http://youtu.be/Ug1AS3yyWtw That’s the pre-Partridge Family Hal Blaine [playing drums in the above clip]! I have no specific memory of playing Peggy Lipton’s album, which actually came out on Ode in 1968, shortly after MOD SQUAD took the country by storm, so I’ll have to dig it out sometime. Didn’t recall that she sang such buoyant …
Q: Re: the characters on THE MOD SQUAD, were they “Mods” in the scooter-riding, amphetamine-scarfing, madly-dancing, hopeless fashion victim, Pete Townshend-ian sense of the word? A: Well, virtually no one in The States knew a thing about British Mod until after The Who released QUADROPHENIA (in 1973, coincidentally the same year THE MOD SQUAD went off the air). Or perhaps even until The Jam’s …