Dave Lewis stereo David's Mood remaster from vinyl 2024

Dave Lewis David’s Mood
The early 60’s music of the Pacific Northwest wasn’t all primal Louie Louie for teen dances. There were jazzy little combos with names like The Mark 4 playing in restaurant/bar lounges, sometimes truck stops bars like theT&R in Corvallis, Oregon. The clientele were adults or smart teenagers who could sneak in. Groovy dance jazz with a lot of shuffle rhythms for crowd pleasing drinking. Dave Lewis’s trio was one such group who managed a rock crossover in the Seattle recorded David’s Mood in ’63. First as a regional single on Jergen, then picked up by A&M records. For their album they didn’t rerecord their little hit but left it mono and buried it in the Little Green Thing album which is otherwise recorded better and in stereo. Little Green Thing gives a better representation of what the trio was about. With the tasty playing of guitarist Joe Johansen and the tight drumming of Dickey Enfield, it is a great little gem of a record. Dave Lewis then pushed his luck probably with pressure from Alpert & Moss (A&M) and tried to go mainstream recording an absolutely horrible followup album. Such is life in the music industry and the weirdness of coming from the Northwest. David’s Mood is horribly covered by both The Kingsmen and ex Kingsmen, Jack Ely.
I will be posting more of the upgraded Little Green Thing album.