They made records for people in the 60s who were one step behind. - Psych/Garage with a danceable twist. LA guitarist Jerry Cole were pulling the strings and issued albums under different group names:

"Are You Experienced" - T. Swift And The Electric Bag
"Up Up And Away" - The Generation Gap
"MacArthur Park" - The Stone Canyon Rock Group
"Call It Soul" - The Haircuts And The Impossibles
"Organ Freakout" - A Happening With The Mustang

- There are more...



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I'm not sure I understand. Cover version = exploitation?

There sure are cover versions among these tracks, and they also appear under a new name, and perhaps with new lyrics. Some songs are made on the spot by a band that could play at a cruise ship.



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Could you possibly post a few youtube samples so I and others can have some idea of what you're talking about?

Are you talking about this, noughties?

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Could you possibly post a few youtube samples so I and others can have some idea of what you're talking about?

I will see what I can do. I have to work on it. I have edited the headline of my post. The correct word is "exploito". Then there is "exploito psych", "exploito a go go", and so on.

- Yes, `s right, Cristiano Radtke!



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Here`s a sample:







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Here`s another one:





- Luv the hammond, don`t you?

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Here`s a sample:

Okay, so this is "Spooky" by Classics IV, but with a different title and different lyrics. Did they give credit and pay royalties to the guys who wrote the original song?



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Recorded in -67. Released in -68. No credits.

No writer credits at all? Or did this Jerry Cole person put his name on it? I guess that wouldn't be much different from what Led Zeppelin were doing at the time (recording other people's material and passing it off as their own), but I'm still a little confused as to why records like this were made. Was Cole trying to fool record buyers who didn't know any better? Or was he simply providing a generic product, so that record store guys would have something to sell if a customer said, "Hey, I really liked that "Spooky" song. You got anything else like that?"



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They were cashing in on a vibe. Milking it for all it`s worth while it all lasted, and as we know, it didn`t last long. The name Jerry Cole doesn`t appear on any of those albums. It`s only through some investigation that I found his name. They are "budget records", maan! The LP cover only talks of "Music For The Entire Family", "The Swinginest Hammond Organ Album Since The Birth of Psychedelia", that kind of stuff.



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I'm surprised I'd never heard of Cole. He had an impressive resume.

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Sounds like another way to con ignorant fans. A co-worker told me how she fell for something like this when she was teenager in the 1960s. She bought a record by "The Beetles" which was a just some unknown band covering Beatles songs.

True bottom feeders.

The 60s was such a goldmine. Talking of emotional impact, some left hand work from the 60s can be as good as any "masterpiece" from the 70s.

Speaking of Jerry Cole, his Animated Egg album has some far-out "psych", man!

I have that album Animated Egg, but it's the expanded 2008 Sundazed 21-track CD release (Guitar Freakout) featuring outtakes from Cole's other projects like The Generation Gap, T. Swift & The Electric Bag, The Projection Company, and The Stone Canyon Rock Group.