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Date Posted: 13:34:33 10/19/02 Sat
In reply to:
Joey Krol WEBMASTER
's message, "Re: Trolls" on 02:51:02 10/19/02 Sat
Every Day and Every Night----Top 10 in Chicago
The Troll(s)
Personnel:
RICHARD CLARK
organ, vcls
A
RICHARD GALLAGHER
gtr, vcls
A
MAX JORDAN, Jr.
bs, vcls
A
KEN APPLES
drms
KEN CORTESE
drms
ALBUM:
1(A)
ANIMATED MUSIC
(Smash SRS 67114)
1968
NB: (1) counterfeited on CD (Flashback 10) 1997.
45s:
1
Every Day And Every Night/Are You
The One?
(ABC Paramount 10823)
Feb. 1966 96
2
Something Here Inside/Laughing All The
Way
(ABC Paramount 10884)
Dec. 1966 -
3
There Was A Time/They Don't Know
(ABC Paramount 10916)
1967
4
Baby, What You Ain't Got (I Ain't In
Need)/Who Was That Boy?
(ABC Paramount 10952)
1967
5
I Got To Have You/Don't Come Around
(USA 905)
Feb. 1968
129
6
Satin City News/Professor Potts
Pornographic Projector
(Smash S-2208)
Jan. 1969 -
NB: (5) also issued as a one-sided promo of I Got To Have You. (6) both tracks are from the LP.
The Trolls inhabited Chicago, Illinois and issued several noteworthy 45s. They kicked off with
Ever Day And Every Night, forceful beat modelled loosely on Gloria, backed by a Beatlesque
ballad. The follow-up was more overtly Invasion pop, with two upbeat ditties a lá Herman's
Hermits. They Don't Know continued in the same vein and added a slightly fuzzy guitar. There
Was A Time is a frantic fuzzy popper with harmonica, Cryan' Shames harmonies and a rousing
ending. Until that point all had been written or co-written by Richard Clark. Then Richard Gallagher
came up with Baby, What You Ain't Got... and they let RIP with a stormin' fuzz-fest of heavy pop
- awesome! The flip is harmony-pop and sounds exactly like The Critters.
They may have been having an identity crisis around late 1967 because a 45 appeared by The
Carnival Of Sound - Don't Come Around / I Can't Remember (USA 892) - shortly before their
early 1968 release of the identical track (according to the Mindrocker, Vol. 2 notes). In any event
the Trolls' USA 45 is decent pop with Don't Come Around being the stronger cut by far, a real
catchy popper with pumping Diddleyesque riff. After that they retreated to their underground lair...
They re-emerged towards the end of the year as psychedelic-pop-rockers Troll, with a very
interesting album. This included the powerful Werewolf and Witchbreath and a number of other
psychedelic numbers such as Satin City News and Everybody's Child, alongside the lighthearted
Professor Potts Pornographic Projector and Have You Seen The Queen?. The album had a
smattering of slower numbers, too, notably A Winter's Song and I've Only Myself To Blame. The
album is recommended but originals are not easily obtained, as it's now a mini-collectors' item.
Compilation appearances include: Don't Come Around on Mindrocker, Vol. 2 (LP); Everyday
And Every Night on Psychedelic Unknowns, Vol. 3 (LP & CD), The Essential Pebbles
Collection Vol. 1 (Dble CD) and Pebbles Vol. 7 (CD); A recording of I Got To Have You from
February 1968 has also been included on the Early Chicago compilation.
(Vernon Joynson / Max Waller)
The Trolls
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