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Established in 1998,
Nostalgia Central is your one stop reference guide through five decades of music, movies, television, pop culture
and social history
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THE BAND
Pete Rivera (Pete Hoorelbeke)
Vocals, drums
Rod
Richards (Rod Cox)
Guitar, vocals
John Parrish (John Persh)
Bass, trombone, vocals
Gil Bridges
Saxophone,
vocals
Kenny James (Kenny Folcik)
Keyboards
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Rare Earth
Having played the club circuit since 1961 under the name The
Sunliners, it was on joining Motown's subsidiary Rare Earth
Records - set up by Barney Ales as a home for white rock acts -
that the band changed their name, recording 11 albums between 1969
and 1978 for Berry Gordy's stable.
Their psych R&B cover of The Temptations' 1966 classic Get
Ready catapulted the Detroit quintet to fame. Having recorded
a 21 minute version for their debut LP, they took a three minute
edit and found themselves at Number 4 in the US charts in 1970.
That same year they repeated the formula, this time taking
their Norman Whitfield-produced rendition of The Temptations' I
Know I'm Losing You from their second LP, Ecology,
into the Top 100.
Elongated Acid Rock guitar solos punctuated with growly soulful
vocals on covers of Tobacco Road, Feelin' Alright
and What'd I Say? followed with variable commercial
success, the band revealing themselves to be musically more akin
to Vanilla Fudge.
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