However, before the release of this record, it was time to renegotiate their contract. When the group recorded their second record, a cover of Del Shannon’s RUNAWAY, they utilized an actual flute instead of using an organ with a flute setting as was done in the original Shannon version. Sloane were featured standing back to back against the big Vox AC 100 Amplifier. In one of the company’s in-house publications, Ron Coleman and J.P.
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and President of Thomas Organ, the United States distributor of Vox, along with Bernard Stockly (of London), importer to the United States of the Royal Warranted, Challenge / Eavestaff pianos, arranged for the boys to have full use of the five foot tall AC 100, which later became known as the “Super Beatle,” along with other Vox amplifiers. Joe Banaron, CEO of Warwick Electronics Inc. In the early 1960’s, The Brothers Grim became the first American group to be featured with Vox Amplifiers and guitars which were made famous by the contemporary British group, The Beatles.
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Jeff played the drums on Maurice Williams’ number one hit record, STAY, which also was the cornerstone recording for the all time top selling soundtrack hit movie Dirty Dancing. Jeff Allen, the group’s drummer, was a very talented young studio musician. The bass player was Ron Coleman who also sang lead and backup. The lead singer and guitarist for the group was J.P. One of The Brothers Grim fans heard Wink Martindale mention on his radio show that he saw a marquee for the The Brothers Grim in North Hollywood and remarked that it was a great name for a group. McClean, entitled SCUZY, which coincided with the release of the Baskin Robbins TM flavor of the month by the same name. The record’s flip side was an instrumental featuring the group’s VOX Continental organ player, Chuck S.
The group’s first record, YOU’LL NEVER BE MINE (a “Pick Hit of the Week” on one of the greater Los Angeles’ areas radio stations), was recorded with hundreds of screaming fans in the background. The Group was managed by Wally Peters who was also the manager of the record department at The House of Sight and Sound, one of Los Angeles’ largest full service music stores. The Brothers Grim was a contemporary pop-rock recording group of the early to mid-nineteen-sixties.
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