Rock N Roll Bedtime Stories
Rock N Roll Bedtime Stories
Episode 139 - ZZ Top vs The Zombies
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A listener letter lets the guys in on an early rock n roll secret – one time, some Texas musicians pretended to be a British band that wasn’t around to defend themselves.

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SHOW NOTES:

Songs used in this episode: Moving Sidewalk- “99th Floor Tantara”; The Zombies – “This Will Be Our Years”

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-zombies-mn0000582313/biography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27s_Not_There

NBC Hullabaloo performance 1965: https://youtu.be/DitSyuse0bg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Kooper

https://www.caropop.com/post/colin-blunstone-and-the-bizarre-history-of-a-great-band-the-zombies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZ_Top

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/fake-zombies-zz-top/

Blake Lewis doing “Time of the Season”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN7hvU58fXM