The Royal Guardsmen - Squeaky Vs. The Black Knight

This one is an incredibly rare 45, and being the slacker that I am, I decided to swipe the label scan from this blog: http://musicmasteroldies.blogspot.com/2009/12/squeaky-vs-black-knight.html however the audio in the video has been in my collection for years - the audio on the blog does sound better, i will admit....either way you have a chance to hear quite a rare song here, it was available for roughly two weeks before it was pulled in favor of the common version of the song, Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron. I guess they were waiting to get the Canadian rights from Charles Schulz but he wouldn't budge until they paid him some money, or something. This one almost never comes up for sale, with the last few documented sales going for BIG bucks....Canadians, check your record collections -- if you have this one, you're sitting on a small fortune! Enjoy.

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• Royal
• Guardsmen
• Squeaky
• Verses
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• Black
• Knight
• Canadian
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• Laurie
• Records
• 1966

[MikeBlitzMag]

In defiance of all logic, this has been left off of all of the CD reissues of the Royal Guardsmen's albums. One of them should have at least included it as a bonus track!

[ivansnyder]

Holy cow....so this is like.. one like the red baron only black night...

[DropPodFullOfPonies]

My mind is reeling over this re-recording. I'm imagining a Canadian beaver piloting a...well, it can't be a doghouse...a beaver dam?...over Europe and shooting down a...black?...Fokker triplane...if it weren't in English, I'd swear it was a Chinese bootleg or something.

[motoplan]

Von Richtofen's granddaughter lived on a farm near us in Southern Ontario in the mid sixties. She felt the lyrics offended the memory of her grandfather, and apparently initiated the suit. Wish I'd bought a copy at the time.

[horarwgt]

Due to copyright problems, Laurie Records had to call the Royal Guardsmen's lead singer, Barry Winslow, back into the studio in 1966 to record a lead vocal with these slightly different lyrics oved the original backing track for release in Canada only. Capitol now owns all the Laurie masters but may not even know the story behind this oddball release. And yes, this version SHOULD be on any Royal Guardsmen "Greatest Hits"-type reissue compilation CD.

[mbgoode1]

Incredible. Thank you so much. A bucked-tooth beaver with a gleem in his eye!

[mbgoode1]

Incredible. Thank you so much. A bucked-tooth beaver with a gleem in his eye!

[Lukerd]

Damn Canada and copyrighted things..... this song scares me.

[khtyson1]

Great tune.

[xfilehpgal03]

My dad has this record... Been looking for this on Itunes and not finding it...