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The Teen Beats were a four-piece instrumental guitar group from Montréal featuring Louis Hebert on lead guitar, Stan Gornicki on rhythm guitar, Del Nobile on bass guitar and Frank Morahan on drums. Their only album, Guitar Boogie, was released by London Records of Canada in 1964.
The album captures the instrumental guitar music circulating among young Canadian bands in the early 1960s, with material drawn from Chet Atkins, Arthur Smith, The Fireballs, The String-A-Longs and The Islanders. The Shadows were an especially strong influence: ‘1861’, ‘Perfidia’ and ‘South of the Border’ had all appeared together on their 1962 album Out of the Shadows.
‘Guitar Boogie’ was later revived on the Early Canadian Rockers series.
-Robert Williston
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Guitar Boogie
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Credits
Musicians
Louis Hébert: lead guitar
Stan Gornicki: rhythm guitar
Del Nobile: bass guitar
Frank Morahan: drums
Songwriting
‘The Spur’ written by Norman Petty
‘Take a Minute’ written by Jimmy Torres
‘Guitar Boogie’ written by Arthur Smith
‘Enchanted Sea’ written by Frank Metis, Randy Starr
‘Trambone’ written by Chet Atkins
‘1861’ written by Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, and Brian Bennett
‘Perfidia’ written by Alberto Domínguez
‘Flaming Guitar’ written by Eileen Davies
‘Blue Moon’ written byRichard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
‘South of the Border’ written by Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr
Release
Canada
Vinyl LP, mono
Made in Canada
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