Lemay - The Strangeloves (1960s Garage Bands)

Before taking this course, I had never  really heard of the genre "garage rock". But after looking up a few of the bands on the list, I learned that I did know a few songs that fell under this genre. I chose the band "The Strangeloves", who are known for singing the song "I Want Candy", a song which I was familiar with, though I am a little embarrassed to confess that I thought it was sang by Aaaron Carter, the early 2000s pop-star who covered this song. The Strangeloves, founded in the mid-60s after originally being a duo named "Bob & Jerry", included the members Bob Feldman,  Jerry Goldstein, and Richard Gottehrer. When the trio group was formed, they decided that pretending to be foreign would help them keep up with market trends, and would also give them an interesting backstory that would pull people in. So, they pretended to be an Australian beat band, with the fictional story being that the three members were brothers: Giles, Niles, and Miles, who were raised on an Australian sheep farm, and had struck rich when they came up with the "invention of a new form of sheep crossbreeding", which allowed them the financial freedom to become a famous band. Though this story really never caught on, they still fared well, having a few hits, such as "I Want Candy". After the end of their band, when the trio split up, Richard Gottehrer found a new place in music - as he became a famous record producer, involved with bands such as Blondie, The Go-Gos, and other new wave music that was on the rise and very famous.