The Fantastic Baggys

Although packaged and promoted as a bona fide group, The Fantastic Baggys were actually an L.A. studio project by the duo of P.f. Sloan and Steve Barri. Sloan and Barri wrote many first-rate (and second-rate) pop-rock and folk-rock tunes in the mid-1960s, but were at this point, as evidenced by the name of the group, doing surf and hot rod material. The similarity of The Fantastic Baggys material to Jan And Dean in particular should come as no surprise, since Sloan and Barri not only wrote some songs for Jan And Dean, but also did some vocals on Jan And Dean records of the era.



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