Two decades before MTV and music videos, ABC television carried a weekly musical show for all the hip kids who could talk their parents into watching something in black and white in what was turning into a color television world. Shindig had a Top 40 DJ as the host, a dancer named Terri Garr, and a house band that at one time or another included Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, and Delany Bramlett. The Shindogs were definitely a made for TV band, yet they leave us one great song that is very LA and even got played on the radio. From 1965, The Shindogs and Who Do You Think You Are…
The Shindogs were the house band on the ABC musical variety TV show Shindig! (1964). The band consisted of several legendary blues and rock n’ roll musician/songwriters from the American South. Members were James Burton, Delaney Bramlett, Glen D. Hardin, Chuck Blackwell, and Joey Cooper.
Shindig! was an American musical variety series which aired on ABC from September 16, 1964 to January 8, 1966. The show was hosted by Jimmy O’Neill, a disc jockey in Los Angeles, who also created the show along with his wife Sharon Sheeley, British producer Jack Good, and production executive Art Stolnitz. Shindig! focused on a broader variety of popular music than its predecessor and first aired for a half-hour every Wednesday evening, but was expanded to an hour in January 1965.
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