RARE '66 GARAGE 45 THE VANDALS Big Rock #511 "Ballad Of A Loser" (Bradford, PA.)

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Obscure NW Pennsylvania Garage 45 by The Vandals!
Featuring an opening guitar riff very reminiscent of the '63 hit "Pipeline" from 3 years earlier - this incredibly rare moody garage tune by The Vandals was the only song cut by this Bradford, Pennsylvania group.
Released around October of 1966 on a relatively unknown Elgin, PA. label, "Ballad Of A Loser" b/w "My Girl" (not the Temptations hit) was 1 of only 2 releases for the Big Rock label - the other occurring in June of '67 by The Worlocks out of the Port Byron, N.Y. area, (Big Rock #512) - an equally rare & amazing garage 45 as well.
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