THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,820) The Dutch Masters — “The Expectation”
This “incredible 60’s Punk Gem” (HemjVic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Sj1T661JnYQ&list=RDSj1T661JnYQ&start_radio=1) has an insistent groove that just socks it to you.
Bayard writes:
[It] is outstanding, mid to uptempo, garage rock with a great beat, performed by sustained Hammond organ, a repetitive, insistent guitar phrase, bass and drums, fuzzy guitar runs appearing at times, and featuring a powerful organ led break, Lemmie Ogles delivering a fine, enthusiastic vocal, the record climaxing in a brief psychedelic [organ] crescendo . . . replicating a backwards played record.
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/dutch-masters/the-expectation-youre-nearby-me/
Harold Ott adds:
[It] has long been hailed as an amazing example of garage rock . . . . The explosion sound effects . . . were made by [organist Reagan] Perry shaking his organ’s spring reverb unit. [Bassist] Terry [Ogles] started playing a pattern that sounded like a backwards record so they added it to the end of the recording. There were no outside sound effects added, just the band. [Label owner Earl] Fox didn’t make a request for a psychedelic record, Johnson remembers that it just evolved that way.
https://arktimes.com/rock-candy/2015/08/21/psych-of-the-south-dutch-masters-the-expectation
Ott lights up the Dutch Masters:
The group began as The Breakaways at Forest Heights Junior High in Little Rock circa 1964. After several lineup changes, [it] evolved into the Dutch Masters, a name inspired by groups like Paul Revere and the Raiders [see #109]. Like that group, the Dutch Masters’ front man Earl Denton wanted them to dress up like the guys on the famous cigar box as a gimmick to get attention. Earl Fox was the owner of E&M Recording Studio . . . and took the band under his wing, letting them rehearse in the studio. He had a booking agency in the front office and kept the band busy playing all over the state. Fox wanted the group to make a record on his MY label, so they found a song on a compilation tape of Nashville songwriters called “Burnin Up the Wires.” . . . Fox released the single in February of 1967 and it was a hit at Henderson College in Arkadelphia. Denton got married and had a kid shortly before heading to Vietnam in the Marines. The rest of the group left shortly after the record was released. This left John Walthall, lead guitar, and [rhythm guitarist Blake] Schaefer to completely reform the band. . . . For the new group, Walthall and Schaefer wanted to follow through on the costume idea and [organist Reagan] Perry’s mother made the outfits. . . . To supplement the group, Fox added two black singers named Preston and Cheryl. When Fox booked the band, the client might ask for a R&B group, and he would augment the band with Preston . . . and Cheryl . . . making the Dutch Masters an early integrated group in Little Rock. . . . A session was booked at E&M to record two of Schaefer’s songs for a second 45 [including “Expectation”, the A-side]. Schaefer had a collection of original material that he hoped to record in the studio to farm out to other groups. . . . Fox released the Dutch Masters’ second 45 in September of 1967 and they played a big show at Henderson College to promote it. The band evolved once again into the Cyrkus when Johnson, Schaefer, and Boston left the band. They were replaced by Donnie Brooks and Chris Nolan and adopted a hard rock sound. This band evolved into Blackfoot . . . .
https://arktimes.com/rock-candy/2015/08/21/psych-of-the-south-dutch-masters-the-expectation
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