St John and the Crew
Listen/Download – St John and the Crew – I’m a Man
Listen/Download – St John and the Crew – You Belong To Me
Greetings all.
I am a huge fan of vintage comps (i.e those released in the 60s) as they are a fantastic way to find unusual/unknown tracks, or things that are otherwise only available of very expensive 45s.
A while back I grabbed the Dutch comp ‘All Together Now’ released on the Turnette label in 1968.
The record is a collection of 45s released in the Netherlands on labels like Park, Whamm, and Ronnex labels by a variety of pop and beat groups/artists.
Today’s tracks by St John and the Crew were originally released on the group’s sole Whamm 45 in 1966/67.
The group, Jan Stam, Klaas Benschot, Nico Veenman, Theo Daatselaar, and Ton Vosmeer hailed from Utrecht.
‘I’m a Man’ is a very groovy, fuzzed out bit of Nederbeat/garage that sounds (accents aside) like a US garage 45.
The flip ‘You Belong To Me’ is the highlight. A fantastic, moody beat ballad it ought to be much better known.
Botht tracks were reissued in the 80s on the Nederbeat comps ‘Flight To Lowlands Paradise’ and ‘Highlights In the Lowlands’.
I hope you dig the tracks, and I’ll see you all next week.
See you next week.
Peace
Larry
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Iron Leg 
Hi Larry, love your podcast and this blog! I actually just purchased the Lamp of Childhood 45 of “Season of the Witch b/w You Can’t Blame Me” after hearing the latter song here first!
There was a song by the Rainy Day Friends, “Not Like Before,” that you have featured on your show many times, and I think you posted an mp3 of it here several years ago. I was wondering if you might do a re-post, It is one of my favorites from your show!
Thank you and Kind Regards,
Aidan