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Monday, November 27, 2023

VA • Surfin' The Great Lakes Kay Bank Studio Surf Sides of the 1960s

 



Outtasite surf & garage sounds from landlocked America!

This compilation of unreleased & rare tracks from the Twin Cities’ Kay Bank Studios features 16 rip rollin’ cuts of some of the best surf and garage rock Kay Bank had to offer. Features The Trashmen, The Vaqueros, and more!

Kay Bank Recordings in Minneapolis was certainly one of these historic studios. It was named after the wife of owner Vernon Bank. Although he had been involved in the recording business since the late 1940s, Bank’s recording studio operation got underway in 1957 when he moved into a building that was large enough to also establish a pressing plant. The studio provided a 3-track Ampex recorder, a 12-input recording console, and a live echo chamber.

According to a 1958 article in the Minneapolis Star newspaper, Kay Bank was pressing 60,000 records each week, and Vernon Bank claimed that his studio provided the most complete facility of any other studio “between Pennsylvania and California.” The sign above the building’s entrance stated, “A Complete Recording Service From Master Tape to Pressed Record.”

Sundazed Music recently acquired a large archive of the existing Kay Bank master tapes. Some of the surf, and related, recordings in that archive are included in this compilation, all recorded between June 1964 and August 1966- at a time when the British Invasion was ravaging the sales charts.

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Los mejores sonidos de surf y garaje de la América sin salida al mar.

Esta recopilación de temas inéditos y raros de los estudios Kay Bank de las Twin Cities contiene 16 cortes de lo mejor del surf y el garage rock que Kay Bank tenía para ofrecer. Incluye a The Trashmen, The Vaqueros y muchos más.

Kay Bank Recordings, en Minneapolis, fue sin duda uno de esos estudios históricos. Llevaba el nombre de la esposa del propietario, Vernon Bank. Aunque llevaba en el negocio de la grabación desde finales de la década de 1940, Bank puso en marcha su estudio de grabación en 1957, cuando se trasladó a un edificio lo suficientemente grande como para instalar también una planta de prensado. El estudio contaba con una grabadora Ampex de 3 pistas, una consola de grabación de 12 entradas y una cámara de eco en directo.

Según un artículo publicado en 1958 en el periódico Minneapolis Star, Kay Bank prensaba 60.000 discos a la semana, y Vernon Bank afirmaba que su estudio ofrecía las instalaciones más completas de cualquier otro estudio "entre Pensilvania y California". El letrero sobre la entrada del edificio decía: "Un servicio completo de grabación, desde la cinta maestra hasta el disco prensado".

Sundazed Music adquirió recientemente un gran archivo de las cintas maestras existentes de Kay Bank. Algunas de las grabaciones de surf, y otras relacionadas, de ese archivo se incluyen en esta recopilación, todas ellas grabadas entre junio de 1964 y agosto de 1966, en una época en la que la British Invasion arrasaba en las listas de ventas.


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Tracks:
1 - Jonah - The Vaqueros 02:32
2 - Heaven's Devil - The Boss Tweads 02:49
3 - Caliente - The Marauders 02:56
4 - Island In Paradise - The Vaqueros 02:13
5 - Shot In The Dark - The Mustangs 02:24
6 - Disintegration - The Readymen 02:45
7 - Comin' Home - The Vaqueros 02:25
8 - Girl Don't Tell Me - The Satisfactions 02:45
9 - 80 Foot Wave - The Vaqueros 02:52
10 - Za Boo - The Valients 02:35
11 - Bird Gasp '65 - The Trashmen 03:08
12 - Surfin' Blues - The Readymen 02:31
13 - Little Queenie (Instrumental) - The Furys 02:56
14 - Space Journey Ranger 7 - The Vaqueros 02:02
15 - Surf Beat - The Chancellors 03:12
16 - Greensleeves - The Trashmen 01:45
17 - Wine, Wine, Wine - The Bleach Boys 02:25
18 - Baba Yaga - The Pagans 02:18
19 - Beach Girl - The Valients 02:18
20 - Hey Little One - The Shandells 02:24
21 - Shortnin' Bread - The Readymen 02:39
22 - Lizzy Lost Her Beach Ball - T Lawrence Sherwood Greens 02:16

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