Here are photos of a 1965 WPGC show featuring the Cobras, a group that is unknown to me. They have a great look, and I’d love to know who they were and if they recorded.

It’s interesting to see Link Wray at the show, along with Bob Rubino, who was recording his single “A Rose and a Baby Ruth” / “Lonely Boy” at Link’s studio in Accokeek about this time.

Link would record a number of teen groups in 1966 for his Gray Ant label and the Vermillion label, including:

The Dead Beats -“She Don’t Love Me” (Rick Maske) / “I’m Sure” (Bob Coleman)
The Hard Times – “I Can’t Wait Till Friday Comes” / “(Old Wine) New Bottles”
The Suburbans – “The Love That I Had” (Roby, Murphy) / “Talk to Me” (Murphy)

I haven’t found any mention of the Cobras in connection to Link.

WPGC DJ Dean Griffith is represented. Dean Griffith was a house name at the station, and this was one of four people that had that moniker – anyone know his real name?

I’m not sure the venue, maybe a gymnasium in the Washington, DC area, or perhaps the DC Armory which did host some shows during these years.

I could not find a newspaper listing for a show with the Cobras, but the Daily Times of Salisbury, Maryland announced a teen dance on April 17, 1965 at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center, sponsored by Pocomoke High School and Pocomoke City station WDMV.

Joey Reynolds of WKDW, Buffalo, NY acted as host. The bands were the British Walkers, Link Wray and the Wraymen “with Rob Rudino, guitarist, and a local group called the Astro-Tones”.

The Astro-Tones also played a dance at the Boggs-Disharoon American Legion in Berlin, MD on April 3.