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Canned Heat

1967-1970

(Pictured Above - Left to Right)

Harvey "The Snake" Mandel ?
Larry "The Mole" Taylor ?
Bob "The Bear" Hite
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson
Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra ?

Band Members

Bob "The Bear" Hite
Born: February 26, 1943 Torrance, California
Died: April 5, 1981 Los Angeles, California
At the Palomino in Los Angeles, Hite collasped and died of a heart attack, at the age of 38.

Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson
Born: July 4, 1943 Boston, Massachusetts
Died: September 3, 1970 Los Angeles, California
Wilson committed suicide on a hillside behind Bob Hite's Topanga Canyon home in California of a drug overdose at age 27. He had reportedly attempted suicide twice before. He had recently undergone psychiatric care in a hospital and, upon his release, had been placed under Hite's care.

Harvey "The Snake" Mandel
Born: March 11, 1945 Detroit, Michigan

Henry "The Sunflower" Charles Vestine
Born: December 25, 1944 Takoma Park, Maryland
Died: October 20, 1997 Paris, France
Vestine quit the band in July 1969 due to tension with Larry Taylor. When Larry Taylor & Harvey Mandel left the band in May 1970, Vestine returned to Canned Heat. Vestine had finished a European tour with Canned Heat when he died from heart and respiratory failure, in a Paris hotel on the morning of October 20, 1997, just as the band was to return to the United States. Henry Vestines's ashes are interred at the Oak Hill Cemetery outside of Eugene, Oregon. A memorial fund has been set up in his name. The fund will be used for maintenance of his resting place at Oak Hill Cemetery and, when it is possible, for conveyance of some of his ashes to the Vestine Crater on the moon, as has been his wish.

Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra
Born: February 8, 1946 Mexico City, Mexico

Samuel Larry "The Mole" Taylor
Born: June 26, 1942 Brooklyn, New York
Taylor was the brother of Ventures' drummer, Mel Taylor.

Going Up The Country 1
(1968)

Going Up The Country 2
(1968)

Going Up The Country 3
(1968)

Rollin' And Tumblin'
(1967)

Coven

Picture on Left (Left to Right)
Rick Durrett, Jinx Dawson (blonde hair), Steve Ross, Oz Osborne

Picture on Right: Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack

Coven was formed in the late 1960s, composed of vocalist Jinx Dawson, bassist Oz Osborne (not to be confused with Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath), Chris Neilsen on guitar, Rick Durrett and later John Hobbs on keyboards, and drummer Steve Ross. They are recognized as being the band that first introduced the "Sign of the Horns" to rock and pop culture (as seen on their 1969 debut album release Witchcraft).

Coven had a top 40 hit on Warner Bros. Records with "One Tin Soldier." It was written and composed by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, and originally was released in 1969 by the Canadian group The Original Caste. Tom Laughlin asked Jinx Dawson to record the "One Tin Soldier" song for his 1971 Billy Jack movie. Dawson, sang the song at a session with the film's orchestra as part of the film soundtrack, and asked that Coven be listed on the recording and film, not her name as a solo artist. Coven's recording charted three times, first in 1971 (#26), only to be pulled from the charts by the Billy Jack film producers as it was moving up due to legal squabbles over the rights to the recording.

The full Coven band then reluctantly re-recorded the song for their MGM album. Thus the MGM album containing a second version of this song displayed their whited-out faces on the cover, contrived again by the film's producer Tom Laughlin. The recording then hit the charts again in both 1973 and 1974 near the end of the Vietnam War and the release of the film "The Trial of Billy Jack." The Coven recording was named Number One All Time Requested Song in 1971 and 1973 by the American Radio Broadcasters Association. A slightly different version recorded by Guy Chandler (titled "One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)") charted in summer 1973.

One Tin Soldier 1
(1971, 1973, 1974)

One Tin Soldier 2
(1971, 1973, 1974)

Cymarron

(Left to Right)
Richard Mainegra, Sherrill Parks, Rick Yancey

Band Members

Rick Marshall Yancey
Born: 1948

Sherrill Parks

Richard Merz Mainegra
Born: 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana
(Grew up in nearby Slidell)

They named their group after Cimarron Strip - a short-lived TV western from 1967.

"Rings" was written by outside songwriters Eddie Reeves and Alex Harvey. Eddie said that a couple he knew, Bob and Chris, were going to be married, so he and Alex wrote the song a month before they got married, as a wedding present. Alex and Eddie sang the song at the rehearsal dinner and several more times on the wedding day. All references in the song are related to their relationship. The wedding had taken place on the beach at 6:00 AM in front of the beach house that was referred to in the song. That's why "the sun comes up across the city" lyric was in the song. Before the song was written, everyone knew the wedding was going to be at sunrise on the beach. This has to be a fairly unknown fact about this song.

In 1991, Yancey and Mainegra joined Jimmy Griffin in forming the country music band The Remingtons. Yancey and Griffin also performed together as GYC until Griffin's death in 2005.

Rings 1
(1971)

Rings 2
(1971)

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone (also known as Peter Lee Stirling), was born Peter Charles Green.
Born: July 31, 1942 in Birmingham, England

"Beautiful Sunday" was written by Boone and Rod McQueen. It peaked at No. 15 on The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the summer of 1972. In 1972, Boone was the recipient of the "Most Likeable Singer" award from Rolling Stone magazine.

Beautiful Sunday 1
(1972)

Beautiful Sunday 2
(1972)