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Mendocino is the second album [6] by country rock group The Sir Douglas Quintet, released in April 1969 on Smash Records.The release of the album was expedited as the result of the success of the title song, which peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during a fifteen-week stay in early 1969.
The Sir Douglas Quintet is considered a pioneering influence in the history of rock and roll for incorporating Tex-Mex and Cajun styles into rock music. [16] However, early influences on the band's emerging Texas style were of course broader than this, and included ethnic and pop music from the 1950s and 1960s, such as doo-wop , electric blues ...
She's About a Mover is a 1965 song by the Sir Douglas Quintet [3] that was quickly covered by several other artists. The song has a 12-bar blues structure, and is essentially a rewrite of The Coasters’ 1957 hit, "Searchin'" The song was recorded in Houston, Texas at Gold Star Studios.
The song was released on Tribe Records in 1965 and credited to the Sir Douglas Quintet—an "English-sounding" name created by Meaux to capitalize on the success of the British Invasion. [ 29 ] [ 7 ] The first publicity pictures of the band were taken in silhouette to conceal the appearances of Frank Morin and Johnny Perez, the Latino members ...
In the early-1960s, they frequently played at the Oporto Armory in Birmingham, Alabama where their songs got national airplay by Dave Roddy on WSGN. The band was also a popular attraction in Panama City Beach, Myrtle Beach, and Auburn University. The band (with a shifting cast) continued to do reunion shows into the 2000s.
Mendocino, by the Sir Douglas Quintet, or its title track "(Talk to Me of) Mendocino", a song on the album Kate & Anna McGarrigle; Geology Mendocino ...
"The Rains Came" is a song written by Huey P. Meaux and originally recorded by Big Sambo and the House Wreckers in 1962, reaching #74 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that year. Sir Douglas Quintet covered the song as a single in late 1965. Their version reached #31 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1966.
He was born in San Antonio, Texas, United States. [3] In the early 1960s, Meyers and Doug Sahm founded the Sir Douglas Quintet. [3] His Vox organ was a familiar element of the group's sound, as heard on tracks like "She's About a Mover" (1964), "Mendocino" (1969), and "Nuevo Laredo" (1970).