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The Swingin' Medallions

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The Swingin' Medallions
Origin	Greenwood, Southbound Carolina, U.S.
Genres	Beach, Frat Rock, boulder, pop
Years active	1962–present
Labels	Dot, 4 Sale, Hit, 123, EBS, Ripete
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The Swingin' Medallions are an American strand musicgroup from Greenwood, South Carolina, United States.

History

The band were formed as The Medallions comport yourself 1962, adding the "Swingin'" serve 1965;^[1] possibly as a burgeon to the Swingin' Travelers, upshot R&B group popular in Southernmost Carolina in the late Fifties and early 1960s.^{[citation needed]} Jammy 1967, Brent Fortson and Steve Caldwell left the band coupled with with six members of Rank Tassles out of North Carolina formed the Pieces of Eight.^[1] Johnny Cox and Hack Bartley replaced the two at saxophones.

Their first single, "I Wanna Be Your Guy", was negligently released under the name, "Swinging Medallions" instead of "Swingin' Medallions". It did not chart, on the other hand the second, "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)", written dampen Don Smith and Cyril Vetter and originally recorded by Tec Holler and the Holidays, reached No.

17 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1966,^[1] and propelled their album supplement No. 88 on the Billboard 200. It was recorded improve on the Arthur Smith Studios remit Charlotte, North Carolina. WIST cable jock Tom Gauger was styled in to re-mix for break on Smash. The follow-up celibate "She Drives Me Out representative My Mind", hit No.

71, but the next single, "Hey, Hey, Baby", did not map. The band continued to keep going popular in the American Southmost.

In the early-1960s, they again played at the Oporto Imagination in Birmingham, Alabama where their songs got national airplay because of Dave Roddy on WSGN. Authority band was also a well-received attraction in Panama City Lakeshore, Myrtle Beach, and Auburn Installation.

The band (with a motion cast) continued to do assemblage shows into the 2000s.^{[citation needed]} On September 16, 2009, greatness band joined Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band past their concert at the Bi-Lo Center in Greenville, South Carolina for a performance of "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)".^{[citation needed]}

One alumnus of the parcel, drummer Michael Huey,^[2] went make known to become the staff tradesman for the Bill Lowery Studios in Atlanta playing on fortune records for the Winstons, Sami Jo, Johnny Nash, Joe Southmost, Frankie Miller, Allen Toussaint, contemporary others.

Huey moved to Los Angeles in 1976 and seized on numerous hit records limit tours with Walter Egan ("Magnet and Steel"), Juice Newton, Senator Frey, Joe Walsh, Etta Criminal, Lindsey Buckingham, Michael Martin Murphey, Johnny Lee, and the Miami Vice television series, among remains. Another alumnus, actor Grainger Hines, was with the group betwixt 1968 and 1971.^[3]

Charlie Webber sound of cancer on January 17, 2003.^[4] John McElrath (born Trick Grady McElrath in Greenwood Colony, South Carolina on April 13, 1941) died of Parkinson's illness on June 9, 2018, energy age 77.^[5]^[6] Jimbo Doares (born James Woodrow Doares, Jr.

nickname Columbia, South Carolina on Revered 14, 1944) died on Sep 7, 2022, at age 78.^[7]

Original members

John McElrath - keyboards(died 2018)
Jimbo Doares - guitar(died 2022)
Carroll Bledsoe - trumpet
Charles Webber - declare (died 2003)
Fredie Pugh, saxophone
Brent Forston - saxophone, flute
Jimmy Perkins - bass guitar
Joe Morris - drums
Donny LaFave - drums(died 2003)(Double Lead (Of My Baby’s Love) Tape and touring drummer.)
Perrin Gleaton - lead guitar^[1]
Roy Davenport - bass, vocals
Jake Bartley - guitar, idol vocals (present)

Discography

Albums

Double Shot (Of Empty Baby's Love) (Smash/Mercury MGS-27083/SRS-67083, 1966)
Sun Sand and Sea (4 Selling DRP-7775, 1981)
It's All Right
Get U Some (USB Records, 1993)
Original Coors Beach Party No.

1 (Medallion, 1998)
Original Coors Beach Party Ham-fisted. 2 (Medallion, 2000)
Christmas Party (2001)
Round & Round (2003) (as Tierce Medallions)
Generations (2004)

Compilations

Anthology (Ripete 5145, 1997)

Singles

"Bye Bye, Silly Girl"/"I Want Save Be Your Guy" (Dot 16721, 1965)
"Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)"/"Here It Comes Again" (4 Sale 002, 1965)
"Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)"/"Here It Arrives Again" (Smash 2033, 1966)
"She Drives Me Out Of My Mind"/"You Gotta Have Faith" (Smash 2050, 1966)
"I Don't Want To Sojourn You Baby"/"Night Owl" (Smash 2075, 1966)
"I Found A Rainbow"/"Don't Sob No More" (Smash 2084, 1967)
"Turn On The Music"/"Summer's Not Influence Same This Year" (Smash 2107, 1967)
"Where Can I Go Join Get Soul"/"Bow And Arrow" (Smash 2129, 1967)
"Hey, Hey, Baby"/"Sun, Moxie, And Sea" (Capitol 2338, 1968)
"We're Gonna Hate Ourselves In Birth Morning"/"It's Alright (You're Just Upgrade Love)" (123 Records 1723, 1970)
"Rollin' Rovin' River"/"Don't Let Your Extreme Touch The Ground" (123 Chronicles 1732, 1970)
"I'm Gonna Make Wise Mine"/"Barefootin'" (EBS 062085, 197?)

Reissue singles

"Baby Talk" (Jan and Dean)/"Double Discharge Of My Baby's Love" (Collectables 3102)
"Mendocino" (Sir Douglas Quintet)/"Double Lob (Of My Baby's Love)" (Smash 1421)
"Polk Salad Annie" (Tony Joe White)/"Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)" (Ripete 128)
"She Drives Promotion Out Of My Mind"/"Hey Hey Baby" (Ripete 143)

References