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Discography of Massachusetts Teen Beat releases. What do the ratings mean? [0 = plain bad] [1-2-3 = not good] [4-5-6 = ok] [7-8-9 = average quality, a good effort] [10-11-12 = good or very good track] [13-14-15 = fantastic gem]
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Label | Group | Homebase | Year | Title A | Title B | Label | Style | Rating |
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Aladdins | Quincy | 1965 | Jeannie Was Her Name | Sandu | Magic Carpet | Fast rocking ok Garage Beat with a slightly moody edge / n/a | 5 / n/a | |
Apaches | Lawrence+ | 1966 | Day By Day | - | Onyx | Beautiful moody slow cover with great shimmering organ and guitar work and competent vocals. Fake applause mixed in | 11 | |
Atarras | Norwood | 1966 | Blue Is The Color | Daniel Boone | Polaris | n/a | n/a | |
Ascots | Gardner | 1965 | Run Little Girl | Pinch | Liverpool | n/a | n/a | |
Ascots | Natick | 1966 | Where I'm Going | Crash Dive | Normandy | Fantastic moody lament with tempo changes / Cool instrumental | 11 / 6 | |
Back Beets | Wilmington | 1967 | That's The Way Life Is | Sandy | Marc | Cool sloppy riff-based rocker with amateurish charm and and unexpected moody edge in the chorus / Crude uptempo Teen Beat ballad, again with lots of amateurish appeal and a nice hook in the chorus | 6 / 6 | |
Back Street Boys | Worcester | 1967 | Back Street Blues | Money | W.J.G. | Very good uptempo jangler with juvenile vocals and good guitar organ interplay / | 8 / n/a | |
Bad Manners | Worcester | 1967 | It's You | I Am Alone | Arco | Very good uptempo jangler / Great slow moody and desperate ballad. | 9 / 11 | |
Balladeers | Framingham | Aug 1965 | Words I Want To Hear | High Flying Bird | Coru | n/a | n/a | |
Barbarians | Provincetown | Sep 1964 | Hey Little Bird | You've Got To Understand | Joy | n/a | n/a | |
Beep Beep & The Roadrunners | Worcester | May 1966 | True Love Knows | Shifting Gears | Vincent | n/a | n/a | |
Beep Beep & The Roadrunners | Worcester | May 1966 | Don't Run | Watermelon Man | Audio Dynamics | n/a | n/a | |
Bobby & The Farraris | Fall River | Sep 1967 | In The Morning | Pretty | Tuff-Nuff | n/a | n/a | |
Bobby James & The Dristells | Newburyport | Feb 1966 | True Blue | Let's Go | Lant | Nice slow dramatic Teen Pop ballad with great girl harmonies and a cheesy spoken word part / Very good wild guitar sax instro riff pounder with some words thrown in between | 5 / 6 | |
Bold | Springfield | Sep 1966 | Gotta Get Some | Robin Hood | Cameo | n/a | n/a | |
Bold | Springfield | Feb 1967 | Train Kept A Rollin' | Found What I Was Looking For | Dyno-Voice | n/a | n/a | |
Bondsmen | Concord / Sudbury | Jun 1966 | I Don't Want Your Lovin Anymore | No Longer Mine | Fleetwood | Fantastic infectious Garage Beat with great harmonies and catchy guitar parts / Slow but strident Garage Beat ballad with nice guitar work and a very good middle eight that picks up the tempo | 11 / 6 | |
Bonnevilles | Norwood | Oct 1964 | See If I Care | You Just Can't Tell Her | Fleetwood | Cool fast driving Garage Beat with harmonies and a moody pop edge / Cool fratty Garage Beat thumper with pumping drums and rocking guitar parts | 8 / 6 | |
Boss Todes | Acton | 1967 | Have Certainty | Sally The Pollywog | Sound City | n/a | n/a | |
Bristols | Quincy | 1965 | Jeannie Was Her Name | Sandu | Magic Carpet | n/a | n/a | |
Buck Rogers Movement | Quincy | 1965 | Jeannie Was Her Name | Sandu | Magic Carpet | n/a | n/a | |
Bugs | Quincy | 1965 | Jeannie Was Her Name | Sandu | Magic Carpet | n/a | n/a | |
C. C. & The Chasers | Quincy | 1965 | Jeannie Was Her Name | Sandu | Magic Carpet | n/a | n/a | |
Cascades | Quincy | 1965 | Jeannie Was Her Name | Sandu | Magic Carpet | n/a | n/a | |
Cavemen | Quincy | 1965 | Jeannie Was Her Name | Sandu | Magic Carpet | n/a | n/a | |
Chain Reactions | Revere / Springfield | 1965 | Jeannie Was Her Name | Sandu | Magic Carpet | n/a | n/a | |
Citations | Lowell | 1966 | The Day That She'll Go | Long Time Wanderin' | Pre-Sav Enterprises | n/a | n/a | |
Countdowns | Sun Hadley Falls | Jun 1967 | She Works All Night | Skies Will Be Happy To See You | WG | n/a | n/a | |
Delrays Inc. | West Roxbury | Aug 1966 | I'm A Lovin | Billy's Beat | Salem | n/a | n/a | |
Dick Doherty | Woburn | 1965 | Fare Thee Well | Patriot Of Today | Park Square | n/a | n/a | |
Distant Sounds | Webster | 1965 | It Reminds Me | Dreami | Citation | n/a | n/a | |
Druids | Cohasset | 1965 | Jelly Belly | Over And Over (You Cheat On Me) | Broad Cove Teen Haven | n/a | n/a | |
Ebb Tides | Fall River | 1966 | My Baby's Gone | Summertime | Arco | n/a | n/a | |
End | Andover | 1966 | Bad Night | Make Our Love Come Through | Insegrievious | n/a | n/a | |
End | Worcester | 1966 | Can't Get Free | Movin' Out | (no label) | n/a | n/a | |
End | Worcester | 1967 | Can't Get Free | Movin' Out | Northeast | n/a | n/a | |
Esquires | Northampton | 1965 | Down The Track | Shake A Tail Feather | Salem | n/a | n/a | |
Ferrari's Of Canada | Boston | 1964 | (All I Ever Want Is) Girls | Please Tell Her | DCP | n/a | n/a | |
Ferrari's Of Canada | Boston | 1964 | Little Pineapple | Irene Good Night | G-Clef | n/a | n/a | |
Ferrari's Of Canada | Boston | 1965 | Tennessee Waltz | He's Just A Little Boy | DCP | n/a | n/a | |
5:P.M. | xx | 1968 | How Many Days | Auburn Red | Ace | n/a | n/a | |
Forerunners | Harvard / Cambridge | 1965 | A Long Way Down | Magic Of A Girl | Liberty | n/a | n/a | |
Fumin' Humins | Tabor Acad. / Marion | 1967 | Relative Distance | Queen | The Angry Music Co. | n/a | n/a | |
Citations | Quincy | 1965 | Jeannie Was Her Name | Sandu | Magic Carpet | n/a | n/a | |
John Brown's Bodies | Quincy | 1965 | Jeannie Was Her Name | Sandu | Magic Carpet | n/a | n/a |