The Buggs

The Buggs

The Buggs were a short-lived pop band of the mid-1960s which attempted to cash in on The Beatles craze.

The Buggs only album, "The Beetle Beat", consisted of covers of Beatles songs (I Want To Hold Your Hand, She Loves You) with quickly-written dance-title originals (Big Ben Hop, Soho Mash, Liverpool Drag, Teddy Boy Stomp, Mersey Mercy) which displayed an almost preternatural cluelessness of what The Beatles were actually about.

Although the album cover was emblazoned with the legend "The original Liverpool sound", The Buggs actually hailed from Omaha, Nebraska, and the album was recorded at Kay Bank Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota.ref|kbs

A later re-release (or pirating) of the album was titled "Meet The Buggs" and featured the band in an exact simulacrum of The Beatles' pose on the cover of "Meet The Beatles" (the then-current American title for the album now called "With The Beatles").

Notes

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Discography

*The Beetle Beat (1964, Coronet Records (UK), CXS-212 (LP))

Compilations

*Better Than The Beatles: 26 Tunes That Failed to Oust the Fab Four From The Charts (Knight (LP))

single: The Buggs verses Beatles(Parody)


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