[ERA : 60s / Garage Punk, Rock ]
Big Beat label.Three of the quirkier imprints from Hollywood's heyday in the mid-1960s were the record labels Doré, Era and Mira. Like most seasoned indie producers in that epoch, their owners Lew Bedell, Herb Newman and Randy Wood struggled to get to grips with the onslaught of rock'n'roll activity that followed in the wake of the British Invasion. But amongst each company's catalogue of R&B, pop schlock and novelty discs were a number of outstanding garage and proto-psych 45s that today are sought-after collectors' items. This CD collects together the best of this venerated repertoire in a power-packed set that also constitutes the first official reissue for many oft-bootlegged titles. Here, with top-notch sound and extensive annotation, these totemic garage rock items shine brighter than ever. An unexpected bonus is a superb unreleased cut by Hey Joe hitmakers the Leaves, along with off-beat garage-psych titles by Simon T Stokes, the Outlaw Blues and the Wrench. /
My Baby's Barefoot - Syndicate * Do Me a Favor - Leaves * Gotta Hold on - No-Na-Mees * The Thief - Motion * So What!! - Lyrics * Leave Me Behind - South Hampton Story * Big City Blues - Simon T Stokes * The Other Half - Yesterday's Tomorrow * Worryin' Kind - Regents * She Touched My Soul - John Winfield JR * Slander - Ty Wagner * Now You Say We're Through - Puddin' Heads * They Can't Hurt Me - Lyrics * I'll Blow My Mind - Spencer's Van Dykes * I'm Gonna Dance - Decades * The Day Is Hard - Wrench * Climate - Search * Just Wanna Be Myself - No-Na-Mees * Non-Stop Blues - Outlaw Blues * Shame - Front Page & Her * Forget Me Girl - Bees * She's Gone - Tormentors * It's No Use - Basil & the Baroques * To Make a Lie - Unknown Artist * Cobwebs - Simon T Stokes