The Other Four — “Once and for All Girl”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 6, 2025

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

1,644) The Other Four — “Once and for All Girl”

If the Byrds were a garage rock band . . . a “top notch Byrds-inspired track bordering on psychedelia” (Tony Sanchez with the help of Mike Stax, liner notes to the CD comp Fuzz, Flaykes, & Shakes: Volume 3: Stay Out of My World), with a “folk-rockish riff that sounded a bit like the Monkees at their hardest-rocking”. (Richie Unterberger, https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-other-four-mn0000657741#biography) “Baby, I’m not a fool!”

Richie Unterberger tells us of the Other Four:

The Other Four were a San Diego garage band that released three singles in 1965 and 1966, the last of them appearing on the Decca label. Most of the group had played in the Man-Dells . . . . The Other Four’s 45s were . . . rather unexceptional efforts that were pretty typical of what countless other bands in the United States were doing at the time. . . . Members Rick Randle and Norman Lombardo later played together (and were the songwriters for) the Brain Police, a San Diego psychedelic group that recorded an obscure demo album in 1968.

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-other-four-mn0000657741#biography

Was the band’s name a play on the Fab Four?

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