Kip Tyler & The Flips
Let's Monkey Around / Vagabond Mama
Kip Tyler & The Flips - Let's Monkey Around / Vagabond Mama
Starla Records - S2 (1957)
Side A
Let's Monkey Around
Side B
Vagabond Mama
Personnel Include:
Kip Tyler - vocal, composer
Steve Douglas - saxophone
Mike Deasy - guitar
Larry Knechtel - piano
Mike Bermani - drums
Notes:
Recorded sometime in late August or early September of 1957 in Hollywood, CA., Kip Tyler And The Flips recorded "Let's Monkey Around" and "Vagabond Mama". The double sided single was released on Art Laboe's short lived Starla Records as the label's second release.
Kip Tyler was a rock and roll bongo player who started out as the lead singer of the Sleepwalkers, Union High School's most hard core rock band. His first real success was as the recorded incarnation of the Jimmy Daley character from the movies "Rock, Pretty Baby" and "Summer Love". He and the Flips recorded a lot of songs in the late fifties and had a string of hit songs which included "Bongo Rock", "Jungle Hop", "She's My Witch" and "Let's Monkey Around". Future "Flips" would include Steve Douglas, Don Randi, Bruce Johnston, Sandy Nelson, Jim Horn, Dave Shostal, Elliot Franks, and Lee Myers. The Flips disbanded in 1959 and Kip attempted a solo career that eventually failed in the 1960s.
In September 1957, Kip and the Flips joined Earl McDaniel's Big Rock 'n' Roll Show at the United Artist Theater as the only white band on the bill which featured LaVerne Baker, Richard Berry, The Pharaohs, Young Jessie, The Hawkeyes, Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers and The Eddie Beal All Star Band. Disc jockey Art Laboe booked them into the El Monte Legion Stadium rock shows he organized and seeing their potential, took them into his studio to record for his Starla Records label.
Though they lasted barely three years, rock 'n' roll and rockabilly historians agree that Kip Tyler & The Flips were THE most important Los Angeles band of the late 1950s. They set the mark and style for all other southern California bands that would soon follow.
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Wail Man Wail / Nothing But Tough / Hello Mr. Dee-Jay
Challenge Records - [unreleased] (1957)
Tracks Recorded
1. Wail Man Wail
2. Nothing But Tough
3. Hello Mr. Dee-Jay
Personnel Include:
Kip Tyler - vocal, composer
Steve Douglas - saxophone
Mike Deasy - guitar
Larry Knechtel - piano
Mike Bermani - drums
Notes:
Recorded December, 1957 at Gold Star Studios, Hollywood, CA. These tracks were never released as singles or on any album until Germany's Bear Family compilation "Rock And Roll Cannibals" in 1987. They have been on many other CD compilation releases since.
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Jungle Hop / Ooh Yeah Baby
Challenge Records 59008 (April 1958)
Side A
1. Jungle Hop
Side B
1. Ooh Yeah Baby
Personnel Include:
Kip Tyler - vocal, composer
Steve Douglas - saxophone
Mike Deasy - guitar
Larry Knechtel - piano
Mike Bermani - drums
Notes:
Recorded March 28, 1958 at Gold Star Studios, Hollywood, CA. Released April '58.
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She's My Witch / Rumble Rock
Ebb Records 154 (Jan. 1959)
Side One
A. She's My Witch
Side Two
B. Rumble Rock
Personnel Include:
Kip Tyler - vocal, composer
Jim Horn - saxophone
Mike Deasy - guitar
Dave Shostal - bass
Bruce Johnston - piano
Sandy Nelson - drums
Notes:
Recorded November, 1958 at Gold Star Studios, Hollywood, CA. Released January 1959.
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Oh Linda / Hali-Lou
Ebb Records 156 (1959)
Side One
A. Oh Linda
Side Two
B. Hali-Lou
Personnel Include:
Kip Tyler - vocal, composer
Jim Horn - saxophone
Mike Deasy - guitar
Dave Shostal - bass
Bruce Johnston - piano
Sandy Nelson - drums
Notes:
Recorded January, 1959 at Gold Star Studios, Hollywood, CA.
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