The Birdwatchers

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The Birdwatchers were a garage rock pop band active in the 1960's in the Miami area. The band dabbled with an Everly Brothers sound in their early career (1964), even releasing a version of "Wake Up Little Susie" on Tara, a local Florida label.

The band hit their stride beginning in 1966 with a clutch of garage-pop 45s released on the Mala label (some were also locally released on the Scott label). These featured the powerful, charismatic vocals of Sammy Hall, better than average production and high-quality songcraft.

Unfortunately, despite national TV exposure on teen shows such as Hullabaloo, the most the band ever made it on the charts was #125 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Charts in September 1966 with "I'm Gonna Love you Anyway." As evidence of their local popularity another of their records ("Girl I Got News for You") made Billboard's Regional Breakout Charts for Miami peaking at #3 locally in April 1966.

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