The Robbs...Race With The Wind
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Milwaukee's Beatles....The Robbs
I found the CD on Amazon, buy one, I recommend it.
RACE WITH THE WIND
Dee Robb
The ROBBS
You ask me girl if now I'm licked
Because I've been knocked down and kicked
You hope I'm beaten that I'd stop
But all it does is slow me up a little
But I ain't done yet, cause I'll die first
(chorus) Awwwwwww Race With The Wind
Awwwwwww Race With The Wind
It seems like I have never known
A morning I could call my own
A day when fate belonged to me
To command as I see fitting
That don't happen but it's fun to think of
(chorus) Awwwwwww Race With The Wind
Awwwwwww Race With The Wind
Your friends come on like movie stars
They laugh too loud and try too hard
In your hopped up mind you feel
This twisted masquerade is real
(chorus) Awwwwwww
Awwwwwww
The riot squad breaks down the wall
The lights go on you look at all
The faces of your friends have changed
But I'm just walking down this country highway
Down a dusty lovely evening
(chorus) Awwwwwww Race With The Wind
Awwwwwww Race With The Wind
Awwwwwww Race With The Wind
Milwaukee forever!!! WOKY the music giant 1967, right there with the summer of love.
I'm from Milwaukee and too young to remember The Robbs. I have an older brother that was in a band of his own. He knew the Robbs, and spoke about their music often. This video/song is the first time I have heard them. Can't understand why they never made it. Great song and band.
R.I.P Dee
I was in a battle of the bands at the Holiday Ballroom in Chicago in '66. The Robbs performed this song and blew the roof off. I feel like the guy below, don't see how this band didn't make it big. They were awesome.
Loved this song back in the day and still do. Great band.
You know a song is memorable when it was easly recognized the first time i heard it in over 45 years. A true gem from that golden summer of 1966,thank you so much for taking me back.
I've always loved this song!
For a group that never made it nationally, you wonder why this song wasn't a Top 40 hit! So unjust!
I remember seeing this band in Hammond Indiana and remember that the drummer was just great...love the lyrics and cadence of this...this is a Chicago 60s classic. Gotta email this to old friends from those days
hey Dee , I just came to say hi..... miss ya man i think of you everyday. Thanks for everything you did for me. You will always be a father figure to me and your one of my hero's and a man I aspire to be. see ya in about 30 years. Oh and if Bruce and Joe ever check this miss yo guys too
Great memories
@68enxy I am glad someone else remembers seeing them at the "Cow Palace" at the Fond du Lac County Fairgrounds. That was so long ago,but yet a great memory. thanks for sharing! Mike.
I remember this on either WLS or WCFL when I was young--what a great song, with thoughtful lyrics, jangly 12-string, and three-part harmony on the chorus that lures you in! In a word--memorable!
.....what a great song, June of 1966 is when I first heard it, always stayed with me all these years
Thanks for this one, they changed their name to Cherokee in the end of 60' . My favorite is : "Girl I've got news for you" a really smash hit !! Play it loud guys !
Nice Posting retrod1. The Robbs put on a great show back in the early 70's. I saw them in Fond du Lac, WI. They always had fun performing and the crowd loved them!
Published on Mar 16, 2015
The Robbs were an American 1960s pop/rock band from Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. They are best known for being the house band on Dick Clark's mid-1960s show Where The Action Is. They are also known for placing the most singles on Billboard magazine's "Bubbling Under" chart (five as The Robbs, plus a final single as Cherokee) without ever once crossing over into the Billboard Hot 100.Formation and early years (1960s)
The Robbs were a band of brothers starting with David Donaldson (Dee Robb - lead vocals and guitar), Robert Donaldson (Bruce Robb - guitar and vocals), and George Donaldson (Joe Robb - keyboards), along with the unrelated family friend Craig Krampf (Craig Robb - drums). The band was founded in the early 1960s without Krampf, and recorded as Dee Robb, Robby & the Robins, and Dee Robb & the Robins before settling on The Robbs and hiring Krampf in 1965.
Musically, the Robbs were noted for their use of harmony vocals, and instrumentation that was inspired by folk-rock, bubblegum music, and jangle pop.[citation needed]
Spotted by Dick Clark, the band was signed to Mercury Records in 1966, and moved to California to appear as regular performers on Where The Action Is during late 1966 and early 1967, replacing Paul Revere and the Raiders.
