Music Explosion: Biography

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• Carter-Lewis
• The Kingsmen
• Equals
• The Nashville Teens
• Crazy Elephant
• Flying Machine
• Tommy Boyce

• 1910 Fruitgum Company
• Ohio Express

• John Carter
• Ken Lewis

Genres:

Oldies Music, 60s Music, Rock Music

Decades Active:

1960's

Artistic Quality

Low

Ratings Guide

One-hit-wonder Ohio garage band that reached number two in 1967 with "Little Bit O'Soul," a great gutsy pop/rock number with a classic bass-organ riff. Whatever personality they may have had was coated in the studio by producers Jeffrey Katz and Jerry Kasenetz, who would soon help create bubblegum with acts like the 1910 Fruitgum Co. and the Ohio Express. The Music Explosion didn't have nearly as juvenile a sound as those groups, but they never latched onto another piece of material nearly as attention grabbing as "Little Bit O'Soul," entering the Top 100 only once more with the tiny hit "Sunshine Games."

- Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide