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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. A former St. Thomas Aquinas student later remembered listening outside the Teen Beats' practice room after school and seeing the group perform at Friday and Saturday dances.
‘Guitar Boogie’ was later revived on the Early Canadian Rockers series.
-Robert Williston
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Musicians
Louis Hébert, lead guitar
Stan Gornicki, rhythm guitar
Del Nobile, bass guitar
Frank Morahan, drums
Songwriting
‘The Spur’ Norman Petty
‘Take a Minute’ Jimmy Torres
‘Guitar Boogie’ Arthur Smith
‘Enchanted Sea’ Frank Metis, Randy Starr
‘Trambone’ Chet Atkins
‘1861’ Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Brian Bennett
‘Perfidia’ Alberto Domínguez
‘Flaming Guitar’ Eileen Davies
‘Blue Moon’ Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
‘South of the Border’ Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr
Release
London EB. 83
1964
Canada
Vinyl LP, mono
Made in Canada
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