The Adapters from Delaware

[Frantic]

This popped up on a reel to reel group i belong to. Has anyone heard of the Adapters from Delaware?

 

[MopTopMike]

Guys from Newark & Smyra, Delaware.
They have several 45s. One is the Elvis lead vocal style garage tune from 65, "Confess";
one of the Mongomery label in '66, "Why (Lonnie Mack re-do);
the last release is "I Love The Love I Love To Love" on the California Moonglow label in '67.

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Montgomery Records label mogul Leonard Schwab spoke proudly of his Phil Spector
connections (even showing me several 60s-vintage Christmas cards from Phil) during a
1992 interview I had with him in Maryland. That would help explain the Moonglow Records
deal that gave some West Coast distribution to The Adapters records via that CA label.
Schwab also operated several other D.C. area labels with and without the involvement of
Vermillion Records owner Ray Vernon/Vernon Wray (including Vector which released the
boss Mister's Virtue single)...as well as managing both R&B hitmaker Little Anthony (Gourdine)
and The Creatures/Creatures Incorporated (the Rome, NY group known for their cool Zombies
pastiche "Letters Of Love" in 1965). He was a pretty busy guy back then...lol

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Just found this on the "iNterWeb"...a little story I hadn't heard about another Schwab-managed group:

The Tower of London of Annapolis

The "Annapolis sound" and the group that filled in for a marching band at the US Naval Academy in 1965. || Mike Apichella

www.splicetoday.com

 

[Al.Burnett1966]

Just found this on the "iNterWeb"...a little story I hadn't heard about another Schwab-managed group:

The Tower of London of Annapolis

The "Annapolis sound" and the group that filled in for a marching band at the US Naval Academy in 1965. || Mike Apichella

www.splicetoday.com

Insane that their "Perpetual Dreamer" hasn't been reissued yet, prime stuff

 

[greenfuzz]

Insane that their "Perpetual Dreamer" hasn't been reissued yet, prime stuff

Definitely great stuff.

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Insane that their "Perpetual Dreamer" hasn't been reissued yet, prime stuff

When I interviewed Shep Tullier (lead vocals/bass) in the 90s, he called up the two other band members who were still local and
between the three of them, they came up with just one VG- copy of the record that turned out to be cracked! That was in an
Annapolis suburb with the quaint name of Parole, MD...lol

 

[Al.Burnett1966]

When I interviewed Shep Tullier (lead vocals/bass) in the 90s, he called up the two other band members who were still local and
between the three of them, they came up with just one VG- copy of the record that turned out to be cracked! That was in an
Annapolis suburb with the quaint name of Parole, MD...lol

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Looks like a nice neighborhood!
Was your interview published somewhere? I'd be interested to read

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Looks like a nice neighborhood!
Was your interview published somewhere? I'd be interested to read

Never got to the "part two" phase, unfortunately.
Schwab was an interesting guy, there was a lot more
of a story to tell there.