The Shondels

An initial incarnation of the Ides of March operated under the name the Shondels when they issued a lone single in 1965. The release paired “Like It or Lump It” with “No Two Ways About It” and had no relation to the better-known Shondells—spelled with two l’s—that supported Tommy James. The A-side offered straightforward Kinks-style garage rock, while the B-side, credited to Jim Peterik and Larry Millas like its counterpart, emerged as a subdued rock-a-ballad suspended between doo-wop and British Invasion conventions. Only 200 copies were pressed on the group’s own Epitome label, and they were sold for a dollar at the band’s concerts. By the time a second single appeared in early 1966, the act had adopted the Ides of March name. Both tracks later resurfaced on Ideology, the Sundazed anthology documenting Ides of March recordings made between 1965 and 1968.