ROBIN LEE PRETTY PATTI

“PRETTY PATTI” WAS “ROBIN LEE AND THE LAVENDERS” FIRST BIG HIT WHICH WAS RECORDED IN THE SUMMER OF 1960 IN MINNEAPOLIS,MN. ON THE CIRCLE DOT LABEL. DAVE DUDLEY HAPPENED TO BE AT THE STUDEO AT THE TIME. THIS WAS PRIOR TO HIS “SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD” HIT. THE ORIGINAL NAME FOR “PRETTY PATTI” WAS “PRETTY BABY” DAVE DUDLEY SUGGESTED CHANGING THE SONG TITLE USING A FEMALE NAME, SUCH AS “PATTI” INSTEAD OF “BABY” PRIOR TO RECORDING IT. “PRETTY PATTI” WAS WRITTEN BY ROGER SCHENZEL. “ROBIN LEE AND THE LAVENDERS” CONSISTED OF ROGER SCHENZEL – ROBIN LEE – RHYTHM GUITAR, ROD MEANS – BASS GUITAR, TERRY CHRISTIAN – LEAD GUITAR, AND BOBBY OESTREICT – DRUMS. THE GROUP WAS NOTED FOR THEIR VOCAL TALENTS. VOCALS WERE SHARED BETWEEN ROGER SHENZEL, ROD MEANS, AND TERRY CHRISTIAN WITH ROGER SCHENZEL AS PRIMARY VOCALIST. PRIOR TO “ROBIN LEE AND THE LAVENDERS” THE GROUP STARTED OUT IN 1957 USING THE NAME “THE ACCENTS” ADDING DRUMMER BOB OSHONSKI FOR OCCASIONAL ROCK&ROLL GIGS. BY 1959 THE GROUP WAS PLAYING MORE AND MORE ROCK&ROLL CONCERTS, SO THEY ADDED A PERMANENT DRUMMER BOBBY OESTREICT TO THE GROUP. AFTER ADDING OESTREICT TO THE GROUP ROGER SCHENZEL CHANGED HIS NAME TO ROBIN LEE. THE GROUP NAME WAS ALSO CHANGED TO THE LAVENDERS. FROM THEN ON, THEY WERE KNOWN AS “ROBIN LEE AND THE LAVENDERS” THE BAND TRAVELED THE NIGHT CLUB CIRCUT THROUGHOUT THE MIDWEST. THEIR CONTINUED SUCCESS ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF SONGWRITTER TURNED PRODUCER BUCK RAM, ALSO MANAGER OF THE PLATTERS WAS ORIGINALLY INTERESTED …
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Buy CARRERA music in iTunes: phobos.apple.com Preview and listen to a compilation of all the 13 devilish tracks from hottest dutch rock band CARRERA’s blazing new record BLACK SHEEP, released Oct 27th 2007. Buy directly in iTunes: phobos.apple.com More outlets: CDBABY www.cdbaby.com iTUNES http CARRERA www.carrera.to Freaky Deaky Dutch Records http TRACKLIST: 01. All In 02. Ten Years 03. Dad 04. Black Sheep 05. My Love 06. King Of The Hill 07. Tupelo County Jail 08. Today I Sold My Soul To Satan 09. I Don’t Want To Work Anymore 10. Pretty Itch 11. Enough 12. Enjoy The Silence 13. Rock & Roll Is Dead MusicFrom, leading dutch music website, review Black Sheep: What do you do when you want to release an album and contracts with various labels in the past haven’t yielded what you had hoped for? You start your own label. This was the presumption CARRERA had and they founded FreakyDeakyDutch Records for their fifth release. Apparently this trio from Wijk bij Duurstede isn’t doing bad, according to Lupus Thunder’s (The Bloodhound Gang) quote “You guys are on my good band list!”. This fifth release by the band is full of wonderful rock ‘n roll songs, to which you can’t sit still. Apart from mostly own work, they chose to record two covers and adding them to the record. These are “Tupelo County Jail” by High Plains Tradition and “Enjoy the Silence” by Depeche Mode. “Enjoy The Silence” has already been done by numerous other bands. All these bands tried to give it their own sound …