, and in an unusual position: he found himself in the varied role of singer, songwriter and producer -- duties typically...

The Sonics - fronted by Gerry Roslie's banshee vocals - blow-torched the mists of Seattle in 1966 like the fiery exhaust from a jumbo-jet. With their trademark scorched-earth guitar sounds, they created a mind- numbing assortment of Sonics' classics: "You Got Your Head On Backwards," "Like No Other Man," "Psycho," "The Witch" and simultaneously reinvented garage rock powerhouses like "I'm A Man," "Diddy Wah Diddy" and much more.This blistering black platter of the group's 1966 Jerden album...

The record world was a completely different place in 1965. Kids wanting to take home a piece of the rock 'n' roll action they frugged to at the Armory dance last weekend or a wild tune they heard the local bossjocks spin on the way home from school, inevitably had to deal with seven-inchers made by independent record labels. The single was the thing in the mid-60's, not the album. In even the hippest big city record emporiums, you could thumb through the entire recorded canon of British...

The record world was a completely different place in 1965. Kids wanting to take home a piece of the rock 'n' roll action they frugged to at the Armory dance last weekend or a wild tune they heard the local bossjocks spin on the way home from school, inevitably had to deal with seven-inchers made by independent record labels. The single was the thing in the mid-60's, not the album. In even the hippest big city record emporiums, you could thumb through the entire recorded canon of British...

The Daytonas' second LP, Sandy -- named for their 1965 chart smash -- proved they took a backseat to no one when it came to lush, ocean-flecked tales of summertime heartbreak. Pressed on surfboard-thick High-Definition Vinyl and featuring liner notes based on candid interviews, along with exclusive photos of the band. The songs are so real you can almost hear the squawking seagulls!Includes:Sandy • Hold Me My Baby • Baby Say No • When Stars Shine Bright • Be Good To Your Baby • If I Had My Way...

Now on limited edition colored vinyl!When Ronny & The Daytonas cut "G.T.O." -- the all-time "turn it on, wind it up, blow it out" hot rod classic -- and an album of similar nitro-burning 1964 scorchers, it was clear the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean had no monopoly on rubber-burning dragstrip rock. Pressed on surfboard-thick High-Definition Vinyl and featuring liner notes based on candid interviews, along with exclusive photos of the band. The songs are so real you can almost hear the screeching...

Industry weasels have called us "insane" for even considering a 4-CD Trashmen box set. Of course, that very lack of foresight is what makes them weasels in the first place. You, our discerning friends, might concur on the "insanity" thing, but will also know instantly that this is indeed the Motherlode, possibly the very reason God put Sundazed on this fine earth, our legacy to the ages. Fifty years from now, direct electronic stimulation of the cortex will have obsoleted music as an...

Long-awaited reissue of 1967 debut by baroque rock legends!Now Available on Translucent Gold Vinyl!The work of the Left Banke has long been an elusive holy grail for vintage pop fanatics. The legendary "baroque rock" combo's work ranks with the greatest American music of the 1960s, and remains beloved by discerning pop connoisseurs around the world. Out of print for decades and despite its longstanding unavailability, the Left Banke's music has attained an ever-increasing level of prestige...

The Paisleys? mystical, brooding album, Cosmic Mind At Play, makes its first ever legit vinyl re-release! Produced by Warren Kendrick (The Litter, The Electras), SUNDAZED proudly presents the full, swirlingly-psychedelic portrait of these dark Minneapolis wizards direct from the original masters!

"A previously unissued, killer acid-ballroom blitz by the late H.P. Lovecraft, a sadly under regarded Chicago band caught in its trippy Gothic psych-rock prime at the Filmore West." --Rolling StoneIn case you hadn't noticed, there weren't a lot of people taking notes during the heyday of psychedelic concertdom. As a result, the lore and legend of that era consists of hazy, mumbled recollections of plankton-brained survivors. Well, rewrite the history books, because Sundazed archaeologist Jeff...

The LP edition comes in a gatefold jacket with a replica poster and bumper sticker. On translucent gold RTI pressed vinyl! Located 40-odd miles west of Detroit, Ann Arbor was a cauldron of social change in the '60s. Radical politics, courtesy of Students for a Democratic Society and John Sinclair's White Panther Party, mixed with a vibrant music scene which featured adventurous acts like Iggy Pop and the Psychedelic Stooges. In the midst of this fervor, local musician George Frayne IV felt the...

