Category: Stark Naked and the Car Thieves
Larry and Andrew will be at the LA Times Festival of Books on Sunday on the USC Campus to give away promotional copies of Things We Lost in the Night, Night People. We’ll be in…
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” Mary Dore’s documentary of The Women’s Movement 06 March 2015 | By Reverend Irene Monroe I’ve always contended that the Pill was one of the main contributors to many if…
Larry J Dunlap – http://larryjdunlap.com/ljd-blog/ I never met June Fairchild, though I first heard about her in 1968, and even then I didn’t know her name. Her given name was June Wilson and she was…
http://www.atlanticcityweekly.com/ “I remember my mother watching your show when I was a child. Those songs are still in my head as an adult. I would like to know who sings “I’d Like to Have the…
DON”T MISS IT. Tonight The Sixties on CNN, 9 pm (EST), 6 pm (PDT), plus there are usually several re-runs. Covers the war from its beginnings through 1968. The face of war changed forever with…
For those of you who’ve been following along, Stark Naked and the Car Thieves began as an acappella vocal group back in Indianapolis. We called ourselves the Reflections when our very first recording was released…
“MIXED EMOTIONS” was written by another former member of the Atlanta coterie, Harry Middlebrooks (he’d co-written the Classics IV’s “Spooky”), who’d moved to Los Angeles some years earlier and was under contract to Heller and…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]N AUGUST OF 1966, CAESARS PALACE, the most incredible casino/resort/hotel of it’s time, opened its doors to the public. A few months later the most improbable event imaginable happened when Trish Turner, a talented R&B…
Tony Quarrington An Englishman’s Love Affair with San Francisco An Englishman’s Love Affair with San Francisco I recently ran across this post, and even though it’s from 2012 it reflects again what an amazing phenomenon…
By 1968, Stark Naked and the Car Thieves’ home base in LA was the Rag Doll at Lankershim and Victory in the San Fernando Valley. The club owner, Tony Ferra, promised the band a week’s…