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The Ohio Express is an American bubblegum pop band formed in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1967.[1] Though marketed as a band, it would be more accurate to say that the name "Ohio Express" served as a brand name used by Jerry Kasenetz's and Jeffry Katz's Super K Productions to release the music of a number of different musicians and acts. The best known songs of Ohio Express (including their best-scoring single, "Yummy Yummy Yummy") were actually the work of an assemblage of studio musicians working in New York, including singer/songwriter Joey Levine. Other recorded "Ohio Express" work included material recorded by an early group of Joe Walsh, as well as a later single written and sung by Graham Gouldman (which was performed by the four musicians who would later be known as 10cc).
Two songs on the Beg, Borrow and Steal LP, "I Find I Think of You" and "And It's True", were actually recorded by the Kent, Ohio, band the Measles, led by Joe Walsh, later of the James Gang and the Eagles. In addition, the Measles recorded an instrumental version of "And It's True" (retitled "Maybe") which was placed on the B-side of the "Beg, Borrow and Steal" single.
Bassist Dean Kastran became a member of national act called The Cyrkle beginning in June 2021. He also plays bass and sings in the Eggerton-Kastran Group (a.k.a., EKG), an acoustic duo with vocalist/guitarist Denny Eggerton, and the five-piece band the Caffiends, both based in Mansfield, Ohio. Dale Powers is now a Christian music evangelist based in Mansfield, Ohio, and founded his own record label as well as website for his ministry. Dean Kastran plays bass in the Race Ministries Band and recorded tracks with Dale on his album of original songs titled "The Journey Within!".
Bill Carter moved to Gainesville in 1962 and paid his way through college by playing guitar in The Playboys and later The Rare Breed until he left in 1968. An excellent guitarist with a taste for Chet Atkins, Carter is still playing gigs fifty years later around Orlando. The Rare Breed was one of the few Gainesville bands of the '60s to record; one of their songs "I Talk To The Sun" is on a European CD anthology collection. His story gives a rare insight into the pre-Beatles music scene in Gainesville and the apparent ease with which open-minded white musicians interacted with equally open-minded black musicians.
The Rare Breed played some folk songs, but we mostly played "rock," Chuck Berry songs, "So Fine" by The Fiestas, "Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison, Ray Charles songs such as "What'd I Say," "Sticks and Stones,""Hit The Road, Jack," and songs by The Coasters, The Drifters, and "Runaway" by Del Shannon.
The Rare Breedwere the house band for a long time at Dub's. When we first went there in 1962 it was called The Hootenany before it was The Orleans [1964] and before it was Dub's. They had a piano bar with sheet music and the piano player would play songs and you'd sing along, mostly folk songs. When Tom Hicks and Don Denson took it over they renamed it The Orleans.
I left Gainesville in 1968, The Rare Breed were there from '64 to '68, By the time I left Gainesville, we were playing songs such as Vanilla Fudge "Keep Me Hangin' On." When strobe lights were popular, some bands would use a light bulb and a fan, the fan in front of the light bulb. We spent $300 on a good one, got it at Lipham's.
Jim Garcia and I wrote fourteen songs, we recorded about eight of these and also backed up the black group The Blues Kings. Only four of our songs were made into records. The first record was "In the Night" b/w "I Need You." The second record was "I Talked to the Sun" b/w "Don't Blow Your Cool." Both of those songs were recorded in '66, at Charles Fuller Studios in Tampa, the same place where The Royal Guardsmen did their "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" songs. Dub Thomas and Bob Norris, who was a DJ at WUWU are the ones that convinced us to record and they paid for the studio time.
Our biggest "hit" was "I Talked to the Sun," b/w "Don't Blow Your Cool," they sent the record off to have it pressed, but on the label it was printed "I Talk to the Sun," which wasn't the real title. That song had been pirated and put on "Destination Frantic" album over in Europe and it sold thousands of copies but we never made any money from it. We have two songs on Gear Fab's "Psychedelic States" series [Florida in the '60s Vol. 1 and Vol. 3].
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