The Lemon Dips — “Who’s Gonna Buy”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — November 22, 2025

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

1,791)  The Lemon Dips — “Who’s Gonna Buy”

Dunk your Electric Banana into this yummy Lemon Dip. The psychedelic snarl seems to be a retelling of the Midnight Cowboy story. It’s a “great tune[]” with an “excellent snarling vocal[], all punched up with tons of feedback guitar and walls of keyboards”. (Surfadelic, https://surfadelic2.wordpress.com/2017/11/22/the-lemon-dips-whos-gonna-buy-1969-uk-psych/)

The LP “offered up a wonderful selection of garage rock and psych moves” (Surfadelic again) with “[l]ots of nice fuzz guitar and slightly stoned flower-power feeling”. (ultimathulerecords, https://www.discogs.com/es/release/2759729-The-Lemon-Dips-Whos-Gonna-Buy?srsltid=AfmBOop3IZ_-8t-8Y9qwzOkihA1fxEyGWjRbRj6tpsc39WGXmPANT9pS)

Vernon Joynson tells us that:

[The LP is] a collection of great psychedelic/freakbeat vocal and instrumental tracks issued on this music library label. Lemon Dips weren’t a band. All the De Wolf recordings comprised material penned by songwriters Peter Renno and Johnny Hawksworth, which was played by session musicians.

The Tapestry of Delights Revisited

As an extra special bonus, the track made it onto the soundtrack of the cult classic The Haunted House of Horror! The Geek Show tells us that:

[HHH is a] 1960s British horror movie with an all-bases-covered title. It’s the familiar tale of a group of horny and stupid teens who go to an old house for a seance and end up beset by entities even older and more sinister than Frankie Avalon, the Beach Blanket Bingo star who plays a character described as the essence of Swinging London.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3r-RmalpYjU&pp=ygUnaGF1bnRlZCBob3VzZSBvZiBob3Jyb3IgMTk2OSBsZW1vbiBkaXBh

Here is a HHH trailer:

Here is the Geek Show:

Here is HHH’s party scene:

Here is the whole flick:

Here is the instrumental version:

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