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Welcome to the Sundazed DJ Series: incredible, dance-floor-worthy 7" singles, filled with amazing surf sounds, obscenely rare garage, incredible soul blasts, and other worthy genres without limit! We'll bring back long-lost gems, AND the singles you always wished existed, scouring the vaults for rarities and unissued cuts, from the original masters, and each with cool label reproductions whenever possible. They're licensed from the repertoire owners, making this the first 100% legit line of 45...

Welcome to the Sundazed DJ Series: incredible, dance-floor-worthy 7" singles, filled with amazing surf sounds, obscenely rare garage, incredible soul blasts, and other worthy genres without limit! We'll bring back long-lost gems, AND the singles you always wished existed, scouring the vaults for rarities and unissued cuts, from the original masters, and each with cool label reproductions whenever possible. They're licensed from the repertoire owners, making this the first 100% legit line of 45...

Garage fans agree: We The People's raging, tough-as-nails punk tracks "Mirror of Your Mind" and "You Burn Me Up and Down" rate among the era's best. But believe it or not this band was capable of even more. Along with the above two hammer-down classics, Too Much Noise collates everything the seminal--and surprisingly diverse--Central Florida outfit cut for the Challenge label during the band's mid-'60s heyday, including the raga-rock fave "In the Past" (covered by the Chocolate Watchband) and...

Now On Limited Edition Colored VinylDuring the golden age of '60s garage rock, Chicago was a hotbed of raw rock 'n' roll activity, spawning a wide array of hard-hitting homegrown combos. Suburban teen-club heroes the Del-Vetts were one of the best things to rise from that fertile Windy City scene, creating some of the era's punchiest proto-punk!With legendary local garage godfather Bill Traut (The Nazz, Shadows of Night) producing, the Del-Vetts released four singles on four different labels...

For this latest excavation of treasures from the vaults, buried (by the squares) circa 1966 A.D., we once again present a king's ransom of devastating vintage garage band single sides and rarities. Among this volume's musical rogues gallery, expect everything from bruisingly upbeat screamers to longhaired R&B lunacy. And because it's good for you, we've included an unhealthy dose of some of the darkest, most disturbingly intense records from the summer of hate. Includes: In The Past - We The...

> The short-lived Viva Records label was one wildly eclectic outfit. Helmed by hitmaker Snuff Garrett, this Los Angeles-based imprint targeted the teen marketplace with a series of extraordinary garage / psych / pop singles. The label’s command of popular styles prevailed across these Top 40 hopefuls, ranging from the stomping beat of the Shindogs to the psych-fuzz nirvana of the Sound Sandwich. And there’s Class of ’66 garage-grunge from the Wailers and the Second Helping (yes, that’s a...

When it comes to combing through the Knickerbockers tape archives, Sundazed prides ourselves on having chased down every inch of tape on our heroes. The one recording that's eluded us all these years, though, is the legendary lost yuletide effort, "I Want a Girl For Christmas". Well, we've finally got it direct from the original session demo tape. With its amazing vocal arrangement, this'll remind one and all that the Knickerbockers made better demos than most groups' masters. Equally stunning...

7" single. Now on Translucent Gold Vinyl! Anytime we can offer up a mid-sixties garage band from our favorite hotbed, the Windy City (particularly a combo citing Them and the Pretty Things as faves!!), good things can be expected for the beat-crazed connoisseur. Now, when it turns out to be one of the RAREST of all '66 garage singles, namely the Rooks' classic two-sider, "A Girl Like You"/"Empty Heart", it's an EVENT. The Them influence bled heavily into their own classic "A Girl Like You" --...

Link Wray has always been the undisputed king of the six-string krunch! Law of the Jungle corrals 15 deadly studio recordings waxed at Ray Vernon's studio in 1964--recordings that inexplicably remained shelved for decades. These amp-melting demos represent some of the roughest, toughest Link Wray workouts in existence! Also available on LP! Includes: Law Of The Jungle • Ace Of Spades • 5-10-15-20 (Can Your Monkey Do The Dog) • Bo Diddley • Mustang • Frenchy • Begin The Beguine • Deuces Wild •...

