CATERPILLAR CRAWL

Created on 21/09/2002
Latest update on 27/07/2023

Artist: Strangers
Author: Joel Scott Hill/Ronny Lynch/Johnny Callard/Harold Kirby
Label: Titan
Year: 1959

Californian pre surf instrumentalists. Leader Joel Scott Hill ended up with Canned Heat, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Moby Grape. Rejected original title: Cockroach Crawl. Reissued on The Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll Vol. 7 (Ace).

Covers:

1962:

Rumblers [as Boss; band named after Link Wray's instrumental]

1963:

Lively Ones

1964:

Billy Vaughn [as Boss, a surf term ("Boss this, boss that")]

1980:

Cramps [as Garbage Man]

1993:

Dick Dale

2000:

Canned Heat [seventies recording]

Contact


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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

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