Thomas Crumpton Moonpieplace I've heard it said that "Beach Music" (Carolina Beach Music) died Dec. 31, 1969. This was the music of Myrtle Beach, P.C. and the Old Dutch. One of the last great "beach music" songs, Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy, had begun to fade. It was written by the late Ray Whitley and JR Cobb. It was the consummate type of beach and frat party music. As The Beatles, Clapton, Hendrix, etc. began to take over in the late '60's, a whole new rock n roll fever turned from beach parties to rock festivals. I know the RGs, a beach music band, tried to change in that direction, to no avail. Don't get me wrong, I loved Clapton and Hendrix, I just couldn't play it well. In '68, I felt it coming. I went with the RGs to Calif. in '68, but it just didn't work out. That's when I stopped being a professional musician and just became a fan of rocknroll. Music was turned upside down. After '68, I never went back to the Old Dutch. Don't know what was being played at the beach in '68. Instead, I went to the Pop fests in Atlanta in '69 and '70 and became an ABB fan. But, you know, now as a vinyl record collector and seller, I love all of it. Long live rock n roll......."you take some music, music....free flowing music"........sing it Sonny Grier.
As I prepare for my presentation on THE OLD DUTCH next month, I'm trying to describe how highly influential Hendrix and Clapton were to the type of music played in the Southeast during the Summer of '68. Here's my first stab at it and I'd appreciate ALL COMMENTS :
"50 years ago, in the winter of '68, entertainers playing the southeastern club circuit were putting together their set lists for another summer season but it wasn't gonna be easy divining the future of musical entertainment in the Gulf South. Hendrix had released ARE YOU EXPERIENCED and Cream had finally broken through with DISRAELI GEARS. Suddenly, things didn't seem so certain for the future of the rhythmic horn arrangements so popular in the mid-Sixties world of blue-eyed soul music and frat-rock. The blaring horn sections of bands that had become a standard in the beach music scene were giving way to rhythm sections which supported the GUITAR GOD. Change was in the air...."
The impact of the Stones' SATISFACTION upon the sale of fuzz boxes in 1965 (from Wikipedia) : "The group re-recorded it two days later at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California, with a different beat and the Maestro fuzzbox adding sustain to the sound of the guitar riff.[8][9] Richards envisioned redoing the track later with a horn section playing the riff: "this was just a little sketch, because, to my mind, the fuzz tone was really there to denote what the horns would be doing."[8] The other Rolling Stones, as well as producer and manager Andrew Loog Oldham and sound engineer David Hassinger eventually outvoted Richards and Jagger so the track was selected for release as a single.[9][10] The song's success boosted sales of the Gibson fuzzbox so that the entire available stock sold out by the end of 1965."
FROM EL ROD of THE QUARRYMEN (later with RABBIT BRANCH): The set list we played summer of 69 in the Old Dutch, in addition to Satisfaction and The Last Time, included These Eyes, One is the Loneliest Number, Keep Me Hanging On, Proud Mary, It’s Not Unusual, Time Has Come Today, Sittin’ on the Dock, and of course the standard Wilson Picket, Smokey, Otis tunes, complete with Shout to finish the night/morning!
John Curry's description of Eddie Hinton's (2018 posthumous inductee into the ALABAMA MUSIC HALL OF FAME) summer at the OLD DUTCH. : In the Spring of ' 65 an opportunity developed for the band that changed us and Eddie forever. There was a club down on Panama City Beach called the Old Dutch Inn. It was the college hangout. All the hot local bands and a lot of regional and national bands wound up being featured there from time-to-time. We were rehearsing one day when Eddie showed up, all excited. He said,"Aw, man, this is it! They want us to be the house band for the summer. They're going to pay us one hundred dollars each per week and give us free food and lodging! This is our break, guys! We're fixin' to bust out of here!"
As I prepare for my presentation on THE OLD DUTCH next month, I'm trying to describe how highly influential Hendrix and Clapton were to the type of music played in the Southeast during the Summer of '68. Here's my first stab at it and I'd appreciate ALL COMMENTS :
"50 years ago, in the winter of '68, entertainers playing the southeastern club circuit were putting together their set lists for another summer season but it wasn't gonna be easy divining the future of musical entertainment in the Gulf South. Hendrix had released ARE YOU EXPERIENCED and Cream had finally broken through with DISRAELI GEARS. Suddenly, things didn't seem so certain for the future of the rhythmic horn arrangements so popular in the mid-Sixties world of blue-eyed soul music and frat-rock. The blaring horn sections of bands that had become a standard in the beach music scene were giving way to rhythm sections which supported the GUITAR GOD. Change was in the air...."
