Ram Jam Big Band — “Sunshine And I Feel Fine”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — July 21, 2025

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

1,659) Ram Jam Big Band — “Sunshine And I Feel Fine”

No, not Geno Washington’s Ram Jam band (see #903), but Australia’s horn pop masters with a “psych-dipped mod” (happening45, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJgiGWXMIPc) monster that “Blood Sweat and Tears would love to claim” (burtramone765, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZw9lDSlces) as their own.

Kimbo tells us that:

Formed in Melbourne in 1966 by Russell Smith and Terry Villis as a sophisticated jazz-pop outfit. With the addition of a brass section, it gave the group a unique identity and big sound most other groups could only get on studio recordings, when studio musicians came in to help fill the sound. The band had a big following appearing on TV shows like Uptight. The band released four singles and an EP on the Spin label with ”Sunshine And I Feel Fine” being the most successful making the Top 40. Many well-known musicians passed through its ranks as the band was plagued by many line-up changes. By 1969 they had become incredibly popular right throughout the rock music scene at a time when most groups were small combos with the traditional guitars, bass, drums and maybe a keyboard player.

https://historyofaussiemusic.blogspot.com/2013/09/ram-jam-big-band.html

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