Pressed at R.T.I. Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray was a man out of time. He lived in the future, waiting for the rest of the music world to catch up. Anticipating vital elements of punk, psych, surf, metal and more well before they happened, he invented large swaths of the basic electric guitar vocabulary. His use of distortion and power chords, in particular, are essential to the rock lexicon. Every 45 he released was another lesson, eagerly studied by fledgling guitarists around the world. About...

Check out the artists and song titles on this disc. They'll serve as a once 'n' final warning for anyone thinkin' they've just scored some nostalgic good vibrations from the feelin' groovy sixties (Congratulations, you're about to buy the wrong collection, bub). No, what we have here is the untold, bad-attitude underbelly of that decade's rock 'n' revolution; a teenage nation that churned out thousands of raging garage records that rarely escaped Hometown U.S.A. obscurity. These are the 45 rpm...

Check out the artists and song titles on this disc. They'll serve as a once 'n' final warning for anyone thinkin' they've just scored some nostalgic good vibrations from the feelin' groovy sixties (Congratulations, you're about to buy the wrong collection, bub). No, what we have here is the untold, bad-attitude underbelly of that decade's rock 'n' revolution; a teenage nation that churned out thousands of raging garage records that rarely escaped Hometown U.S.A. obscurity. These are the 45 rpm...

As Arthur Lee entered the studio to begin the sessions for 1969?s Four Sail, he was the only remaining band member from the previous three LPs? lineups. Enlisting the aid of Frank Fayad on bass, George Suranovich and Drachen Theaker on drums and Jay Donnellan on guitar, Lee launched a marathon recording session. Elektra culled through the session tapes, selecting the best songs for inclusion on the album. With the exception of ?Singing Cowboy,? which he co-wrote with Donnellan, all tracks were...

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 heavy-duty compact disc edition of the group's 1966 Jerden...

Exploding from AM radio speakers everywhere in 1965, The Knickerbockers' "Lies" is a certified '60s classic. Much has been made over its sonic similarity to the Beatles, particularly the Lennon-esque lead vocals. True, it is remarkable in that regard but what is often overlooked is just how GREAT the song is in its own right. Written by band members Beau Charles and Buddy Randell, it is a superbly crafted composition that could have been a hit for any number of artists. That the...

Now on Limited Edition Translucent Gold Vinyl! As this eight song flashback attests, there's a page of history reserved especially for the Knaves, Chicago's original rock 'n' roll vice squad, if for no other reason than "Leave Me Alone," the most outrageous, in-your-face anthem of the mid-sixties garage band boom. Unlike most garage records with their lyrical emphasis on boy-girl post-breakup teenage rage, the Knaves aimed for a more elevated target, the Establishment. And to put it mildly,...

Though they found worldwide fame in 1969, Winnipeg's Guess Who had been scoring scads of hard-rockin' hits in Canada for years, beginning with 1965's ferocious rendition of "Shakin' All Over." Now, spurred by the recent unearthing of a bevy of vintage master tapes?and with the help of Guess Who guitarist Randy Bachman?we've gathered 24 of The Guess Who's hardest-hitting, most awesome recordings from '63-'67. With many tracks in true stereo and a handful of cuts that haven't seen daylight for...

Primo L.A. folk-punk! Take a pinch of Byrds, add a heaping teaspoon of Love, and you've got the happening Leaves, prime movers on the Sunset Strip scene, who hit the charts with the most manic "Hey Joe" you'll ever hear. The Leaves Are Happening! collects the complete Mira recordings, including the entire Hey Joe album, plus all rare single sides, cool photos and more!Includes:Dr. Stone • Just A Memory • Get Out Of My Life Woman • Girl From The East • He Was A Friend Of Mine • Hey Joe • Words...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

The haunted fuzz and ghostly Farfisa of of Fresno's the Road Runners will turn what's left of your brains to Malt-O-Meal. Results of secret marketing surveys assure us that this unreleased gem is running neck-and-neck with the Watchband, the Standells and the Music Machine in the '66 Punk Hall Of Fame Marathon! Includes: Nighttime Love • Goodbye • Little Miss Love • I’ll Make It Up To You • Tell Her You Love Her • Sleepy Friend • I Got To Get Away • Pretty Me • 2120 South Michigan Avenue...

