The O'Kaysions - Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa

Released in 1969, this record by the Girl Watcher boys was the 3rd of 3 singles they had on the ABC record label. This B side cover of a classic Gene Pitney record was not on their Girl Watcher album, and has never been reissued since the release of this 45, which is fairly obscure as it is, since it never charted. Dig this record, and hear great obscure tunes like this one every single night on www.topshelfoldies.com!

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[orvgg]

where these guys black?

[TopshelfTom]

@orvgg No they weren't.

[realtorgirl09]

Let me know if you find "Love Machine." My dad ( Donnie Weaver) is the lead singer. It was always one of my favorites. I don't have a copy of it any more. I don't remeber the on by the Roosters, but of coarse I was only a year old when these songs came out.

[realtorgirl09]

My dad is the lead singer on this track, but this is the first time I have ever heard it. I knew it existed. I saw it on Ebay, just didn't have anything to play it on any more.

This song wasn't on the Girl Watcher Albulm.

[rslitman]

I see that I commented on this one a year ago. I was just now searching for their 2nd single, "Love Machine" (but didn't find it). I always wondered if it was the same "Love Machine" that was also done by a group called the Roosters that same year. Now that the Roosters' record has been posted here, I wanted to play both of them to see if they were the same song. I had heard OF but never heard the Roosters' song before this past week. I'm not sure if I ever heard the O'Kaysions' "Love Machine".

[peeterpoon]

O'Kaysions producer Bill Szymczyk would go on to produce the Eagles.

[ppgilles]

check out girl watcher, their biggest hit, good video on u tube. Weaver is still performing and writing new stuff, though with a different style

[rslitman]

I do recall hearing this song by what I thought at the time was a black r&b group on the radio in the late 1960s. I didn't learn that this group was white until the 1990s, so it may have been this group. The song was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

[StanBennet]

I never liked this song until I heard this version. Weaver was (and still is) one heck of a vocalist.