Well before MTV came up with The Basement Tapes as a means of locating unsigned bands, Dick Clark tried out a similar contest on ABC's Happening '68, hosted by Paul Revere & Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & The Raiders.
The contest winners in the summer of '68, the Heart Beats, were an all-female quartet out of Lubbock, Texas, predating the likes of the Runaways, the Bangles, & Go-Go's by a few years. The Heart Beats remained a regional attraction in their home area for the next twenty or so years before hanging up their guitars & microphones. Here, the ladies perform a cover of the Outsiders' 1-hit wonder, "Time Won't Let Me":
I don't know if they even took a chance on the Basement Tapes.
Cool. My favorite cover of "Time Won't Let Me" is the 1997 version from ska band The Pietasters.
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I may just pull that sometime.
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