feastingonroadkill:

The Kinks; ‘Victoria’

“Victoria was my Queen”

eyesturnedskyward:

The Shotgun Express - I Could Feel The Whole World Turn Round. 1966

vela:girlgroups:

“Boy, What’ll You Do Then?” by Denise & Co. (1966)

“The Denise record has legendary status in garage/psych circles. The only known copy (before this current one surfaced) was in the hands of an eccentric collector, who let a cassette recording of it slip out in the mid-1980s. The song circulated amongst various folks and eventually ended up, in dubious sound quality, as the lead track on the first volume of Girls In the Garage, a bootleg LP series issued in the wake of similar compilations like Nuggets etc, but focusing on, all-women garage records of the 60s. At that time (circa 1988) the tune was known as “Take Me As I Am”, and the bootleggers had no clue who “Denise & Co” were, or where they were from. Some years later, the record was correctly identified as “Boy What’ll You Do Then” in an article in Bay Area 60s fanzine Cream Puff War, where it was revealed that the backing was provided by Berkeley garage band the Answer, and that lead singer “Denise” was Denise Kaufman, future Merry Prankster and founding member of the Ace Of Cups, the pioneering all-women psych outfit who graced the ballrooms of late 1960s San Francisco. A wild child who blew harp on the streets of Berkeley and partied with the Hells Angels, Denise had written “Boy What’ll You Do Then” as “a total attitude song”, in response to an ex-boyfriend who had insisted they settle down.” (via Ace Records)

If anyone wants any of the Girls in the Garage albums, e-mail me. I know they’re hard to come by and I have most of the albums.