Members: Herbert Kliebe, James Mills, Norman Bailey, Robert Smith
Active: 1950s - 1960s Formed 1957 in California
Bailey's Nervous Kats was one of numerous fairly anonymous combos throughout the United States playing hard-charging, basic rock & roll at the tail end of the '50s and the early '60s. That period is commonly, and erroneously, assumed to have been an era in which little such music was being made and recorded. Could it be, though, that part of the reason more such music was not more popular (on record at any rate) during this time was that it wasn't too imaginative? That could be the case with Bailey's Nervous Kats, formed in 1957 in the upper part of Northern California, in the vicinity of the small town of Redding. For the next few years, they enjoyed considerable popularity in the region as a live act, due in part to the absence of much competition at a time when rock & roll bands weren't nearly as commonplace as they would be in following decades.
Get Nervous! Bailey's Nervous Kats got to make a few singles in 1959-1961 for tiny labels; one of them, "Cobra," actually reached number one on KRDG in Redding, displacing the Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown." Usually, the band favored nervous-tempoed, elementary vocal and instrumental tunes with growly guitars.
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Active: 1950s - 1960s
Formed 1957 in California
Bailey's Nervous Kats was one of numerous fairly anonymous combos throughout the United States playing hard-charging, basic rock & roll at the tail end of the '50s and the early '60s. That period is commonly, and erroneously, assumed to have been an era in which little such music was being made and recorded. Could it be, though, that part of the reason more such music was not more popular (on record at any rate) during this time was that it wasn't too imaginative? That could be the case with Bailey's Nervous Kats, formed in 1957 in the upper part of Northern California, in the vicinity of the small town of Redding. For the next few years, they enjoyed considerable popularity in the region as a live act, due in part to the absence of much competition at a time when rock & roll bands weren't nearly as commonplace as they would be in following decades.
Get Nervous! Bailey's Nervous Kats got to make a few singles in 1959-1961 for tiny labels; one of them, "Cobra," actually reached number one on KRDG in Redding, displacing the Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown." Usually, the band favored nervous-tempoed, elementary vocal and instrumental tunes with growly guitars.
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