THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,756) State of Mind — “Move”
From Wilmington, Delaware, a “[t]op flight punk rave up driven by a delicious back beat”. (danbartko164, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tgX2TvrSY), “This has to be one of the best garage punkers ever”. (revup67, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tgX2TvrSY) “[T]hat riff ,,,grunge all over it”! (mckshrmptn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tgX2TvrSY) Call it an altered state of mind!
Rhythm guitarist Paul Murtagh recalls:
The original band was formed in 1965 by . . . sophomores at William Penn High School in New Castle, Delaware. . . . In 1966, . . .Bill Sayers [joined the band and] became the new lead singer . . . . They . . . started playing . . . school functions, local dances, Battle of the Bands, etc. In the summer of 1966 . . . . [they] signed a contract to record 6 record sides over a 2 year period [with Wilmington’s Chavis Records]. . . . The [first] A side [was] “Move” . . . . [and] the main local rock station, WAMS, picked [it] as the “WAMS Wax to Watch”. Over the next 10 weeks, the record slowly climbed the WAMS Top 40 charts topping out at number 10. In addition to WAMS, the record also got play on WIBG and WFIL in Philadelphia. The success . . . opened up numerous opportunities . . . . [and] the band . . . played larger venue concerts . . . . In the fall of 1967, the State of Mind . . . cut their second record. . . . The band was very excited about the A side of this record, “Make You Cry”, feeling that, musically, it was superior to “Move” and should prove to be an even bigger seller. . . . WAMS continued to provide very strong support to the band and invited them to premiere the new song at the next concert at the Elsmere Fire Hall. . . . [But t]hree of the four members planned to attend college upon graduation [while] Sayers was committed to remaining a professional musician . . . . [He decided to] leav[e] to join the Phabulous Pharaohs . . . . Without the band’s lead singer and bass player, a shuffling of personnel took place and another local musician . . . was invited to join the band for the Elsmere gig. Unfortunately, the band was unable to reproduce the sound of their second record live for the concert so had to lip-synch the record. Following this concert, the band essentially broke up.
Finally, “[t]he owner-producer, a black minister, is said to have thrown away all his master tapes in a fit of pious conscience”! (liner notes to the CD comp Pebbles: Vol. 5: Original ’60s Punk & Psych Classics)
Here are France’s Les Playboys (’84). Fuzzmanos tells us that:
The group members are from Nice and have been friends since high school. In the mid-seventies, they were among the initiators of the punk movement in France under the name of Dentist. In 1979, they will be at the origin of the “garage sixties revival” . . . .
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