02 December 2021

Baby don't you know it makes me blow my mind

Thursday music corner: Los Angeles band Fenwyck recorded this Keith and Linda Colley-penned, genially psychedelic pop gem for the Challenge label. Fenwyck’s recording failed to trouble the charts when it was released in the northern summer of 1967, but the song did attain greater prominence when it was covered on the B-side of The American Breed’s hit, Bend Me, Shape Me, which reached number 5 in the US charts in early 1968, and topped the Listener's pop chart in New Zealand.

Challenge Records was most famous for The Champs' 1958 hit Tequila. One of Challenge's two co-founders in 1957 was cowboy singer Gene Autry, although he sold his share the following year.

Fenwyck – Mindrocker (1967)

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