Shake 'em up! R&B from the vaults of King/Federal Records! The lascivious pen of Henry "Hank" Ballard was responsible for many risque odes, including The Midnighters' "Work With Me Annie," "Sexy Ways," and "Get It," major R&B hits of the early '50s all included on 1956's Their Greatest Hits! The FCC banned several of the band's songs from airplay, which only made them that much more desirable for the growing teenage market, and this Sundazed edition--pressed on audiophile vinyl at RTI--is the...

Shake 'em up! R&B from the vaults of King/Federal Records! Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Steve Cropper all have cited Five Royales' guitarist and songwriter Lowman Pauling as a major influence! Tracks like "It Hurts Inside" and "Wonder Where Your Love Has Gone" highlight his taught, stinging style with solos that served as lessons for budding guitarists everywhere. Sundazed is proud to reissue The Five Royales' from 1959-- pressed on audiophile quality vinyl by RTI and sourced...

The new, down-home, from-the-heart imprint: SUNDAZED RFD! - GIGANTIC GUITARS! - 7" VINYL! - GOLD WAX! - GORGEOUS PICTURE SLEEVES! Featuring Bob Irwin and Eddie Angel! Astounding, you-are-there recreations of the shimmering, sparkling sounds of the Shadows, Ventures, and other early string sensations! The first single by the East Nashville Teens'a collaboration of Bob Irwin and the Pluto Walkers with founding Los Straitjackets members Eddie Angel and Jimmy Lester--The Lonely Bull/Bullseye! is...

Mono Editions on vinyl and compact disc. Greenwich Village, 1964: While the folk boom is still in progress, other musics began seeping into the corners and clubs of lower Manhattan. Rock, once down for the count, came back with a vengeance, largely thanks to a klatch of young British bands. Roots music, especially blues, grew rapidly in popularity as folk enthusiasts expanded their horizons. In this intoxicating milieu, John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Joe Butler and Steve Boone united to form...

Mono Editions on vinyl and compact disc. Greenwich Village, 1964: While the folk boom is still in progress, other musics began seeping into the corners and clubs of lower Manhattan. Rock, once down for the count, came back with a vengeance, largely thanks to a klatch of young British bands. Roots music, especially blues, grew rapidly in popularity as folk enthusiasts expanded their horizons. In this intoxicating milieu, John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Joe Butler and Steve Boone united to form...

Mono Editions on vinyl and compact disc. Greenwich Village, 1964: While the folk boom is still in progress, other musics began seeping into the corners and clubs of lower Manhattan. Rock, once down for the count, came back with a vengeance, largely thanks to a klatch of young British bands. Roots music, especially blues, grew rapidly in popularity as folk enthusiasts expanded their horizons. In this intoxicating milieu, John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, Joe Butler and Steve Boone united to form...

The great lost album of country music! Recorded at the then-new RCA Victor Studio B in Nashville, this amazing collection of Chet Atkins with brother Jim on vocals was cancelled before release, and the very few existing copies are now multi-thousand-dollar rarities, with one selling in 2012 for an astounding $8,100! Taped as a test for the brand-new Ampex machines and custom RCA mixing console at the facility, the sessions--intended simply for demonstration purposes--turned out so well that...

When Jan Berry was injured in a terrible auto accident in 1966, partner Dean Torrence did his best to keep the duo's name alive. Though released under the Jan & Dean moniker, Save for a Rainy Day was solely Torrence's creation. A concept album featuring songs about rain with sound effects of a thunderstorm linking the tracks, it was an adventurous departure from the duo's past work. Much of the album was recorded in the garage of Torrence's neighbor, bassist Joe Osbourne. Osbourne enlisted...

One of the rarest surf soundtrack albums of all time! Original Soundtrack Recording!Introducing. . .The Back-Wash Rhythm Band featuring DAVIE ALLAN Hailed as ?magnificent? by the Los Angeles Times, director Dale Davis? film The Golden Breed captured surfing at the height of its longboard era. Featuring the sport?s top stars, it was beautifully shot in Hawaii, California and other scenic locales. However, when the film was released in 1968, surfing was in the midst of a revolution. Australian...

Surf, Cycles and Super Guitar Crunch! The kids of 1958 loved 'em, and their first single for Cadence Records shot up the charts like a label owner's dream. This is the fantastic and fiery album that was supposed to have been released as a follow-up to one of the all-time great instrumental classics, the ultra-menacing "Rumble." But faster than you can say "Drag Race," everyone--Cadence label-owner Archie Bleyer included--was talking about this new threat to the morals of American youth. That's...