The band recorded with some regional success between 1966 and 1970, at first for Mercury and subsequently for a variety of record labels. Almost all of their singles charted on radio stations in and around Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As well, their 1966 single "Race With The Wind" was a substantial hit in Chicago, and several other singles were breakout successes in smaller markets such as Honolulu, Hawaii and Columbus, Ohio. An early single was co-written and produced by the team of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri, who had earlier written a hit single for the (then) strictly studio-concocted band The Grass Roots. Sloan and Barri reportedly offered The Robbs a chance to step in and actually become The Grass Roots for both touring purposes and for future singles, but the group turned the offer down.[
Couldn't of said it better myself
Evidently my dad, Dennis Smith, was a drummer with Dee and his Starliners back in the early 1960s. Anyone remember them? I found an article mentioning them in Billboard magazine from April 28, 1962.
Same thing happened to me! I had the 45 when I was 5 years old in a pile of records my Dad gave me. I loved this song and the record was lost a few years later. This song would pop into my head and I never could remember the name of the group until I looked it up a few years ago, Managed to find a 45 of the song and burned it to disc.
I watched The Robbs at Teensville, in Thiensville. Great Fun.
I agree. A great band and song. I wish I
could have seen them perform.
cyo dances Milwaukee late 60's . great times
WE SURE LIVED IN A GREAT TIME. THE KIDS TODAY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A CYO DANCE LET A LONE A LIVE BAND AT ALL OF THEM. THEY WERE GREAT FUN AND A PLACE TO BE WITH FRIENDS AND TO MEET OTHER KIDS FOR OTHER SCHOOLS. THEY WOULD NEVER ALLOW ANYTHING LIKE THAT AND THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COULD NEVER AFFORD THE COST OF THE BANDS PRICES TODAY. IT WAS TRULY A GREAT TIME.. WE WERE VERY LUCKY..
I am from Oconomowoc, Wis I knew them although I was quit younger then them, but still got in to see them. Awesome Guys so sweet always wondered what happened to them Now I'm living in California way to funny! God Bless you Guys Love to you all!
This is wonderful...Thanks for posting it on U-Tube. Craig (Krampf) Robb is still such a great drummer!
How was "Bittersweet" not a hit??
I saw these guys @ Washington park in MIlwaukee with a bunch of other groups in 1969.
They made some really good music.
They came to play alot at Oconomowoc High School . Also came for battle of the bands against the band call the Henchman
Back in 2008 you could find just about any CD on Amazon. I would bet 15 years later the Robbs CD is now as rare as the original LP from the 60s.
2 of my friends & I were Robb band groupies. Followed them around when on tour in Wisconsin. Great bunch of guys. The great dane, Lokie, was neat two. Sad to hear about Dee passing
I agree with all these comments. Listen to their fabulous harmonies--vocal and instrumental.
Loved them good times
Was at work the other day ( driving job) just thinking of old tunes back in the day and just thought of this one. Didn't even knew they were from WI.
What a great song! Thank you for posting it.
Saw these guys in Hospital Corps. school Gr.Lakes in early 66.. That's the last time I've thought about them .. I recall thinking they looked just like the "Byrds" back then...
When I hear this it's summer and I'm 16 again!
I remember when this song first came out. The band I was in performed it at dances. I still like it.
@mikeletz I also saw them in Fond du Lac, at the "Cow Palace"
I'm not sure about the name change? I think they stopped recording and decided to get into production. They opened a recording studio called Cherokee in Hollywood. I believe the company is still going strong.
Rate a Record on Dick Clark's New American Bandstand 1966" on June 18, 1966.
If the label on this record said, by the "Beatles" it would have been #1 for weeks!
Dee died of Cancer, John- I'm guessing that it was in 2007 (since I think it was about a year after I moved back from L.A.) He had had a major bout with this previously.
Dee RIP
GREAT SONG IN MY JUNIOR YEAR HEARD MANY FRIDAY NIGHTS AT THE ARMORY
R.I.P Dee. You will be missed.
Me Too!
I just found out that Dee passed away,from your comment.Do you happen to know when
and what from? Thank You.
Edklex, Listen about 20 times again (and again and again...) Forget about your "hipster talk" notion, it is KNOCKED down and kicked. This is not only the logical lyric, it is also what is actually sung. But if you want to hear "like" and be a "hipster" go ahead -- it remains a great song by a great group.
This album is impossible to find
SLOW ME UP A LITTLE BUT IM NOT DONE YET WHAT A GREAT SONG LIKE THE TUNE SOUND BEATS
What Milwaukee high school did you go to?