Abstract Sound - I'm Trying (1967)

Song "I'm Trying" on "Bad Vibrations, Vol. 1 (LP)" & "Prisoners Of The Beat (LP).

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Founded as Abstrack Sound.

Something of a mystery, my understanding is that although their second 45 has a Brooklyn, NY address on the label, the band was actually from Springfield, NJ.

On their second record, the stomping I'm Trying, they're called the Abstract Sound. This one was released twice in 1967, on the Gray Sounds and Sound of Soul labels, and was produced by E. M. Gray.

Bill Monetti and C. Catena wrote their songs, along with Denis Dreher on the second 45. However, the Gray Sounds release lists Dreher as co-writing I'm Trying while the Sound of Soul release gives him co-credit on Blacked Out Mind. BMI lists him on both songs along with Monetti, and drops Catena altogether! Obviously someone screwed up the credits somewhere along the way. To make things still more confusing, the labels are reversed on my copy!

("Submitted by Chas Kit", TNX)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Abstract
• Sound
• I'm
• Trying
• Garage
• Bluesrock
• Springfield
• NJ

[heat619]

HEY I FOUN IT......ONE OF MY GRANDFATHERS RECORDS "Bill Monetti" ........ GO GRAMPY

[rendybullseye]

peace man...

[erykahbadu172]

of green onions

[erykahbadu172]

beggining of this song reminds me

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

a four minute warning prepares you for the sound sourround

tripping's fine, not with the ikes of you barbadians,

till i plow and philosphize

[reinpost]

reminds me of the (Amsterdam) Outsiders

[TheSonOfSatan6661]

My dad was the bass player in this band and about 45 years later, his son plays bass in a thrash band haha

[TheSonOfSatan6661]

This is intense to find my dad as the bass player in this band haha. He goes "holy shit im in on youtube?"

[guiemcs]

good job with the vid and the info!

[clarkewi]

You can see the Go Go girls doing the jerk. Classic.

[TheSunbau]

Thanks for the information - super!! I really like this track. My hobby is to rediscover all those great bands from the 60s that didn´t "reach the highest level". And-it´s a fantastic musical treasure. Listen (Youtube) for example to :

THE ZETTLERS and their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah".

Really f....g good with a bloody driving beat.

THE GOLLIWOGS and the tune "Tell me". Check up the singer---Yes, it´s him!!