As I mentioned The Cyrkle in John Simon's album , I picked up The Cyrkle's Red Rubber Ball today! Don Dannemann and Tom Dawes met at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and formed a band called Rhondells, and Brian Epstein, The Beatle's manager at that time, found them and that led to their contract with Brian Epstein's NEMS Enterprise in 1966. They were renamed as The Cyrkle (and it is said that John Lennon provided them with their unique spelling of their new name!), and released their debut album called Red Rubber Ball . Tom Dawes toured as a bassist of Simon & Garfunkel's band, so it is said that Paul Simon gave him a song "Red Rubber Band" penned by Paul Simon and The Seeker's Bruce Woodley. This debut album was produced by John Simon as I mentioned before, and this was released from Columbia and became the first hit for both The Cyrkle and John Simon. Red Rubber Ball reached No.2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Paul Simon also reco...
Hungry Chuck - Hungry Chuck The information of Hungry Chuck is hard to come by, for they only released one album whose sales were poor and broke up soon afterward. All I know is that most memberd of Hungry Chuck played in a Canadian band called Great Speckled Bird. Great Speckled Bird were formed by Canadian duo, Ian & Sylvia in 1969. They joined Festival Express and traveled across Canada by train, along with Janis Joplin and Grateful Dead. I found a video of their performance at Festival Express on YouTube but Ian & Sylvia basically dominated the video so you can't see Great Speckled Bird a lot here lol. But their performance is awesome! Amos Garrett was one of the members of Great Speckled Bird and also Hungry Chuck formed in Woodstock, NY. FYI, Garrett played the guitar solo on Maria Muldaur's "Midnight At The Oasis." In addition, he recorded with Stevie Wonder, Todd Rundgren and Emmylou Harris. Ben Keith was also a member of both G...