I was listening to Sirius radio last night-the '60s Show is great. along with many songs i haven’t heard for years was “Lies”-by “The Knickerbockers”. They sounded remarkably like the Beatles-was this their one and only hit?
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That page shows you they had a #46 hit and a #94 hit, and “Lies” made it to #20. You can also find out a lot more about them by clicking around that page.
No, their next two singles also made the Billboard charts. “One Track Mind” went to #46 and “High on Love” went to #94. Both are from 1966. They released a handful of additional singles in 1966-1968 but had no more chart action.
"…The Knickerbockers were mentored by Jerry Fuller who’d penned several sings for Rick Nelson prior to Jerry being drafted into the U.S. military. Upon his discharge, Fuller, a Texan working out of California, was sent yo New York to run the East Coast office of Challenge Records, the Hollywood based label that employed him. He chanced upon The Knickerbockers in a bar in Albany, New York, In 1965, he and his newly signed band re-located to Los Angeles where The Knickerbockers soon became a popular club attraction. They were essentially a good ‘cover’ band.
‘Lies’ was their third 45 on Challenge. Band member Beau Charles later said, “We desperately tried to write something that sounded like the British Invasion’. We wrote ‘Lies’ in less than on half hour. We demo-ed it in New York.” After a Jerry Fuller inspired re-arrangement, the track was recorded at Sunset Sound in West Hollywood with Bruce Botnick as the Engineer. Things were not quite right, so the multi-track master was taken to Leon Russell’s house in Hollywood Hills. Jerry Fuller knew Leon and “Leon had this great little studio - just a four track”. The band recorded the vocals there and overdubbed a new guitar part that was recorded from a beat up old Fender guitar amp that gave the guitar sound a meaty, edgy feel…"
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*'Classic Track' - 'Lies' - The Knickerbockers (1965) | Steve Hoffman Music Forums
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