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The Beagles

The Beatles, 1964, from left: Bill Suddith, Lonnie McLane, Russ Jordan, Wayne DeWitt and Donnie Turner

Beagles Empires 45 All I Need Is YouThe Beagles “All I Need Is You” is a crude garage number very reminiscent at times of “Can’t Buy Me Love”. There are a couple good shouts and a decent guitar break. It’s backed by the goofy “Him and Her”, a song about the two dogs at the White House getting in LBJ’s way.

The band was from Lynchburg, Virginia, with song writing by John William Suddith and Wayne DeWitt, published with Gary Simpson who owned the Beagles name (thanks to Mop Top Mike for the info).

The band members were:

Bill Suddith – lead guitar and vocals
Lonnie McLane – guitar and lead vocals
Russ Jordan – bass and vocals
Wayne DeWitt – sax and vocals
Donald Turner – drums

Released on the Empire label in the spring of 1964, this 45 was pressed at the Southern Plastics plant in Nashville, using Nashville Matrix to master and plate.

No relation to the Beagles cartoon which had some great tracks like “I Feel Like Humpty Dumpty”.