Description:

Reissue of ultra-rare early ’60s Dome Records classic LP compilation of teen garage bands from the Baltimore, MD area. Ralph Johnson, president of Wedge & Dome Records, was also the sponsor of many “Battle Of the Bands” shows throughout Maryland. These shows helped them find the bands that hadn’t already found them, since the grand prize for these shows was to have one of their songs on this album. The second prize at these shows was that they would pay 50 percent of their expenses to get a track for the album. These bands made up the Baltimore sound of the sixties, thus becoming Baltimore’s own contribution to the Garage Band Sound. Thanks to Get Hip Recordings, this material is now available again. The original pressing of 500 copies of this LP went out of print in 1966, and original copies now sell for $200 and up if you’re lucky enough to run across one!

Track Listing:

1. 24 Karat Five – Get You
2. Night Walkers – The Night Walker
3. Beggars – Night Of Pleasure
4. Fabulous Monarch – Memories Of The Past
5. Impacts LTD – This Love So Real
6. Del Prix – She’ll Be Mine
7. Road Runners – She’s Gone
8. Executioners – My Diana
9. Amoebas – Look At The Moon
10. Bobby J & Generations – Lost In Time
11. Week-Enders – Rampage
12. Vendors – My Rose-Ann
13. Rysing Suns – A Third Hour On 40 11th St.
14. Chadwicks – Only Way To Do It
15. Shame Shame – Destinations
16. The Rub – Joey Charles

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