TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.   GARAGE BANDS… WHY?

(What a garage band is, and why they’re so important in keeping rock from losing its roll)

2.   THE SOUTH FLORIDA BAND SCENE, 1964-70

(Where it all began, and how it all ended.  Words to live by.  Words to learn by!)

3.   THE SOUTH FLORIDA BAND SCENE, 1964-70, SINGLES DISCOGRAPHY

4.   UNISSUED FLORIDA DEMOS

(Obscure sounds that have never been unearthed… until now!)

5.   SOUTH FLORIDA ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY

(Including complete track listings)

6.   RELATED SOUTH FLORIDA RELEASES

(Discography and background information.  Includes lots of surprises!)

7.   SOUTH FLORIDA ‘60s ARTISTS ON COMPILATION ALBUMS

8.   PHASES AND STAGES

(Local ‘60s veterans reveal the identity of the local bands that made their guitars weep.  Who influenced whom, in an everlasting rock ‘n roll teenage kiss.)

9.   BANDS IN SOUTH FLORIDA

(Chronological listings, including personnel)

10.   CAN’T YOU BELIEVE IN FOREVER?

(Band reunions beyond the 1980s, including complete coverage of the Legends reunion and unreleased album.)

11.   NO PLACE OR TIME

(Answering those puzzling questions about the South Florida scene.  Who were Miami’s first skinheads?  When are the Shaggs not the Shaggs?  Who always remembered the Alamo?  And what newscaster married what folk singer?)

12.   GARAGE BANDS THROUGHOUT FLORIDA

13.   FLORIDA GARAGE BAND DISCOGRAPHIES

(Listed by region – from St. Pete to the Panhandle.)

14.   FLORIDA ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY AND BEE JAY SAMPLER ALBUMS

15.   FLORIDA ‘60s ARTISTS ON COMPILATION ALBUMS

17.   THE SOUTH FLORIDA SOUL SCENE

(A narrative that gets down to the real nitty gritty.  Post R & B.  Pre K.C.)

18.   THE SOUTH FLORIDA SOUL SCENE, SINGLES DISCOGRAPHY

19.  1960s SOUTH FLORIDA SOUL LPs

20.   SOUL IN OTHER PARTS OF FLORIDA

(Narrative and discography.)

21.   SOUL MUSIC ON THE RADIO

22.   TOP 40 RADIO RESPONSE TO FLORIDA SOUL 45s

(Including peak position on local and national charts and month of peak popularity.)

23.   SOULFUL BITS AND PIECES

(Who Little Esther’s cousin is.   How Little Beaver got his nickname.  And how a jailed mayor gave a legendary duo their big break.)

24.   SOUTH FLORIDA COUNTRY (or, DON’T KNOCK THE TWANG, GANG)

(Includes a selective 1960s country discography.)

25.   SOUTH FLORIDA ROCKABILLY DISCOGRAPHY

(Gimme a break.  A guitar break!)

27.   HOW TO IDENTIFY A SOUTH FLORIDA RECORD

(Guidelines for record collectors)

28.   MARLIN RECORDS:  A HISTORY

(Oh, Henry… hearts of Stone will never break)

29.   LOCAL LABEL DISCOGRAPHIES (‘50s AND ‘60s)

(Everything from rockabilly to R & B.)

30.   DEAD WAX MARKINGS

(A fascinating area that’s never been explored in detail before.  How SK4M, SON, and ZTSB hold the secrets to the record industry’s untold stories!)

31.   COVER ME!

(Remakes or updates of songs first recorded by Florida acts.)

32.   DON’T TOUCH THAT DIAL!

(As we begin in-depth coverage of local Top 40 radio, up and down the dial.  Don’t you wish everyone did?)

33.   FOR WHOM THE TIGER ROARED

(Radio contests and promotions in the 1960s.  Aah, those jingles.  Dee Jay Derby rules!)

34.   1960s DISC JOCKEY SCHEDULES

35.   THE LIVERPOOL LOUDMOUTH

(The side of Morton Downey, Jr., nobody knows.  The ex-WFUN dee jay’s stormy seven months in Miami radio, including the real story behind those H.M. Subjects censor beeps… and how they helped end Downey’s Top 40 radio career!)

36.   SOUTH FLORIDA RADIO RESPONSE TO LOCAL 45s, 1964-1970

37.   RADIO IN OTHER PARTS OF FLORIDA

38.   FROM CHORDS… TO DISCORD

39.   LIFE IN THE BLOODSTREAM

(An editorial on the effects of drug abuse and other external factors on the garage band scene.)

40.   SO MUCH FOR THE ‘70s

(America slept for a decade.)

41.   THE ‘80s:  A RETURN TO CLUBLAND?

42.   30 FROM THE ‘80s

(Some of the best local garage records/cassettes of the 1980s)

43.   OVERCOMING THE PREVAILING RIDICULOUSNESS

(Where do we go from here?  A closing editorial.)

44.   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, ADDENDUM, AND A PAT ON THE BACK TO ROCK ‘N ROLL