Chicago's local heroes the Cryan' Shames topped the Midwest charts on a regular basis from 1966-1969 with their harmony-fueled pop confections. From their straight-outta-the-garage debut, Sugar & Spice (which stars the indelible hit of the same name) to the more mature psychedelic orchestrations of A Scratch in the Sky and Synthesis, these compact discs--graced with bonus tracks a-plenty--contain some of the most memorable pop-rock of the '60s!Includes:A Carol For Lorelei • Sailing Ship • In...

In '66 the Cyrkle inked a contract with Columbia Records, scored a #2 chart hit with "Red Rubber Ball," gained a coveted spot on the Beatles' Final U.S. tour and recorded Red Rubber Ball and Neon "two longplayers with some of the most soaring three-part harmonies and intricate arrangements that '60s pop had to offer. Each disc comes with a dazzling array of bonus tracks, interviews and great unseen photos!Includes:Don’t Cry, No Fears, No Tears Comin’ Your Way • The Visit (She Was Here) •...

THE WOODSTOCK LEGEND ON !"Freedom." The very mention of the song conjures images of Richie Havens at Woodstock, fiercely strumming his guitar and lost in an improvisational moment of creation. An intensely engaging performer, Havens honed his craft in the clubs and cafes of Greenwich Village, just over the bridge from his native Brooklyn. Painter, poet and multi-instrumentalist, Havens immersed himself in the Village's beatnik culture just as the nascent folk scene began to develop. Connecting...

Soul-Shakin' DynamiteWayne Cochran! The exclamation point is there for a reason. Known as "The White Knight of Soul," Cochran was flamboyant in both voice and attire. Crowned by a swooping white pompadour, he held back nothing on stage. His performance style was very reminiscent of fellow Georgia native Little Richard Penniman. Like Penniman, music led Cochran to his current career as a minister. Anyone who's ever witnessed a fire-and-brimstone southern gospel service can see the connection...

Delivering a devastating punch to rock's early '60s doldrums, Bo Diddley Is a Lover bursts at the seams with Bo's uncompromising, rockin' beat. Yep. Industry and the government may have cleaned up fellow '50s rockers like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis and Gene Vincent, but they didn't get to Bo -- a defiant rocker to the core. By the time of the 1961 sessions for this album, Bo had relocated from Chicago to DC, to record at his own home studio. He used his artistic freedom to his complete...

JOHN LEE HOOKER, ALBERT KING, JOHNNY "GUITAR" WATSON and more on Vinyl Pressed at R.T.I. Selected from the crown jewels of the rich King-Federal-DeLuxe discography, King Strings features rocking, socking guitar instrumentals from the Cincinnati-based family of labels cut between 1949 and 1962, programmed for power! Fashioned as a vintage King LP from the era and containing a killer line-up of the biggest talents the stable of labels offered, this is the historic various artists collection that...

The magic of the Toys was that they managed to take classical melodies that tortured you as a young piano student and turn them into finger-poppin', girl-group masterpieces. What better revenge at Madame Souzatka than reliving that triumph via the wonder of compact disc! Two big hits and a buncha other toe-tappers nicely collected in one magnificent stab at the heart of Hanon!TRACK LISTING:1. I Can't Get Enough Of You Baby2. Deserted 3. See How They Run 4. Hallelujah5. I Got A Man6. A Lover's...

The Standells' amazing string of punkish, tough-guy anthems, like "Dirty Water" and "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White", define the legacy of mid-sixties garage rock like nothing else. With the success of these records came '66 tours with the Rolling Stones and Beach Boys. From all reports, the Standells proved a superb live act. But for decades, their on-stage reputation rested on an earlier, Pre-Tower label live album documenting the Standells in an unrecognizably clean-cut night club...

Besides releasing two classic longplayers and many more singles (including the smash, "Gloria"), touring/behaving badly all across America and appearing on TV shows like "Upbeat" and 'Where The Action Is" the Shadows of Knight also ruled at suburban Chicago's hands-down hippest teen club, The Cellar. Over the decades, their Cellar performances have become the stuff of legend. Miraculously, two reels of tape of the Shadows of Knight live on stage at the Cellar (in 1966!) were eventually...

