The Goldebriars

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The Goldebriars
Origin Flag of the United States USA
Genre(s) Folk rock, sunshine pop
Years active 1964-1965
Label(s) Epic Records
Website goldebriars.com
Members
Sheri Holmberg
Dotti Holmberg
Curt Boettcher
Ron Neilson
Ron Edgar

The Goldebriars were an early-60s folk quartet which is most notable for including a young Curt Boettcher as a guitarist and vocalist. The group also included two sisters, Dotti and Sheri Holmberg, and Ron Neilson, lead guitarist and banjo player. They recorded two very obscure albums for Epic Records in 1964 before adding drummer Ron Edgar to their lineup, who would later be a part of the groups The Music Machine and The Millennium. They recorded a third album in late 1964, in what has been described as a prototypical folk-rock vein. A single from this proposed album, June Bride Baby b/w I'm Gonna Marry You was released in early 1965, but the group broke up afterwards and the album remains unreleased.

Curt Boettcher would go on a successful stint as a producer, songwriter and musician, eventually putting together the highly-regarded late-60s group The Millennium (which also featured Ron Edgar). Nothing has been heard from the others, except for Dotti Holmberg, when Sundazed Records surprisingly released an album of demos that she recorded in the mid-60s called Sometimes Happy Times, including one demo that had ended up on the Magic Time anthology and a demo of a song (I Sing My Song) that would later be included on the second Sagittarius album. She also maintains a website dedicated to the group[1] and has published an eBook about the group titled "Whatever Happened to Jezebel?".

[edit] Discography

  • "Your Special Introduction to the Goldebriars" (7" EP)
  • "Pretty Girls and Rolling Stones" (Boettcher/Neilson) b/w "Shenandoah" (trad. arr.) Epic 9673 (7" single)
  • "The Goldebriars" (album, Epic LN 26087)
  • "Straight Ahead!" (album, Epic BN 26114 (stereo), LN 26114 (mono))
  • "Castle on the Corner" (Goldstein) b/w "I've Got to Love Somebody" (trad. arr.) (Epic 9719 (single))
  • "June Bride Baby" (Goldsteinn/Ross) b/w "I'm Gonna Marry You" (Goldsteinn) (Epic 9806 (single))
  • "Climbing Stars" (CD album of unreleased material released September 20, 2006, Sony Music Direct, Japan)

Sony Music Direct in Japan released 2 CDs of the Goldebriars' original albums on March 24, 2006 titled: "The Goldebriars" and "Straight Ahead!"

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.goldebriars.com/ - The Goldebriars official site

[edit] External links

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