Pornstache alert.

American Breed was at first glance your garden-variety one-hit wonder from 1966-68 out of Chicago that didn't have as much juice as the Buckinghams or Shadows of Night. But the video for that one hit, Bend Me Shape Me, shows that there's more to them than that. Besides featuring perhaps the only drummer/trumpet player combination in rock history, it boasts perhaps the best pornstache ever. Check out the bass player. You can just hear the theme from Hot Potato while looking at him.



As one-hit wonders are wont to do, American Breed kinda crumbled soon after its 15 minutes. Out of the wreckage, the band, led by the bass player, became something much different: Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan (ChakaKahnChakaKahn). But it also was a one-hit wonder.



The bass player in the video...not sure if it's the same dude, but whoever it is is stache-less. What I do know is that Oscar Gamble had to have seen this video at some point.

Oh, and a postscript from my debut post. Remember this Bloom County moment, before Steve Dallas caved before Congress and changed the name to Billy and the Boingers?



How different things might have been if Steve had gone with Opus' "kick-butt" suggestion: The Osmonds.