Boogie Fever - Happy Kyne and The Mirthmakers
In case you don’t get the joke, Happy, the lead singer, is Frank De Vol who led orchestras, arranged for everyone from Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughn, Tony Bennet, to The Supremes. He wrote TV themes for The Brady Bunch, My Three Sons, Cat Ballou, and The Dirty Dozen. That’s just scratching the surface.
The drummer is Colin Bailey who played with Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, and the Tonight Show Band. He’s probably must heard with Vince Guaraldi on the Charlie Brown stuff.
On guitar is Tommy Tedesco who was a hard working LA studio player who recorded with Zappa, The Fifth Dimension, The Mamas and the Papas, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Phil Spector.
The bass player is another LA studio player, Eddie Robertson.
And the accordion player is Frank Marroco, a Jazz accordionist who played on hundreds of movie soundtracks, including The Pirates of the Caribbean and The Matrix Reloaded.
I’m amazed at how much they overplayed, but didn’t really get in each other’s way. It must have been a hoot.