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Shindig was mostly shot in black and white - ABC didn't go whole hog with color broadcasting until '67; they had a couple shows like The Flinstones, Beany and Cecil and Top Cat before then, by '66 they were partway there with color shows like Batman, The FBI and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea...

That was killer - Ty still has that snarling sound from back in the day. KEXP has also done a couple live Sonics sets - those are well worth searching out on youtube.

I was born just before Shindig premiered - being able to see so many groups when they were hot (and actually playing and singing instead of singing along to a tape) is a treat. There's also a Hullabaloo episode posted in beautiful Living Color (the only complete episode known to survive in...

Nosing around on youtube and hit a motherlode - the entire run of Shindig episodes are here: Live KInks? Live Yardbirds? Hot damn, British Invasion acts galore, Jerry Lee Lewis slamming the 88s, The Beach Boys sounding great - just about everyting is performed live although, as usual, The DC5...

The autographed sleeve is a nice bonus. 😎

Not on Youtube, but want the poop on Skoop Records? Santa Claus, Indiana was host to Ray Scrivener's family of labels including Showboat - here's a history lesson from WFYI: https://www.wfyi.org/programs/cultural-manifesto/radio/music-from-santa-claus

Interesting that Columbia groups are being made available - it seems like some of the major labels that released garage tunes (CBS and Decca come to mind) didn't rerelease or license any one shots in the cd era. Were they charging outrageous licensing fees or had ridiculous minimum run numbers...

That 10% would be the heavy sellers/bulk generators to the bottom line and they would have been the first things digitized (a flawed storage format long term, nothing beats good old analog tape for longevity, who knows what Sony 1610 digital dubs will do in the long term) - there's also foreign...

Universal will do just fine, they no longer have to warehouse that mountain of audio tapes, film and video elements - the vault was over-insured and it appears they received $350 million (sourced this info from the Both Sides Now site where one of the moderators is an industry insider who got...

MCA/Universal always seemed ro be the hardest of the big labels to get anything done in the US as far as garage reissues are concerned. I imagine the vault fire (aside from Universal getting a hefty insurance check) also found a great new way to avoid licensing material: “Sorry, those...

Odds are really good they're toast; pre-fire, what sort of garage catalog had MCA/Universal managed to pull together? Given their rockabilly holdings, which were extensive, did they have a trove of garage tunes that were waiting for someone to cough up the money to license them? Ace would seem...

Kapp is a MCA/Universal label - it seems like the MCA family of labels hasn't had a very good track record of garage reissues (did the Decca/Kapp/Dot /ABC/Paramount/Uni and other MCA affiliated owned labels dive very far into the 60s garage scene)? The hits like Little Black Egg and Incense and...

Is it a true/actual mono mix, or a fold of the stereo mix?

IA material on cd has ranged from garbage to meh to maybe so-so. Unless you can listen to one first you best skip buying any and avoid getting a sh*tty sounding disappointment...