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Tee-Set was a pop rock band formed in 1965 by singer Peter Tetteroo in Delft, Netherlands. The band is best-known for their single "Ma Belle Amie", which was a No. 5 hit in the United States and No. 3 in Canada. The band had a number of other hit songs in the Netherlands, including the number one song "She Likes Weeds".
It is made up of music recorded around Christmas 1965, at which time the band was known as the Tea Set. [1] These are the earliest Pink Floyd recordings available commercially, with four songs written by Syd Barrett, one written by Roger Waters, and one cover of a song by American blues musician Slim Harpo.
Jerry Ross, who was in Europe in the autumn of 1969 looking for European hits for release in the United States, happened to hear the song while in a club in Switzerland and he then signed Tee-Set. The song was released in the United States after the successful release of "Venus" by Shocking Blue, another Dutch band Ross signed. [5] "Ma Belle ...
Rado Robert Garcia Klose (born 1945) is an English musician, photographer and printmaker.Between 1964 and July 1965, he was the lead guitarist of the rock band the Tea Set, an early incarnation of Pink Floyd.
[12] [nb 3] Sigma 6 went through several names, including the Meggadeaths, the Abdabs and the Screaming Abdabs, Leonard's Lodgers, and the Spectrum Five, before settling on the Tea Set. [13] [nb 4] In September 1963, as Metcalfe and Noble left to form their own band, [17] the guitarist Syd Barrett joined Klose and Waters at Stanhope Gardens. [18]
It sets the mood and justifies what comes next: the titular kiki (defined in the song as a party with friends to calm your nerves and spill the tea). “Tyler Got Him A Tesla / Can’t Say I Ain ...
The Tea Set, which became Pink Floyd, recorded "I'm a King Bee" and several other songs in December 1964. [4] [5] The recording features Syd Barrett, Bob Klose, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason. When it was officially issued on the vinyl-only 1965: Their First Recordings (2015), it became the only cover song ever released by Pink Floyd.
She gently places the sculptures and the tea set pieces into a white garbage bag. They clatter together ungracefully as she lifts the heavy bag to take with her.