THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,633) The Burlington Express — “Memories”
B-side of the only single by the Burlington Express is garage gold, from an “excellent double-sider”. (Chris Bishop, https://garagehangover.com/burlingtonexpress/#:~:text=The%20Burlington%20Express%20from%20Topeka,Eric%20Larson%20and%20Mike%20West.) The Express was “one of Topeka[, Kansas]’s top bands in the mid to late sixties” (Kansas Music Hall of Fame, https://www.ksmhof.org/2012-inductees/#burlingtonexpress). Maybe if they had called themselves the Marrakesh Express . . .
The single was produced by Michael Chapman of the Blue Things. “They are said to have recorded several acetates”. (liner notes to the CD comp Fuzz, Flakes and Shakes: Volume 3: Stay Out of My World) The Express was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame in 2012. The KMHOF tells us that:
Members of the band were Greg Gucker, Blair Honeyman, Eric Larson and Mike West. They left behind some excellent recordings, but they sounded even better live. Lead guitarist Greg Gucker, now known as Greg Hartline, wrote most of their material, but they also covered other songs of the day.
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