Biography
The peculiar backstory of the Chocolate Watchband includes multiple songs that appeared on the band's sophomore LP yet originated with entirely separate performers. Among those stand-ins were the Inmates, an outfit unrelated to the more prominent new wave group that adopted the same name during the late '70s and early '80s. In February 1966 the Inmates cut an uninspired version of Hank Ballard's 1960 hit "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go," though the performance stayed unreleased at the time. Producer Ed Cobb later retrieved the tape to fill space on the Chocolate Watchband's second album, The Inner Mystique, after overdubbing lead vocals by session singer Don Bennett. The original backing track finally surfaced on the 2005 Chocolate Watchband anthology Melts in Your Brain Not on Your Wrist: The Complete Recordings 1965 to 1967.
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