Nobody from the tidal wave of surf combos inundating Southern California in the early '60s did it any gnarlier than the Tornadoes, in hot water immediately for titling an early single "Shootin' Beavers." Our new release collects the best of the group's material from their ultra-rare album and scarce singles, plus adds 3 vintage, massive reverb swats that have remained unissued for over 35 years! A total of 18 tracks-plus an onboard gab-session (with all five of the original members) gives...

Red Simpson's aiming his 18-wheeler towards the friendly glow of home and hearth, and pulling into town just in time for Christmas with the family. How much better can it get than Trucker's Christmas, Red Simpson's classic 1973 album, stuffed to the busting point with Yuletide cheer (and maybe just a little bit of the wintertime blues)? It's Bakersfield-school trucker's rock as it was meant to be heard: spring, summer, fall... and winter. All year long. Track Listing:1. Truckin' Trees for...

Original album includes the title track, "Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves," "Black Smoke a Blowin' Over 18 Wheels," "Jackknife," "Born to Be a Trucker," "Piggyback Blues," and more.

DRAGGIN? THE WAVES!!! Sundazed unveils two more exact-album CD reissues chronicling the big ?60s roar of West Coast surf ?n? hot rod! We?ve been granted the rare opportunity to liberate the original masters from the vaults of Capitol Records to give this groundbreaking music the royal treatment it deserves! The Knights? Hot Rod High and the Kickstands? Black Boots and Bikes showcase the stunning talent of leader/arranger/performer Gary Usher and his posse of studio buddies. Each disc features...

The new, down-home, from-the-heart imprint: SUNDAZED RFD!- GIGANTIC GUITARS! - 7" VINYL! - GOLD WAX! - GORGEOUS PICTURE SLEEVES!Two Storming Instrumental Cuts from the Kentucky Headhunters Guitar Slinger! The Kentucky Headhunters' legendary guitar guru Greg Martin's debut solo single! Joined by Dean Smith and Steve Holmes, Martin and associates lay down storming, stomping renditions of two favorite '60s numbers, "Groovy Grubworm" and "Scratchy" --the former a brilliant marriage of a modified...

LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1971!By the time the Youngbloods, always crowd faves at the west coast ballrooms, performed live for San Francisco's free-form radio pioneer KSAN in 1971, they'd honed their set to a fine gloss. Featuring the smooth as apple-butter voice of Jesse Colin Young and the guitar/keyboard wizardry of Banana, backed by the rock-solid bass-and-drum tandem of Michael Kane and Joe Bauer, the Youngbloods positively sparkle here. We're elated to present for the first time on vinyl a...

ESSENTIAL? ESSENTIAL.It's tempting to say that Bo Diddley recorded 11 full-length albums, each one better than the last; but that would be denying the pure, unsurpassed genius of his first, Bo Diddley.Music historians have wasted so many perfectly good words trying to explain the significance of Bo Diddley. "Bo Diddley liberated the blues from the 12-bar form and melded it to an insistent, infectious rhumba beat," they bleat. "Diddley was the progenitor of all that was to come in the evolution...

Reproduction of the ultra-rare original picture sleeve and original Epic promo labels!Limited edition for Record Store Day 2014!Mastered from the original reels!Taut and tough Wray from his heyday! One of the original heavy metal heroes, Link Wray basically invented power chord riffing--both Jimmy Page and Pete Townshend have credited their interest in becoming axe gods to him--and his recordings are a monument to the relentless influence of his unique razor-blade extended guitar sound....

Sgt. Pepper taught a lot of bands to play in 1967, including New York's Paper Garden, whose absorption of the Fab Four's Summer of Love statement came out on Musicor Records the following year. What Paper Garden can't match in terms of the Beatles' sophistication they make up for in ambition, as exhibited on the harpsichord-enhanced pop genius of "Lady's Man," orchestrated gems like "Way Up High," the fuzz-pop-psych of "I Hide," and Eastern grooves on "Man Do You" and "Raining." With...

Mike Condello did it all in four decades in the music business: serve as music director for two local Phoenix TV shows (Teen Beat and The Wallace & Ladmo Show), lead his own bands like Hub Cap and the Wheels, parody the Beatles with Commodore Condello's Salt River Navy Band, and even play with luminaries like Keith Moon, the Tubes, and Jackson Browne. In 1968, he also led his own band -- which released the psychedelic masterwork Phase 1 on Scepter Records. Featuring a young Bill Spooner...