If you didn't experience rock and roll in Minnesota in the 1960s,
this book will make you wish you had. This behind-the-scenes,
up-close-and-personal account relates how a handful of Minnesota
rock bands erupted out of a small Midwest market and made it big.
It was a brief, heady moment for the musicians who found themselves
on a national stage, enjoying a level of success most bands only
dream of. In Everybody's Heard about the Bird, Rick Shefchik writes
of that time in vivid detail. Interviews with many of the key
musicians, combined with extensive research and a phenomenal cache
of rare photographs, reveal how this monumental era of Minnesota
rock music evolved. The chronicle begins with musicians from the
1950s and early 1960s, including Augie Garcia, Bobby Vee, the
Fendermen, and Mike Waggoner and the Bops. Shefchik looks at how a
local recording studio and record label, along with Minnesota radio
stations, helped make their achievements possible and prepared the
way for later bands to break out nationally. Shefchik delves deeply
into the Trashmen's emblematic rise to fame. A Minneapolis band
that recorded a fluke novelty hit called "Surfin' Bird" at Kay Bank
Studios, the Trashmen signed with Soma Records, topped the local
charts in late 1963, and were poised to top the national charts in
early 1964. Hundreds of Minnesota bands took inspiration from the
Trashmen's success, as teen dances with live bands flourished in
clubs, ballrooms, gyms, and halls across the Upper Midwest. Here
are the stories of bands like the Gestures, the Castaways, and the
Underbeats, and the triumphs-and tragedies-of the most prominent
Minnesota-spawned bands of the late 1960s, including Gypsy, Crow,
and the Litter. For the baby boomers who remember it and everyone
else who has felt its influence, the 1960s rock-and-roll scene in
Minnesota was an extraordinary period both in musical history and
popular culture, and now it's captured fully in print for the first
time. Everybody's Heard about the Bird celebrates how these bands
found their singular sound and played for their elated audiences
from the golden era to today.
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