![]() ![]() it perfectly fits in with the music they were playing on their stations at this time!) It ultimately peaked at #78 nationally. so SOMEBODY had to be playing it! (I can't believe our AM Powerhouses WLS and WCFL passed on this track. Although The Nightcrawlers were out of Florida (where "Little Black Egg" was a #1 Hit), this girl grew up in Ohio where, she said, it was ALSO a huge hit. and was the ONLY song that she could play on the guitar! Being the "music guy" that I am, I couldn't understand how a song that I had never even HEARD of before could be somebody's favorite. so I wasn't familiar with it until the early '80's when a woman at work mentioned that it was her all-time favorite song. "Little Black Egg" didn't chart here in Chicago. Led by Chuck Conlon, the ‘Crawlers recorded a handful of singles, but their lone hit has been responsible for an Ace / Big Beat Records full CD retrospective, as well Cracking’ The Egg: The Untold Story of The Nightcrawlers, an excellent documentary released in 2008. the results of our Forgotten Hits Survey to determineĪn absolute garage band classic - and a staple for thousands of teen bands that performed during the prime garage band era - ‘Little Black Egg’ was recorded by Florida’s Nightcrawlers. And that's what you're reading here today. and then decided to expand the list to include The Top 50 so that we could permanently post something on the website. We partnered with Mike Dugo of the excellent website and wrote brief bios on each of the finalists. we felt that any band that earned more than 100 votes deserved at least SOME sort of recognition!) and, during the course of the series mentioned that the band who WOULD have come in next (with 98 votes) would have been The Ides Of March, thanks to their 1966 Hit "You Wouldn't Listen". We counted down The Top 20 in Forgotten Hits (with 13 Runners Up. so, in 2012, we decided to poll our readers in order to determine, once and for all, who are The Greatest Garage Bands of All-Time!!! Just over 9000 votes came in (9008 to be exact!) and, with THAT kind of response, I think we've been able to assemble the definitive list. Suddenly, we knew we were on to something here. ![]() which, in turn, prompted, "What about The Standells and 'Dirty Water'?" and "How can you even talk about garage bands and leave out The Shadows Of Knight? 'Gloria' is the ULTIMATE Garage Band song." More letters followed, nominating artists and tracks like "Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen, "Wild Thing" by The Troggs and "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. ![]() there is NO greater garage song than 'Louie Louie'!". "What are you, crazy?!?! The greatest garage group of all time has to be The Kingsmen. After we published her letter, we started to get a ton of responses. one of our readers sent in an email asking about the group ? and the Mysterians and, during the course of her letter, mentioned that, thanks to their #1 Hit "96 Tears", they had to be the greatest garage group of all time. ![]()
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