The Hombres

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The Hombres were a garage rock band that had its roots in the thriving Memphis scene of the early 60's and who disbanded by 1969. Vocalist & organist B.B. Cunningham had earlier released some rockabilly sides on his fathers indie label Cover Records before being recruited to tour as a member of Ronny & The Daytonas with some Memphis High classmates. Originally the Bandits formed circa 1964 with Gary Wayne McEwen on guitar, B.B. Cunningham(d. 2012) on the organ (brother of Bill Cunningham of the Box Tops), Jerry Lee Masters on bass and John Will Hunter (d. 1976) on the drums. The band spent a couple years playing under the Ronny & The Daytonas name as the leader of that million selling Nashville based surf rock act didn't like touring. The band's claim to fame is the Huey P. Meaux produced track Let It All Hang Out, which took it's inspiration from Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and an old country western 78. The origin of the comically bizarre lyrics in the song are presumably from the songwriters, but the spoken-word introduction – "A preachment, dear friend, you are about to receive on John Barleycorn, Nicotine and the Temptations of Eve" – goes all the way back to 1947, when they served to introduce a song that was every bit as strange for its era as this one was in 1967: "Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women" by Red Ingle and His Natural Seven. The Hombres' "Let It All Hang Out" hit number 12 nationally in 1967, and decades later was included on

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60's Gold

Elizabethtown

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Battle Of The Bands

Elizabethtown Soundtrack

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Elizabethtown (Music from the Motion Picture)

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Elizabethtown - Music From The Motion Picture

Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)

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Elizabethtown OST

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Monster Mash

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Nuggets- Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era - Volume 3

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American Garage Rock Scene

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BSO Elizabethtown

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