The original overview/collection from the legendary band. On Sundazed compact disc and 180gm vinyl, from the original masters. Originally released as part of MGM's "Golden Archive Series," this 1970 album (simply referred to as Velvet Underground) is a terrific sin-and-salvation selection from the first three VU albums ? just the kind of thing to take along to a desert island or to the end of the world. It's essentially their earliest greatest hits collection, and the perfect encapsulation of...

Rockabilly from the earliest days! Recorded in Texas and issued during rock and roll's initial explosion, the top-dollar sides inside will soon have your heart pounding and your floor shaking. Both discs are styled like MGM EPs of the era and feature right-in-the-studio sound'be there with the rockin,' rollin,' jumpin' crazy stone himself! Includes:Rockin’ Rollin’ Stone • I Wanna Go South • She’s A Going Jessie • Old Deacon Jones • Round And Round • Give Me A Woman • One More Time • No Room...

Two unreal sides of prime 1965 garage rock from the Standells! This single--originally on MGM Records--couples the theme from "Zebra in the Kitchen," a Jay North movie romp starring zoo animals, with longtime fan favorite "Someday You'll Cry." A color sleeve includes new reminiscences by founding member Larry Tamblyn.Includes:Someday You’ll Cry • Zebra In The Kitchen

Come to the sun-sounds with legendary songsmith Van Dyke Parks' jubilant masterpiece "Come to the Sunshine!" A colorful wash of coastline and courtship, this bass-and-mandolin-driven 1966 single is now presented in a new sleeve featuring a stunning photo of Parks from the era, plus liner notes by Domenic Priore.Includes:Come To The Sunshine • Farther Along

A VAULT OF VINTAGE PSYCHEDELIA on Vinyl The Strawberry Alarm Clock's unique sound "full of beautiful, day-glo pop surrounding jagged, fuzzy guitars and organs, among other garage-rock influences" is explored through a number of dreamlike gems contained in these three volumes, all presented as originally issued! Their smash "Incense and Peppermints," which reached #1 in late 1967 and remained in the Billboard pop chart for 16 weeks, is included on The Best of Strawberry Alarm Clock, and Wake...

The unearthly, savage, Rolling Stones/Pretty Things-inspired treatment of R&B classics as interpreted by the Druids of Stonehenge on SUNDAZED ten-inch vinyl is a phenomenon that quite simply has to be heard to be believed. When frontman David Budge cuts loose on such familiar '60s staples as "Who Do You Love," "I Put A Spell On You," "Pretty Thing" and "Bald Headed Woman," it's almost as though he's being strangled by Bo Diddley's "cobra snake necktie" with eyes popping, cartoon-like, out of...

Box set contains seven (7) 45 rpm 7" vinyl singles, with exact repros of rare VU picture sleeves and labels, liner notes, rare photos, and more. Sundazed is proud to release The Velvet Underground Singles 1966-69, a 7 x 7" single box set honoring the legendary New York combo's 7" vinyl output in their rare mono versions. The set features exact reproductions of Velvet Underground singles, two of them with their original picture sleeves. The singles are packaged in a distinctively designed box,...

Making his radio debut at age 5, San Antonio native Doug Sahm began a lifelong musical journey that led him through many branches of American roots music. Sourced from the original Mercury session tapes, these tracks honor Sahm's legacy by carrying his musical alchemy forward into a new century. "You just can't live in Texas if you don't have a lot of soul," Sahm once sang and, truly, he possessed un alma eterna triunfante. Includes:Mendocino • Que Sera Manana • Nuevo Loredo • La Luna Fue...

A Sundazed re-release...back by popular demand! The last great San Jose, Calif. band has a debut album at last! 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 on wax-until now. We've recently uncovered three powerful 1967 cover versions--the Who's "Run, Run, Run," Cream's "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" and Love's "Signed D.C."-to complete a package combining...

In a special arrangement with Spinout Records: ON COLORED VINYL! Think the true spirit and sound of the '60s exists only in the ring-worn covers and greyed out grooves of your discs from 1967?!? "Coffin Dragger," the second single by Bob Irwin and the Pluto Walkers, will change--and blow--your mind! Specially selected from the musicians' new full-length album, The Throwaway Age, this disc is as perfect an encapsulation of a lost era as you will find--a stomping, fuzztone-infected tribute to...

