Does anyone else remember The Kingbees? I saw them at Hart Plaza in Detroit for one of the WABX free concerts. I'm pretty sure I was wearing parachute pants that day. I think it was WABX that sponsored those concerts, correct me if I'm wrong. It took me a long time but I finally scored the double CD of The Kingbees.
NOTE: These free concerts were held on Tuesday afternoons and yeah, I skipped school for them. I was such a rebel, you know. It was senior year and I always asked my mom and she always let me since I was pulling down a pretty high grade point.
Gotta love that cool Detroit rockabilly vibe.
I'm grooving to Sweet Sweet Girl and My Mistake. Cripes, how many times did I dance to My Mistake?
Great driving music. Picture one of those great sunny warm Michigan spring days that make you remember why you A) Live in Michigan and B) Own a convertible. (These particular days happen at least once every year during Monsoon Season, a.k.a "Spring" in Michigan.) You've got on your Ray Bans circa 1983 with the top down, a cool battered leather jacket, the tight stonewash jeans with a pair of stilettos and a ripped up lace tee shirt and The Kingbees or Marshall Crenshaw in the tape deck and all is right with the world. You could not possibly be more cool.
I had to choose between school/And a rock-n-roll band/I made up my mind/To rock just the best as I can/I don't want no teachers/Or their rules/You got it right/I'm nobodies fool.
I must be turning 40 soon, I'm totally into reliving my misspent youth lately.
Shake Bop, anyone?
I never went to any of those concerts, but I definitely remember WABX. Aren't they the station that changed formats sometime during senior year? I remember riding to school with Dave T. one morning and we turn to the station and it was Barry Manilow. We were crushed. Another time we were late for school because we sat in the parking lot listening to Ebn Ozn's song A E I O U Sometimes Y on the radio.
Ooh, ooh, all of this reminds me - do you remember about the lost Hawaiians?
Posted by: Darr | April 09, 2006 at 12:08 AM
Marshall Crenshaw! I thought I as the only one who loved him!!! We are soul sisters..we must be!
Posted by: Holly | April 12, 2006 at 10:40 AM
I just met A guy in Detroit named Terry, says he's the drummer for the kingbees and that they are just about to sign w/sony. Is this the same band as the one your talkin' about?
Kinks
Posted by: T. Kinks Heiss | April 30, 2006 at 07:48 PM
How did you get a copy of the King Bees' album? I went to U of M at Ann Arbor and remember them well. Have looked high and low for the album. Any suggestions?
Posted by: CCPohle | July 17, 2006 at 06:30 PM
The Kingbees double CD (two albums on one disc) is available brand new. Just google "kingbees" and hit the links on the first page. You'll find it. Get 'em while they're hot! I discovered them in 1980 and was hooked. Didn't hear them for 25 years until now. Just got my CD copy today and boy, did it bring back great memories! They were an AWESOME group of musicians!
Posted by: Steve Corbett | September 01, 2006 at 10:39 PM
Hi ~ I absolutely remember these guys. The main guy is Canadian. North of Windsor I believe.
That was a great time in music. Kind of pop punk. Romantics, Cheap Trick (in the early days) Yep I am 40. I too remember the Hart Plase shows (BSA, The Look, Cadilac Kids, Polish Muslims).
Thanx for the trip down memory lane. Does anyone remember Honeymoon Suite a couple years later?
Posted by: Gary Pace | November 28, 2006 at 02:26 PM