The Will-O-Bees

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The Will-O-Bees were an American folk rock trio from the late 1960s.

The vocal trio of Janet Blossom, Steve Porter and Robert Merchanthouse, stylistically based on the vocal style of Peter, Paul and Mary and The Seekers , which was popular at the time , released their first single on Date Records in 1966, Why Can't They Accept Us? , with the B-side The World I Used to Know (Date – 2-1515). They became known in 1967 with their version of the later The Monkees hit Shades of Gray , which was their only chart success in the United States (Date – 2-1543). In the same year followed the single It's Not Easy / Looking Glass , produced by Bill Traut and arranged by Shorty Rogers (Date – 2-1583).

The trio received a recording contract with Columbia sub-label SGC Records (Screen Gems-Columbia) in 1968 ; The Will-O-Bees' first single on the label was Make Your Kind of Music ( Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil ) with the B-side Listen to the Music . After two more singles, November Monday / It's Getting Better (SGC 45-07) and The Ugliest Girl in Town / I Can't Quit Lovin 'You Baby (SGC 45-404), the band broke up.

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  1. ↑ http://jabartlett.wordpress.com/tag/will-o-bees/
  2. ^ Billboard August 10, 1968
  3. ↑ The Ugliest Girl in Town was the theme tune of a TV sitcom