The Excels...Let's Dance...Texas Garage Rock T-Shaker Orig Gibson 45 rpm 1965

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This is Danny Goode and The Excels...Let's Dance...Gibson Records 210  45 rpm  1965

Side two: Walking The Dog

Texas Garage Rock

Reflection of photographer shows up a little bit on vinyl in the pics....

Labels: VG+++ to NM very faint light dirt ring and wear...Labels Reversed

Vinyl: VG+++ to NM very few fine hairline scratches....New Gloss!....Plays and sounds great!

Original Gibson Records, McKinney, Texas....

The fifth pic, (newly added) I found this sleeve with a Gibson's 1960's store sticker, wasn't originally with this record. Just thought it would be fun to put it with this original rare Gibson 45.....

 In 1963 the Beach Boys were at the top of the charts with "Surfin’ USA", Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs were right there with "Sugar Shack", and the Beatles, along with the British Invasion, were still a thing of the future. But in McKinney "Let’s Dance", by the Excels, was the talk of the town. A petition was circulated around McKinney High School and at North Texas State University and sent to KLIF in Dallas, at the time the number-one rock n’ roll radio station in the country, to play the record. The DJs agreed and said it was a great song, but politics prevailed, and because it didn’t have a BMI clearance they couldn’t play it. However, other radio stations did play it and "Let’s Dance", written by Danny Goode, went on to become a world-famous record by word-of-mouth publicity and on its own merits, and would 43 years later get four McKinney boys inducted into the Rock-A-Billy Hall of Fame.

The Excels began as four McKinney High School kids who loved to play music and would get together periodically for practice sessions at the home of Gibson ‘Gib’ Harris. Gib, on drums, along with Danny Goode, lead singer and bass player, and Roger Bennett, lead guitar, were juniors at MHS, while Danny’s brother, James, a student at North Texas State in Denton, joined in on rhythm guitar and backup vocals. James also worked at Gibson’s Discount Center in McKinney, where the band’s first paying gig came about for an employee’s Christmas party at the store. The event was such an astounding success that the manager of the store suggested that the boys record "Let’s Dance" and even created a record company to produce it; thus Gibson Records came into being. The band’s first promotional tours consisted of playing on flatbed trailers in parking lots of Gibson’s stores around the North Texas area.