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The Chevels on Gass: Pat & Lolly Vegas

Chevels Gass 45 HendersonvilleThe Chevels released only one single that I know of, but it’s a double-sided instrumental winner. It’s not an unknown single, but it is one of many featuring Pat and Lolly Vegas, who deserve a full singles discography of their own.

Lolly Vegas wrote “Hendersonville”, a fine guitar workout on blues changes. It’s difficult to know which Hendersonville the title refers to, the suburb of Nashville along the Cumberland River is a possibility.

Chevels Gass 45 Hootenanny Ho-DownPat Vegas and E. Engber wrote “Hootenanny Ho-Down”. Engber is actually Elliot Ingber, who played rhythm guitar with the Gamblers of “Moon Dawg!” / “LSD-25” fame, joined the Mothers of Invention and played on Freak Out, started the Fraternity of Man, and joined Captain Beefheart on The Spotlight Kid, among many other credits.

Released on Gass GS-1001, the October 19, 1963 issue of Cash Box reviewed the single favorably, listing “Hootenanny Ho-Down” as the top side.

Production was by Gram – Fisher, possibly J. Fisher, but I haven’t come across these names before to my recollection.

The only other Gass single, by the Travelers, was produced by Leo Kulka, who would move to San Francisco and found Golden State Recorders in 1964.