No Particular Place To Go

 

Carrol Bateman & The Untouchables
(Carrol on labels, Carroll on cover)

No Particular Place To Go

From the album "Songs from Last Night"

Smigar Records, 1966

Carroll Bateman, lead singer & guitarist and The Untouchables (Ted LeMire, sax, Tom Vanyo, bass & singer, Richie Pommer, drums).

Carroll Bateman recorded previously (in 1964) as Evans Carroll And The Tempos ("The  Monster", Bangar Records) and, with The Untouchables, had a single on Twin Town (1967)

David Carroll, nee Carroll Bernard Bateman, was born in East Grand Forks, Minnesota in 1938.  Bateman saw Elvis’s 1956 show, and started playing rock ‘n’ roll in 1962 with local bands such as the Wanderers and the Untouchables.  He developed his Elvis Presley stage act in 1970 and had maintained the same band since 1971.  

Elvis Presley stage act filmed in Las Vegas 

 

Little Queenie

 

The Furys

Little Queenie

Studio City 1026
1965

An "isolated backing track" of Little Queenie was issued by Sundazed on their Surfin' The Great Lakes : Kay Bank Studio Surf Sides of the 1960s. whose liner notes says The Furys were a Wisconsin band. 

This is perhaps their only record, but I don't know, they were so many bands named The Furys in the sixties, a name probably adopted from the Plymouth car model.

Summer Time News

 

The Shags
Concert Recordings, Minneapolis
1078-65
1965

Summer Time News


Louis Louis

The Shags played their first gig in the spring of 1965 at Ye Olde Pizza in New Ulm. The band made $10.  "More than enough to fill a car's gas tank twice," said founding member Bruce Melzer.

Melzer started The Shags while still attending New Ulm High School, joining forces with guitarist Tom Ginkel, drummer John Ginkel and rhythm guitarist Jack Volinkaty — who later wrote "Satin Sheets," Jean Pruett picked up the song in 1973 and made it a No. 1 country hit in the 1970s.  In addition, “Satin Sheets” has been recorded by a number of other famous artists including Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Barbara Fairchild and, most recently, Martina McBride

The Shags cut this record at Concert Studio in the Twin Cities. Their admittedly low-budget production included misspellings on both song titles — "Louis Louis" (instead of Louie Louie") and "Summertime News" (instead of "Summertime Blues").

The name “Shags” came from a superstitious ghost roaming around a Minnesota River road.