Saturday, August 14, 2010

The Nobles, Abilene

I had really hoped I would be able to get a good piece on Abilene's teen kings the Continentals up at the Stomp in honor of next weekend's Key City happenings... I just didn't get to it. It WILL happen... but for now swing to this early 60s Abilene town stomp...


THE NOBLES - Black Widow (Selbon 1.005)

Aaah... a long sought after disc finally makes it to Rancho Westex. Not particularly rare, but it is fairly great. 1963 or 1964 perhaps? I know nothing more... perhaps they went on to become the Noblemen?

I've made mention of this before... but this coming Saturday... August 21... Garage Band Woodstock is on tap.
The Livin' End (cut the INCREDIBLE "Pine Street Boys"), the Continentals ("I'm Gone"), the Chevelle V ("Come Back Bird") and others will be getting together for a reunion. I really wish I could be there and have even gotten three different "heads up" emails from the Continentals camp, but sadly it isn't meant to be... ol' Westex returns to the classroom for another year of teaching on the following Monday and will be needing the weekend to get ready for a new batch of 8th graders. Aaaaargh!!!!

2 comments:

Larry said...

The Nobles was a band of airmen stationed at Dyess Air Force Base.(Abilene, Texas) I saw them perform a couple of times at Wally's Skate Bowl in Abilene. Their record..Black Widow got some regional play across Texas. I don't remember the exact year but it was before 1960.

WESTEX said...

Thanks for the information Larry. Muchly appreciated.