Today I interviewed the Puzzle People, who were East Chicago, IN hometown

favorites and who cut a record on the ohio-based AMG label in 1977. Their

record even got played once on American Bandstand but died due to a lack of

promotion and distribution. The interview is at the bottom of my webpage:

https://www.sittinginthepark.com/interviews.html

As a bonus, I also included the music part of the show this week. I saved it

as a separate file so you could listen to the music or the interview

independently. I started off the show with a focus on other Gary / East

Chicago area groups. The show is available at:

https://www.sittinginthepark.com/10-21-2007.mp3

Here is the playlist from my show. Thanks.

Veratiles - Lonely man - Staff

Richard Brown - Sweet and kind - Steeltown

Velts - I'm so weak - Sundown

Lost weekend - The Bridge of love - Lost Weekend

Realistics - You're my sweet chocolate drops - Brunswick

The Impulse - Once in a lifetime - Score

Presidents - I miss my baby - Deluxe

Carol Chandler - Time hasn't changed you - Steel City

Marlynns - The very next time - Daran

Devotions - Can you explain it - Nation

Dramatics - Fell for you - Volt

Dynamics - We found love - Columbia

JR Bailey - Love Love Love - Toy

thanks,

Bob

Hi Bob,

thanks again!! great listening as usual. Will listen to the interview bit later when doing nothing

Edited October 22, 200717 yr by chalky

  chalky said:

Hi Bob,

thanks again!! great listening as usual. Will listen to the interview bit later when doing nothing

Thanks again. One thing that I didn't announce during my show that people here might be interested in is that Mel Britt was actually a member of the Versatiles on Staff.

Cheers for posting!

Best,

Melismo

That Puzzle People 45 is really good - it always reminds me of the Temps in their early 70s period. Steve

  Steve G said:

That Puzzle People 45 is really good - it always reminds me of the Temps in their early 70s period. Steve

especially the group name? haha.

It's kind of hard to believe that Dick Clark's american bandstand played such random records that that record got on. (apparently it was in some "you rate new records" segment). It would be cool to somehow get footage of that (with people dancing to the record) or even other episodes to see what other crazy 45s that no one ever heard otherwise got broadcast on nationally syndicated american TV.