No it's not a younger Bentley

It's John Fred (with His Playboy Band). I dunno if he named his band that to try to improve his chances of appearing on Playboy After Dark. But he did deliver one of the greats in the one-hit wonder pantheon, Judy in Disguise (With Glasses). It was catchy, infectuously repetitive, and it glommed onto the Beatles bandwagon, at least as well as someone from Louisiana could glom onto the Beatles. Here is the video, in honor of one of the three known viewers of this blog. Fred's shirt sure drives the "lemonade pie" lyric home, and the guy from Tempole Tudor apparently borrowed the pants for his TOTP rendition of Wunderbar.



Also, this video shows the phenomenon of the missing musician. It has the horn players, who were the usual suspects to be missing when a group back then mimed a song, but there's a guy holding a tambourine who presumably was the drummer. I assume the record company was an indy who couldn't pony up for a drum kit. And those string sounds apparently came from heaven itself.