The Delrays Lollipop Lady 1968

The Delrays were from Mascoutah, Illinois. Their bass player was Denny Ambry. Their guitarist was Tom Bowles. Their drummer was Don "Barney" Biever. Rich Lang was on guitar. Their sax player was Jim Lang. They played small venues in Southern Illinois during the mid 1960s. They opened for The Beatles at Busch stadium in St. Louis at one time. They mostly played at a place called "Collinsville Park Ballroom" as the weekly act.

The same Delrays (in one word) recorded another single at Stax for the Stax subsidiary Arch in 1968, produced by Nick Charles and Steve Cropper (see the Arch listing in the "various singles" post 68 lists.

They were a good cover band and opened for the Beatles when the Beatles played in St. Louis. Nick Charles was a DJ for KXOK radio AM and was their manager. After the band broke up, the Lang brothers members of the Delrays formed a band called The Guild.

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[braymanj]

I remember the DelRays opening for The Beatles at Busch, even though it's been 45 years. They were so lucky to have met the Fab 4. Tom Bowles gave John Lennoon a rubber chicken.

For some reason, I always remembered that.

[TheGWFrog]

The flip side, with Michael McDonald singing lead was, "Always Something There To Remind Me"

[TheGWFrog]

When this was recorded, the band was Thom, Denny, Barney, new lead guitarist Russ Bono, & the tambourine player (who was the lead singer on the A side of this record), sixteen year old Michael McDonald who went on to play with a couple of other bands you might have heard of. Rich & Jim had already formed The Guild when Terry Dugger got out of the Army & Thom & Denny preferred Barney as a drummer.

[ygetup1]

RIP Tommy "Blue" Bowles. A great musician and a wonderful friend. Had the pleasure of playing with in his later years. I think he remembered every song there ever was.