The impact of the Stones' SATISFACTION upon the sale of fuzz boxes in 1965 (from Wikipedia) : "The group re-recorded it two days later at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California, with a different beat and the Maestro fuzzbox adding sustain to the sound of the guitar riff.[8][9] Richards envisioned redoing the track later with a horn section playing the riff: "this was just a little sketch, because, to my mind, the fuzz tone was really there to denote what the horns would be doing."[8] The other Rolling Stones, as well as producer and manager Andrew Loog Oldham and sound engineer David Hassinger eventually outvoted Richards and Jagger so the track was selected for release as a single.[9][10] The song's success boosted sales of the Gibson fuzzbox so that the entire available stock sold out by the end of 1965."
FROM EL ROD of THE QUARRYMEN (later with RABBIT BRANCH): The set list we played summer of 69 in the Old Dutch, in addition to Satisfaction and The Last Time, included These Eyes, One is the Loneliest Number, Keep Me Hanging On, Proud Mary, It’s Not Unusual, Time Has Come Today, Sittin’ on the Dock, and of course the standard Wilson Picket, Smokey, Otis tunes, complete with Shout to finish the night/morning!
John Curry's description of Eddie Hinton's (2018 posthumous inductee into the ALABAMA MUSIC HALL OF FAME) summer at the OLD DUTCH. : In the Spring of ' 65 an opportunity developed for the band that changed us and Eddie forever. There was a club down on Panama City Beach called the Old Dutch Inn. It was the college hangout. All the hot local bands and a lot of regional and national bands wound up being featured there from time-to-time. We were rehearsing one day when Eddie showed up, all excited. He said,"Aw, man, this is it! They want us to be the house band for the summer. They're going to pay us one hundred dollars each per week and give us free food and lodging! This is our break, guys! We're fixin' to bust out of here!"
Well, Chiz had just graduated and was also married and had a son. He had to do a tour in the army and was to report to Ft. Jackson as a second Lieutenant in August, having been in the ROTC. Viet Nam was also heating up. As for me, I had graduated in ' 63, gotten married, became a father, and we had just opened Curry furniture store that spring. We couldn't take the job no matter what.
Eddie was real disappointed and he said, "Well you just can't do this to me. I'm going to go down there and figure out something. I'll be back in the Fall." Fall was our "season". We played fraternity parties and clubs and we had booked a great number of jobs already for the coming season.
Well, Eddie went down to Panama City Beach and put together a band and took the job at The Old Dutch Inn. He called the group the Five Minutes. He never came back to the Spooks.
a correction from Paul Hornsby,"Well, there's a small error in John Curry's time line. "The 5 Minutes" group wasn't formed by Eddie Hinton. We (The Minutes) formed in the summer of 1964. I was in a band called "The Pacers". We were supposed to play the Old Dutch that summer but the band broke up a week or so before that gig started. I, with a couple of other band members searched around and found Johnny Sandlin and Charlie Campbell up in Decatur, Ala. We struck out for the gulf coast searching for a gig for the summer. We were too late to get the Old Dutch job. We actually, never got to play there. We named the band "The 5 Minutes" and went over to Pensacola where we landed a job at the Pensacola Beach Casino. We played at the Casino that summer plus the following summer of 1965, when we added Eddie Hinton. In 1966 we trimmed the band down to a 4 piece and played the Pensacola Beach Spanish Village. That fall, we took the group on the road, playing club dates all over the south and midwest. We broke up early in 1967, with Eddie moving to Muscle Shoals to become a session player".
from Bill Elrod: The set list we played summer of 69 in the Old Dutch, in addition to Satisfaction and The Last Time, included These Eyes, One is the Loneliest Number, Keep Me Hanging On, Proud Mary, It’s Not Unusual, Time Has Come Today, Sittin’ on the Dock, and of course the standard Wilson Picket, Smokey, Otis tunes, complete with Shout to finish the night/morning!
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