Hipster Image — “Make Her Mine”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — May 30, 2023

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

842) Hipster Image — “Make Her Mine”

OK, you may remember this ‘65 B-side from a classic Levi’s commercial starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. But before then, it was a mod dancefloor classic — “a staple of the 60s club scene (liner notes to the The Mod Scene CD comp), “so catchy” and “an awesome pop tune with some jazz flavour” (kevin du 77, http://www.requiempouruntwister.com/2007/10/hipster-image-make-her-mine-1965.html), “a popular club single” and “an acknowledged classic” (Bruce Eder, https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hipster-image-mn0002145715), that is “[a]ccented by a driving sax lick and some cool percussion (cowbell?) and a jazzy laid back style of vocal delivery.” (Anorak Thing, https://anorakthing.blogspot.com/2012/01/hipster-image.html)

Bruce Eder:

A hot mod band of the mid-’60s discovered by Animals managers Mike Jeffries and, with one 1965 single produced by Alan Price, Hipster Image managed to become a major band on the London club scene without ever charting a record. Established around Keele University in northern Staffordshire, England, . . . [t]hey issued two soul numbers — “Little Piece of Leather” and “All for You” — onto a flexidisc issued at the university, which got them noticed by Jeffries and into a recording studio in London. . . . [T]he band was never able to sustain itself and ultimately broke up . . . .

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hipster-image-mn0002145715

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