Upon being knocked sideways by hearing Link Wray for the first time, one anonymous online enthusiast exclaimed, "What year is this stuff?!? Was this guy sent from the future?" Indeed, even now, Wray's snarling six-string attack sounds years ahead of its time. Through intrepid detective work, Sundazed unearthed the original Mala mono master tapes for these four sides and pulled them from the brink of extinction. Packaged in a striking picture sleeve created specially for this release, this...

Mono edition!The Lies LP, recorded in Hollywood with songwriting contributions from the likes of Glen Campbell, Jim Seals and Jerry Fuller, surrounds its iconic title hit with an eclectic assortment of tunes, including the catchy melodic gems "I Can Do It Better" and "Just One Girl," the widescreen pop experiment "I Believe in Her" and distinctive renditions of the durable standards "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Harlem Nocturne."Although they ironically rode the faux-English sound of "Lies"...

Mono edition!Although the Knickerbockers hailed from Bergenfield, New Jersey, anyone listening to the radio in early 1966 would have sworn that they were from Liverpool. That's when the band's overpoweringly infectious signature tune "Lies" stormed the AM airwaves, convincing many stateside listeners that they were hearing a fab new Beatles single.Jerk and Twine Time emphasizes the raw immediacy of the Knickerbockers' origins as a live band. Beyond the dance-craze anthem "Jerk Town" and the...

Now On Colored Vinyl! Was there a more influential band from the West Coast's Class of '66 punks??? If any convincing is required, listen no further than the Watch Band's pulverizing take on "In the Midnight Hour." In a tradition established with their first official single, "Sweet Young Thing," this outtake features an absolutely stunning rhythm track coupled with frontman Dave Aguilar's raving original vocal. Definitive! (Inexplicably, the orig. producers chose to replace Aguilar's superior...

Ever wish you could travel back in time and be in the thick of the 1960s rock explosion? Well, until an actual TARDIS is perfected, this album is the next best thing. Recorded in the wee hours of May 26, 1966, A Session with the Remains is a no-holds barred romp through their club set, captured live-to-tape in Capitol Records' studios. Recorded as an audition for the label, the albums seethes and snarls, twists and shouts, rocks and rolls and generally embodies the force of nature that was the...

Mono A & B sides singles collection from influential Tex-Mex combo! Texas-bred singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Doug Sahm was one of the most important musicians ever to emerge from the Lone Star state, and an inspiration to multiple generations of roots-conscious rock 'n' rollers. Sahm did much of his most beloved work as leader of the seminal Sir Douglas Quintet, the audaciously eclectic band that first burst onto the national scene in 1965. With trusty sidekick Augie Meyers providing...

The rock world has always been perilous and unpredictable, especially during the turbulent '60s. Following a tour to support their debut LP and hit single "Talk Talk," the Music Machine suddenly splintered due to internal conflicts, leaving group leader Sean Bonniwell as the sole remaining member. Undeterred, he signed with Warner Brothers and, rechristened as the Bonniwell Music Machine, he set about crafting a follow up album.Bonniwell built the LP track by track, starting with songs...

The Inner Mystique, the hypnotic second album by the Chocolate Watch Band, takes up exactly where its sacred predecessor left you: looking for your perfect match at the local Love-In. When Watch Band lead singer par excellence Dave Aguilar grabs you by the lapels and tells you "I'm Not Everybody Else," you have no choice but to believe him. He's not. And when session vocalist Don Bennett extols the virtues of "Medication," who could doubt his sincerity? Especially when he stokes the fires to...

Though the '60s garage band explosion was felt in every corner of the country, the local uprising of talent in Chicago thrived unlike anywhere else. The Windy City had the perfect infrastructure in place; from a booming population of teenagers, to hip music stores in every suburb, a proliferation of teen clubs willing to take their money, and a powerhouse radio station (WLS) equally up to promoting local bands.When it came to giving local groups a shot at 45 rpm fame, no Chicago label--not...