The Scholars

[chas_kit]

clean image, great record!
http://www.garagehangover.com/?q=Scholars

Anyone have the Crude PA album? - Are there any notes in there about these guys?

 

[MopTopMike]

I checked my Crude PA comp and it seems I never got the insert with DB's liner notes when I bought it!

 

[Rich Strauss]

Here's what the liner notes say:

7. THE SCHOLARS - "I'm Gonna Make It"

From the Port Richmond section of Philly, The Scholars
were actually scholars, attending Drexel and Temple
Universities when their only 45 came out in Feb.'67 on
Ruby Ray records- "I need your lovin"/ "Please Please".
"I'm gonna make it" was left over from that session and
never got past the acetate stage. However, it features
some great group harmony combined with the garage
band sound which has been recently referred to as
"garage doo-wop". The accapella / group harmony sound
was still in full swing as late as 1968 because in Philly
you were either in a rock band or sang in a greaser
accapella vocal group.

-- Rich

 

[chas_kit]

Thanks Rich - it gives no band members' names, as I suspected.

 

[paul messis]

Is that a picture of the inside of the Infamous 'Virtue' recording facility?.... I wonder if any of those old cats at the back are the voice which goes "Pepsi Cola is proud to present the Effects and The Travellers"

Paul

 

[chas_kit]

It's Cameo Parkway Studio which isn't the same thing as Virtue's, unless I'm wrong about that.

 

[paul messis]

Cool.... I'd love to see a pic of 'Virtue's' set up... I am a geek when it comes to studio shots.

 

[Spirit of '66]

I noticed this Scholars thread and thought you might like to see this promo card that was stuffed in another Ruby Ray artist's pic sleeve. It looks like they thought they had a hit on their hands:

 

[chas_kit]

wow, really cool PS and insert - what a bizarre looking group. How's that record?

 

[Spirit of '66]

wow, really cool PS and insert - what a bizarre looking group. How's that record?

It's sorta like a tepid C&W/60's Rock hybrid with torturous tempo shifts. After the insert and pic sleeve, the actual music places a distant 3rd entertainment-wise.