![]() ![]() 1 “Strangers in the Night” kept the tune from the top) as “sort of a life adventure.” sales charts and concert venues, and The Cyrkle’s July 1966 chart success (only Frank and Nancy Sinatra’s No. “The band was just so breathless about the whole thing, to go from a fairly funky bar in Atlantic City to Columbia Records and Brian Epstein and The Beatles’ tour.”ĭawes described the tour, which occurred at the height of Beatlemania the British Invasion of English rock groups of U.S. He (Epstein) was so powerful then that he gave a real zest to our career. They took a big full-page ad in Billboard (the music trade publication). “We went in and did ‘Red Rubber Ball.’ Brian (Epstein) got involved and got Columbia (Records) to get behind us. “He (Weiss) just happened to come in and we got to talking. We were really a good band,” said Dawes, a Brooklyn, N.Y., native who shared lead vocals, guitar (his sitar opens “Turn Down Day”) and songwriting with Dannemann, who grew up in Albany, N.Y. “We had been playing at this place in Atlantic City every night for two summers. ![]() Previously, Dawes was in the Ironwood Knights, a folk group at Lafayette. Nat Weiss, a New York City attorney and associate of Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, discovered The Cyrkle, then a frat band called the Rhondells, at the Alibi Lounge, an Atlantic City nightclub. We had our, like, one and a half,” said Dawes from New York City, where he’s lived and worked since his Cyrkle days at Lafayette. In 1994, Columbia issued 18-song compilation CD. ![]() * The Cyrkle declined to record another Simon tune, “59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy),” a hit for the group, Harpers Bazaar.īetween 19 The Cyrkle released two albums - both produced by John Simon, who produced The Band’s “Music from Big Pink” debut - and nine singles. * Paul Simon cowrote “Red Rubber Ball” with Bruce Woodley, a member of the Seekers, best known for the 1965 hit, “Georgy Girl.” Dawes befriended Simon when he played bass on Simon and Garfunkel’s first tour in 1966, which included a concert at Muhlenberg College, Allentown. ![]()
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