WAYNE FONTANA & THE MINDBENDERS - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED UK LP Mod Beat Freakbeat

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WAYNE FONTANA & THE MINDBENDERS

Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um - It's...

Original UK Mono LP released on Fontana Records in 1964. Front-laminated sleeve with flipbacks on rear.

687336 1L//1▼420   /   687336 2L//1▼420

AUTOGRAPHED ON REAR BY MINDBENDERS ERIC STEWART & BOB LANG
(see pictures)

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Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders first emerged out of Glyn Geoffrey Ellis' daydreams of becoming a successful pop performer. Rechristening himself Wayne Fontana after Elvis Presley's drummer, DJ Fontana, Fontana's first band was the Jets, a staple on the Manchester circuit through 1961-1962.

According to legend, the original Jets broke up when Fontana and bassist Bob Lang alone turned up for the most important audition of their young career, at the famed Oasis club. Hurriedly, Fontana press-ganged a couple of other local musicians, bystanders in the bar, into service -- drummer Ric Rothwell and guitarist Eric Stewart. Stewart was already an old hand on the Manchester music scene, having played with local heroes Gerry Lee and the Stagger Lees and Johnny Peters and the Jets (unrelated to Fontana's combo). That was still his regular band that evening at the Oasis, a situation that changed immediately after this ad hoc combo left the stage and was offered a Fontana label contract.

Renaming the band after the hit movie The Mindbenders (Fontana, of course, was allowed to keep his name!), the quartet's first release, in June 1963, was a cover of one of their stage favourites, Fats Domino's "My Girl Josephine," retitled "Hello Josephine." It was not a major hit, peaking at number 46, and two further singles, "For You, For You" (October 1963) and a cover of the Diamonds' "Little Darling'" (February 1964), were even less successful.

But the label did not lose faith. After all, what sort of headlines would "Fontana drop Fontana" make? The band plugged on, and in May 1964, their version of Ben E. King's "Stop Look and Listen" made number 37. Again it was a tiny drop in the ocean, but this time the Mindbenders were able to capitalize upon it. By early fall, they were riding the Top Five with a spellbinding take on Major Lance's masterpiece of incoherence, "Um Um Um Um Um Um."

The Mindbenders' original recording of the song was produced by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham -- their label rejected it and insisted on a re-recording, cut with Fontana's own Jack Baverstock. The first recording remains unreleased; the remake soared to number five. An EP titled after the hit followed it to number seven, while the band's eponymous debut album reached number 18. As was standard at this time, the entire LP was recorded in one day, crammed in to a schedule which included their first major British tour, supporting Brenda Lee.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

She's Got The Power
You Don't Know Me
Git It!
Jaguar And Thunderbird
Certain Girl
One More Time

Side Two

Where Have You Been?
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
Too Many Tears
Girl Can't Help It
Cops And Robbers
I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday

Released on 'Fontana Records' in 1964

Catalogue No. TL 5230

Disc is in G+ condition (a lot of surface wear)

Sleeve is in VG- condition (general wear & ageing / split to spine)

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