Beebe Gallini formed in January of last year - cultivating a live repertoire focused on garage, girl group, mod, and bubblegum favorites of the '60s. The band sticks to that niche on its debut album Need All The Help I Can Get. These ladies tackle (mostly) covers of soul classics, garage rock obscurities, and girl group standards - paying homage to the original source material while also putting their own signature on it. MGP is a total powerhouse on lead vocals, and this band suits her talents so well. If you don't make a regular practice of dancing around your house like a maniac, this release just might compel you to start! And ya gotta love that organ! Standout numbers include the Lee Hazelwood penned title track (first recorded by Suzi Jane Hokom in 1966), the Ohio Express/Rare Breed shaker "Beg, Borrow, and Steal", O.V. Wright's "That's How Strong My Love Is" (famously covered by both Otis Redding and the Rolling Stones), Lesley Gore's 1965 B-side "No Matter What You Do", and The Equals' should-have-been smash "Softly Softly".
Need All The Help I Can Get was mixed by the great Travis Ramin, and it's a name your price download over at his Bandcamp page. If you've played your Girls In The Garage and Nuggets compilations to death, Beebe Gallini is definitely the band for you. Who says that nothing good in life is free?!
-L.R.
https://travisraminproducer.bandcamp.com/album/beebe-gallini-need-all-the-help-i-can-get
https://www.facebook.com/Beebe-Gallini-989988974348602/
2 comments:
To the Right Honourable Lord Rutledge. I've mailed he band and the producer, done a fair amount of googling, but I can't find the origin of the "Little Sister" track on here. Can you or one of your garage aficionados point me to the original?
(Hello and thank you, Lord Rutledge!) Lynn Zecca here, bass player for Beebe Gallini. Our leading lady Georgia Conley Ramin wrote "Little Sister."
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