Vinyl Album - The Buggs - The Beetle Beat - Coronet

Vinyl Album

Artist:	The Buggs
Title:	The Beetle Beat
Label:	Coronet
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	CX 212
Date:	Mar 1964
Format:	Mono LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	12 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Buggs	I Want To Hold Your Hand		6.0 Rate
A2	The Buggs	Mersey Mercy		6.0 Rate
A3	The Buggs	Soho Mash		7.0 Rate
A4	The Buggs	East End		5.0 Rate
A5	The Buggs	London Town Swing		6.0 Rate
B1	The Buggs	She Loves You		6.0 Rate
B2	The Buggs	Liverpool Drag		8.0 Rate
B3	The Buggs	Swingin' Thames		6.0 Rate
B4	The Buggs	Big Ben Hop		6.0 Rate
B5	The Buggs	Teddy 'Boy Stomp		7.0 Rate

Notes

Beatles parody.
Cover says "recorded in England", actually recorded at Kay Banks Studios, Minneapolis, MN USA
Group is from Omaha Nebraska

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BigBadBluesMan 20th Jul 2021



Michael Warre SUBS 17th Apr 2018		The Blue vs Purple, being Mono vs Stereo. The copy shown is blue and if we assume the flip side was posted from the same LP, the flip states mono. My copy is purple and the flip is exactly the same as shown above as mono. I would believe the color variant is due to different press runs but then which was the 1st one.



TheDroid 14th Apr 2018		I just read on the Steve Hoffman Music Forum that the color banner on the album front denotes mono (blue) or stereo (purple). Not sure of the validity of this as I have never seen the purple banner cover.



Michael Warre SUBS 13th Apr 2018		This is NOT! THE BUGGS on Soma. Despite the cover displaying "The original Liverpool sound", and claiming to have been "Recorded in England," The Buggs hailed from New Jersey and the album was actually recorded in the New York/New Jersey area. The Buggs were never a real band; rather, the album was recorded by a group named the Coachmen V from Bergen County, New Jersey, under the impression that it would be released under that name. The album was produced by Goldie Goldman, who hired a songwriter to write the original tracks. Some rehearsing of the material was done in Nyack, New York at Scotty's Bar, after which the album was recorded. Band personnel included Bill Omolski on bass, Gary Wright (later to have a successful solo career with hits such as "Dream Weaver") on organ and vocals, Frank Zillitto ( 1942 - Dec. 2017) on guitar, Steve Bogue on drums, and either Eddie Brick or Jimmy Carrol on lead vocals (Brick and Carrol both worked as lead vocalist for the Coachman V at different times, and it is not known which one sang on the Buggs album). Studio musician Trade Martin also played on album. Band members were surprised (and unhappy) when they discovered that album had been released under a different band name, under false pretenses, and with models representing the band members, and when no royalties were ever paid, The Buggs ceased to exist. In 1966, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "



boyjohn 25th Nov 2017



Trainman 16th Jul 2015		Sorry I didn't respond sooner, I just saw this comment. Yes it is very dark purple. In actuality perhaps just a shade darker than the image (That is actually a photograph rather than a scan)



TheDroid 15th Apr 2015		Although far from pristine, uploaded a "cleaner" front cover, as well as the missing back cover with a nod to Trainman for original scan. Is the purple background at the top the actual color or a scanning issue? I have never seen one other than blue.



Trainman 29th Aug 2014		Uploaded label scan as primary image since my sleeve is in pretty bad shape.

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Linked Releases

USA - Coronet - 1964 [Mono]

USA - Coronet - 1964 [Stereo]