The Changing Tymes - The Only Girl I Love (US Garage Rock August 1967)

The Changing Tymes were based out of their own Club Moss in Gate City, Virginia, located in the far western part of the state just across the state line from Kingsport, Tennessee. Four of the band were from Hiltons, VA, with another from Johnson City, TN.


Members were:


Buzzy Jones – lead vocals, guitar

Jimmy Harris – lead guitar, vocals

Lenny Gillenwater – organ

Allan McMurray – bass

Buddy Babb – drums, vocals


Changing Tymes Moss 45 The Only Girl I Love


The group released two seven-inch records on their own Moss label, featuring good original songs by the band. “The Only Girl I Love” (McMurray – Jones) / “Parody of a Love” (McMurray, Gillenwater) came out on Moss 000-001/002 in August 1967, followed by “


The Clinch Valley College in Wise, Virginia newspaper, the Highland Cavalier, profiled the group on November 1, 1967, for their upcoming show at the Cotillion Club Harvest Dance on November 4:

They were called NUTHIN then … after a while they figured The Changing Tymes fit better’n anything else.

Last New Year’s Eve … the Changing Tymes opened a place of their own and they called it Club Moss …

Every Saturday night since, Moss has been open from 8:30 – 11:30 … Sometimes the crowds have been huge with hardly room to dance, and at other times there wasn’t more than 50, but the music goes on and the quality is good … the best sound around. “Big Daddy Harris” and “General Jones” are always around somewhere in the shadows, but they never give the feeling that they’re watching for you to do something wrong.


In August the Changing Tymes went to Nashville for their first recording session. Allan McMurray, Bass player had written some words for which Buzzy Jones and Lenny Gillenwater had written some music … they called the two songs “Parody of a Love” and “The Only Girl I Love”, sung by Buddy Babb, drummer, and Buzzy Jones.

… Last week “Parody of a Love” made the “Top Forty” at WNVA …

… four of them are from Hilton, Virginia: Buzzy (Rhea Wilbur Jones, Jr.), Larry (Larry Wayne Gillenwater), Jimmy (James Oscar Harris, Jr.), and Alan (Alan Rhea McMurray).

Buddy (James Howard Babb, Jr.) lives at Weber City, but during school he lives in Johnson City while studying at East Tennessee State University.

According to the article, Jimmy Harris was the youngest of the group, a junior at Gate City High School. Larry Gillenwater attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute (now Viginia Tech), while Alan McMurray and Buzzy Jones were at Clinch Valley College.


Discography


Singles & EPs


The Only Girl I Love / Parody of a Love (1967)

Go Your Way / She Laughed at Me (1967)


V/A Compilation


Mayhem & Psychosis Vol 1 (1998)

Mayhem & Psychosis Vol. 2 (1998)

The Lost Generation (1998)

Aliens, Psychos & Wild Things Vol. 2 (2001)

Aliens, Psychos & Wild Things Vol. 3 (2003)

Sigh Cry Die: 29 Tales of Woe and Despair (2004)

Mayhem & Psychosis (2009)

100 '60s Garage Rock Hits (2010)

Garage Rock Hits (2011)


The Only Girl I Love / Parody of a Love (1967)

Tracklist

A. The Only Girl I Love

Written-By – McMurray, Jones

B. Parody Of A Love

Written-By – McMurray, Gillenwater


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