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The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band
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Formed in Millbrae, CA, United States AKA - The Bees W.C. FIELDS MEMORIAL ELECTRIC STRING BAND In 1966, the Byrds and the Monkees nearly had some competition from a band named for a curmudgeon who died on Christmas Day, twenty years earlier. But did the group's lead singer sound anything like W.C. Fields? Well, no. He sounded more like any guy fronting a Strawberry Watch Band Love-In Groove band of the day... The band released a single "Hippy Elevator Operator" b/w "Don't Lose the Girl" on HBR...which was the music wing of the less-than-hip Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon factory. DJ's may not have taken too seriously anyone associated with Yogi Bear and Quick Draw McGraw, but the group did have rock creds. The main members of the group were George Caldwell and Robert Zinner (who co-wrote "Hippy Elevator Operator"). They had previously been in a Redondo Beach area band called The Bees, a band that showed some Rolling Stones influence and covered Dylan once in a while. They played fairly regularly in Southern California but only recorded a few tracks. Then came a name change. According to Caldwell, "One night I was lying on the couch watching TV and the name just came to me on a piece of flaming lemon meringue pie. I saw the words on the screen being typed on a piece of paper - "W.C. Fields today" - and so I renamed the band the next day." The band also issued one single for Mercury the same year. They were the first to record "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone," but it was The Monke
top songs
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Hippy Elevator Operator
4092I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
273Don't Lose The Girl
244Round World
85Don't Lose That Girl
76Steppin' Stone (mono)
37Mushroom People
18The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band, “Hippy Elevator Operator”
19Bide My Time
110Hippy Elevator Operator - The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric
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Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968
Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965-1968
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Where The Action Is! - [Disc 2]
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Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 (disc 2)
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Where The Action Is!: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968
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Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 - Disc 2 (Beyond the City)
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Where The Action Is!: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 [Disc 2]
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Where The Action Is ! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968
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Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 Disc 2
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Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets (1965-1968)
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Fading Yellow Volume 20 Even More US 60's 45's Popsike And Other Delights
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Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 - Disc 2 of 4