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Pop music was different in the beginning and never more so than in California, where Hollywood’s dominance of the entertainment scene meant that Los Angeles was scarcely aware it had a music industry until hotshot producers such as Phil Spector, Snuff Garrett and Lou Adler finally put the town on the recording map in the mid-1960s. Nefarious, transient and unaccountable, the music biz was essentially a hidden profession, shielded from the sons and daughters of good Americans.
Tracklist
1 The Altecs– Gorilla Hunt 2:02
2 Spencer's Van Dykes– I'll Blow My Mind
1:54
3 The Zanies– Mad Scientist 1:51
4 Los Corvets– Satisfaction 3:21
5 Johnny O (3)– Meet The Bongo Man 2:11
6 The Debonairs*– Everybody's Movin' 2:34
7 The Wrench (2)– The Day Is Hard 2:16
8 Bobby Fry– Grandchus 2:52
9 The Rebels (20)– TNT In A T-Shirt 1:18
10 Davie Allan & Arrows*– Camel Walk 1:48
11 The Brentwoods (5)– Midnight Star 2:18
12 The Whips– Yes Master! 2:16
13 Johnny Durain & The Cytones (2)– Shang-Dang-Doo 2:20
14 The Syndicate (17)– My Baby's Barefoot 2:43
15 Tony Casanova (2)– Boogie Woogie Feeling 2:21
16 The Zanies– The Blob 2:22
17 Chuck Miles & The Styles– Rock That Boogie 2:18
18 The Wrench (2)– You'll Understand 2:55
19 Motion*– The Thief 2:26
20 The South Hampton Story– Leave Me Behind 2:39
21 Johnny "Z"– Midnight Beach Party 1:57
22 John Winfield JR*– She Touched My Soul 2:08
23 Bobby Troup– Seventh Son 2:03
24 The Capers (4)– Rockin' Round The Mountain 2:11
25 Basil & The Baroques– It's No Use 2:57
26 The Syndicate (17)– Love Will Take Away 3:13
27 Opus Five– Haight (In Haight-Ashbury) Street 3:04
28 The Zanies– Russian Roulette 2:00