MICKIE MOST PRESENTS BRITISH GO-GO E 4306 (-65) US MONO

No doubt an attempt by MGM and/or Mickie Most to get three on British soil then quite unsuccessful bands aboard the British Invasion wagon by using Herman Hermits and Animals as locomotives. That doesn't seem to have worked out at the time, but it sure works for me today as this LP is a way to collect six recordings almost impossible to get close to the fact on vinyl elsewhere. The Symbols "You Are My Girl" a 1965 A-side and "Don't Go" a 1966 flip side - non of them appearing on their 1968 one-off "The Best Part Of The Symbols" album (President PTL 1018), or the 25 track 2004 CD (President PRCD 149). The Moquettes only released one single, here are both sides - "Right String Baby, But Wrong Yo-Yo" (also on the UK 1964 compilation "On The Scene" - https://monolover.blogspot.com/2017/03/on-scene-33sx-1662-64-uk-mono.html) - and here with the flip "You Came Along". The Cherokees was also represented with one song - "Seven Daffodils" - on "On The Scene". Here are two more - "I Will Never Turn My Back On You" a 1965 B-side while their other track "Rejected" seems to have been unreleased elsewhere and didn't show up again till the 2007 Dr. No Records "Mod Meeting vol. 5" compilation (MM05). The Symbol's cuts reminding of The Tremeloes with high pitch vocals - "You Are My Girl" good as such while "Don't Go" sung slighly out of tune. The two Cherokees tracks ballads with languishing vocals to garage backing. Both sides of the one-off Moquettes 45 very good garage up-tempo carried by organ and hard working drums - my favorites here btw. But seriously any of those to me new tracks could have sounded awful, which they don't, and this still would be a keeper...just for the joy of discovering and adding further bands to the battery. First released in US only, also as stereo (SE 4206). Reissued on Metro (M/MS 577) in US and Canada as "English In-Groups" with different sleeve design. Premiere US had label as shown here, heavy vinyl and MGM "lion" inner. (SÄM*) (YZÄ*) (ÖXCÅ*)