Please contact me at if you can loan or donate original materials Archives ArchivesĬopyright © Chris Bishop, 2022, except where noted otherwise. Please consider donating archival materials such as photos, records, news clippings, scrapbooks or other material from the '60s. I am dedicated to making this site a center for research about '60s music scenes. Dan Keller on The Juveniles (DC) “I Wish I Could” on Zap.Jill (friend of D.Keller) on The Juveniles (DC) “I Wish I Could” on Zap.Debby Marshall on The Ninth Street Bridge.If you have information on a band featured here, please let me know and I will update the site and credit you accordingly. All entries can be updated, corrected and expanded. Search site is a work in progress on 1960s garage rock bands. The Runabouts had a website that is long defunct, but parts of it are available on the Wayback Machine, where I found the photo at top. Released on CEI Records CE127, the code RI2521 indicates Recordings, Incorporated in Baltimore pressed the single, published through Bro-Nik. ![]() He continued to record bands, changing the name of the label to CEI Records. From 1966 to 1968 he was in the Army, stationed in Aberdeen. Brown came from Fremont, Ohio, where he had a recording studio, releasing records on his Courier label. With graduation, military service and work commitments taking members to far flung locations, the band split up after two years but then got back together for a successful reunion concert in Havre de Grace in 2006. The Runabouts played local teen dances at venues such as Teen Town at Aberdeen Proving Ground and Fiddler’s Green at the old Bainbridge Naval Training Center.Īfter a couple of lineup changes and the addition of horn, sax and keyboard players, the eight-piece version of the Runabouts was active in 19 playing local dances and events and even cutting one 45 rpm record: “Way of Life,” written by guitarist Jim Skrivanek, backed by “All in All,” written by guitarist Joe Pascuzzi and keyboardist Dennis Trimble, on the independent CEI label out of Ohio. The Runabouts was originally formed by Havre de Grace area high school students as a five-piece guitar, bass and drum combo in 1966. The Baltimore Sun gave a short history of the group when the Runabouts had a reunion on May 19, 2012: The Runabouts formed in 1966 and expanded into an octet by the time they broke up in 1968. I’m partial to the slow, moody flip, “All Is All”. “Way of Life” is fast-paced with horn arrangements. ![]() The two sides of their single have very different sounds. The Runabouts, photo taken NovemThe Runabouts came from Havre de Grace, Maryland, about 40 miles northeast of Baltimore.
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