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Part of the rollicking Detroit area scene, The Tidal Waves were the Dave Clark 5 members of the pantheon (though, like everything from Detroit, they kicked more ass than the Dave Clark 5): Poppy, chipper and well-dressed. While they later morphed into a more proto-punk band, these Tidal Waves are the Don and Dewey types (though they wrongly credit Terry Harris, rather than songwriter Don “Sugarcane” Harris).

Which isn’t to say that they don’t rock out “Farmer John,” with a twangy 1-4-5 and the whole gang yellin’ under a fairly sharp Kingsmen-esque sax. The song was a regional hit, climbing to #1 on the Detroit charts for Hanna-Barbera Records (yeah, the cartoon folks). Short, sassy bubblegum from the ’60s, and another sign of just how great Detroit was during that time.

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