before my time, but it looks like the music scene was happening here even back then...

 

it looks like WONE radio put out a compilation of local acts on the rock front....

 

 

(according to the "Acid Archive of Underground Sounds 1965-1982:..."....As with "Hillside '66" this has received wide attention from compilers, the top number on it being Jerry & the Others frantic "Don't you lie to me". Issued by the local WONE record station as part of a Battle Of The Band contest.")

 

..sort of neat cover art there....one can see the courthouse and the Gem City clocktower prominently displayed, which looks like an intentional riff on another famous tall clock from another "northern industrial town:....

 

 

..yep, thats that pierhead building in Liverpool, which means The British Invasion...

 

"Musical Influences: Beatles, Hollies, if it’s British Invasion, it had to be good."

 

 

...from a site on garage band of the 60s, an article on The Vondells.

 

Of course the act of that era that had a real hit (not really from Dayton though, though they played here a lot) was.....

 

 

 

It seemed that smaller cities all had their own scenes going on..and occasionally a local band would score a hit ...in Louisville it was The Monarchs with "Look Homeward Angel".  Tom Hanks did a fictional look back on this era in local pop music with his movie "That Thing You Do", about a ficitonal band from Erie, PA.

 

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Later in the decade, as the counterculture kicked in, Dayton apparently had its own underground newspaper or newsletter...the Razzberry Street Sheet, copies of which are apparently in the BGSU library archives (of all places).

 

 

 

 

...the Razzberry Street Sheet, copies of which are apparently in the BGSU library archives (of all places).

 

BG has a well known Popular Culture library and academic department http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/popc/ so I'm not surprised they have a collection of underground magazines.

Usually I like more upbeat 60's, but that songs not too bad.

BG has a well known Popular Culture library and academic department http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/popc/ so I'm not surprised they have a collection of underground magazines

 

I was planning a trip to Toledo, so, just for kix, it might be interesting to make a side trip to  check out that archive to see what the Razzberry was all about. 

 

 

jeff i always read the bgsu pop culture program and library are about the best in the usa. i remember they had a great collection of bootleg records i used to go listen to sometimes when i was hanging out in the library and got tired of studying. they have all kinds of pop stuff, very worth checking out.

 

here's the link:

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/popc/page16730.html

 

the library collections:

http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pcl2.html

 

and last here's an interesting sidenote about the pop culture office house too!

The Department of Popular Culture is located in a house ordered from Montgomery Ward & Company. Virgil H. Taylor erected the house in 1932. Montgomery Ward & Company published their last house catalog in 1931, raising the possibility that Virgil H. Taylor bought one of the last Montgomery Ward & Company houses. Bowling Green State University bought the building in 1937 to house the University President.