Spotlight Central: Is this the same group that went on to cut a four-song demo at Dick Charles Recording in NYC?įrank Jeckell: Some of it. Sometimes we’d play at swim clubs, and sometimes we would play dances at high school gyms or in church basements, but certainly there weren’t any bars as we weren’t old enough to do that! We played pop songs of the day - a lot of British Invasion stuff and Beach Boys and various hit songs - and our gigs were pretty much everywhere. What kind of music did you perform and where did you play?įrank Jeckell: We were just a cover band none of us in the band at the time were writing anything. Spotlight Central: A few years later - in 1965 - you founded the group, Jeckell and the Hydes, a high school garage band. My father paid him $25 for it, and I began playing it when I was 14.Īdvertise with New Jersey Stage for $50-$100 per month, click here for info And I never got around to taking up the guitar until a lot of years later when one of my guitar-playing uncles came back from the service in Germany in 1960 and brought back a guitar which I ended up procuring. So I grew up with that type of music around me and I wanted to do what they did, but my father said, “No, I played accordion and your grandfather played accordion - you need to play accordion.” So I took accordion lessons for about a year when I was about eight years old until I convinced my parents that I wasn’t interested and they let me quit. In fact, I was coerced into taking accordion lessons when I was eight years old, which I did not want to do, because many of my aunts and uncles - my father’s brothers and sisters - played guitar and sang country and western music in the ’50s when I was a youngster. My grandfather played accordion for fun and my father played a little bit of accordion for fun. Spotlight Central: Did you grow up in a musical family?įrank Jeckell: Yes - not a professional musical family, but an amateur musical family. Spotlight Central recently caught up with Jeckell and asked him about his formative years, the origins of the 1910 Fruitgum Company, the group’s rise to fame, his early days touring on the road, and what he and the band have planned for the near future. By 1967, the group had signed with Buddah Records, a label which released five of their LPs and a variety of singles which became Top 40 hits including “1, 2, 3 Red Light,” “Goody Goody Gumdrops,” and “Simon Says.” Retrieved 26 December 2018.The 1910 Fruitgum Company was founded in 1965 in Linden, NJ by guitarist Frank Jeckell. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada".^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, March 16, 1968.^ a b " The Irish Charts – – Simon Says".^ Nynna en sång at Swedish Media Database.With lyrics by Uno Asplund, Flamingokvintetten recorded the song in Swedish as "Nynna en sång", and released it as a single in 1968, with "Hon är 16 år i dag" ( Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen as B-side). Also in 1968 it was covered by the Greek group The Idols with lyrics by Nikos Mastorakis, becoming their most successful song. Children's entertainers Sharon, Lois & Bram covered it on their 1995 album Let's Dance!'. In 1968 French singer Claude François also had a major hit with it under the French title "Jacques a Dit". In Italy the song was covered by the group Giuliano e i Notturni with the title "Il ballo di Simone", and charted #3 on the Italian hit parade. It also was the title track on the first album by the 1910 Fruitgum Company. It was also a hit in the UK, where it reached #2 on the singles chart. Hot 100 in January 1968, rising to #4 on the chart.
Produced by Jerry Kasenetz, Jeffry Katz, and Chiprut, the single was issued by Buddah Records and entered the U.S. The song was based on the children's game " Simon Says". " Simon Says" is a bubblegum pop song written by Elliot Chiprut and originally recorded in 1967 by the 1910 Fruitgum Company, becoming their most successful chart hit. Jeffry Katz, Jerry Kasenetz, Elliot Chiprut 1967 single by 1910 Fruitgum Company "Simon Says"
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