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Surfin' The Great Lakes comp of 60s Kay Bank Studio gems out on CD
Sundazed's CD version of their Surfin' The Great Lakes comp adds six rare bonus tracks from the Kay Bank Studio tape vault. |
Here's the scoop...
Surfin' The Great Lakes is a compilation of unreleased & rare tracks from the Twin Cities’ Kay Bank Studios featuring 22 rip snortin’ cuts – only 16 tracks on the out-of-print vinyl version – of the best surf and garage rock Kay Bank had to offer. Features The Trashmen, The Vaqueros, and more! Includes liner notes by John Blair who put together the Illustrated Discography Of Surf Music.
Kay Bank Recordings in Minneapolis was certainly one of these historic studios. It was named after the wife of owner Vernon Bank. Although he had been involved in the recording business since the late 1940s, Bank’s recording studio operation got underway in 1957 when he moved into a building that was large enough to also establish a pressing plant. The studio provided a 3-track Ampex recorder, a 12-input recording console, and a live echo chamber.
According to a 1958 article in the Minneapolis Star newspaper, Kay Bank was pressing 60,000 records each week, and Vernon Bank claimed that his studio provided the most complete facility of any other studio “between Pennsylvania and California.” The sign above the building’s entrance stated, “A Complete Recording Service From Master Tape to Pressed Record.”
Sundazed Music recently acquired a large archive of the existing Kay Bank master tapes. Some of the surf, and related, recordings in that archive are included in this compilation, all recorded between June 1964 and August 1966- at a time when the British Invasion was ravaging the sales charts.
Get a CD copy of Surfin' The Great Lakes directly from Sundazed Records right here.
Various Artists – Surfin' The Great Lakes
Jonah - The Vaqueros • Heaven’s Devil - The Boss Tweads • Caliente - The Marauders • Island In The Sun - The Vaqueros • Shot In The Dark - The Mustangs • Disintegration - The Readymen • Comin’ Home Baby - The Vaqueros • Girl Don’t Tell Me - The Satisfactions • 80 Foot Wave - The Vaqueros • Za Boo - The Valients • Bird Gasp ‘65 - The Trashmen • Surfin’ Blues - The Readymen • The Furys - Little Queenie (instrumental version) • Space Journey Ranger 7 - The Vaqueros • Surf Beat - The Chancellors • Greensleeves - The Trashmen • Wine Wine Wine (instrumental version) - The Bleach Boys* • Baba Yaga (instrumental version) - The Pagans* • Beach Girl - The Valients* • Hey Little One (instrumental version) - The Shandells* • Shortnin’ Bread (instrumental version) - The Readymen* • Lizzy Lost Her Beach Ball - T Lawrence Sherwood Greens*
*CD ONLY
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