THE GOODEES CANDY COATED GOODEES 1969 NOS SEALED GIRL GROUP POP

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Grading: Vinyl/Jacket

The Goodees Candy Coated Goodees HIP HIS-7002 Mint, NOS, Sealed

Ideas ooze slowly down into Memphis from the coastal flash points of popular culture. In 1968, a bright shiny bulb flickered o'er the dome of one Don Davis, record producer: "The Shangri-Las - what a swell bunch of gals! We oughtta have our own Shangri-Las, southern style!" And thus, perhaps, were The Goodees born.

Never mind that The Shangs' distinctly urban brand of teenage opera had made its mark back in 1965 and '66 - an eternity past in chart-years. A great gimmick is forever, as is the appeal of the archetypal Gang Girl. Multiply her by three or four, and the effect is still more thrilling. A delinquency that in solitude is merely poignant becomes erotically charged en masse. Good-bad, but not evil, the Gang Girl is a fantasy-figure for both sexes. Mix sass, trash, and an anti-Dickensian yen to climb a rung or three down the social ladder, and you have something iconic on your hands. In 1965 it meant stardom for The Shangri-Las, just as it had (in less baroque form) for The Angels and Chiffons; in 1968 it was an interesting regional oddity in the six delicate hands of The Goodees, whose pose was perhaps more appealing for being ridiculously archaic when placed against the mode of pop womanhood being espoused by a Grace Slick or Janis Joplin.
"Condition Red" - which was the closest thing that The Goodees had to a hit single (#46 in December 1968) - is a bold distillation of Shangri-Las' impresario George "Shadow" Morton's writing and Artie Butler's arrangements. The title refers to the code shared by the young vocalist and her swain, a warning that her folks are on the warpath so he'd better lay low. She mimics their persnickety, superficial complaints in a kittenish drawl: "Why doesn't he get a haircut? Why doesn't he shave?/ Y'know, he used to be such a nice lookin' fella before he grew that awwwwful beard!" The leader of the pack was at least (presumably) clean-shaven; the image of a boy on a motorcycle had changed profoundly in a very few years.

Amazing, ain't it? The Shangs may have presented themselves as bad girls, but you somehow knew they'd keep their knees together no matter what. Three sweet little Goodees make manifest the implied sins of every girl group to come before in this one great song.

The rest of the album is a mix of predictable and offbeat covers, and a few originals. "A Little Bit of You" offers an interesting hair-of-the-dog response to a broken heart, when The Goodees beg their lost love for "a little bit of you, enough till I can break away." A raunchy take on The Swingin' Medallions' "Double Shot (of My Baby's Love)" is a fine example of what I'll clumsily call Sor Rock - Frat Rock's flip side. With well-lubricated horns and one drunken, grumbly guitar for accompaniment, The Goodees sound as if they're no strangers to passing out in front yards. The track closes with some very sexy shouts of ooh, yeah, and the like, and it goes particularly well with "Jilted." But transposing the sexes in The Brooklyn Bridge's hit "Worst that Could Happen" was a peculiar idea at best, and when the lead Goodee peals "I'll never get married, you know that's not my scene/ But a boy needs to get married" the only possibly response is to think, my, that's odd.
On the utterly craven "Didn't Know Love Was So Good," the group sound like they're being ravaged, but digging it. Unfortunately, their version of "My Boyfriend's Back" is hampered by an overwrought arrangement and unconvincing vocal. More successful is the nearly funk version of "He's a Rebel," which is notable for the excellent syncopated enunciation: "he's not a rebel, no-no-no" instead of the smeary way The Crystals handled the lyric.

Even if The Goodees' record wasn't such an anomaly for its time, it would be worth seeking out as a fairly strong example of the girl group genre. But because it was recorded in the annus psychedelicus of 1968, its strange blend of innocence and calculation conspire to give it a unique charm. Following an imagined trajectory from The Shangri-Las outward, one can presume that there may be examples of teen death girl group music recorded in Chile in 1974... Bora Bora in 1980... maybe in Uzbekistan last week. In fact, anywhere that young people are forced to fit their passions into the narrow furrows of accepted behavior, maneuvering painfully though the rituals of maturity while dodging the real and imagined missiles of family and of fate, there is a need for such pocket operas. And I'd like to someday to hear those songs, but in the interim, I'm digging the slinky sounds of The Goodees - the girl group's last gasp of 1968.

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