One of Hours came from Lexington, Kentucky and released two singles on the local Chetwyd Records label.

The band members on their first single were:

Shawn Foreman – keyboards
David Flynn – guitar, vocals
Dave Bogliole – bass, vocals
Robert Nelson – drums
Carol Craig – vocals

The band has the very first release on Chetwyd, CW-45001 featuring “It’s Best (by Foreman – Bogliole), a gentle ballad featuring the band’s vocal harmonies, accompanied by what sounds like autoharp and even whistling.

Ed Commons ran a studio in Lexington and also the Chetwyd label.

“Trifolia” (by Foreman – Flynn – Bogliole) is more rocking but the production gives it a distant sound. The release date was 1966, and like all their songs the labels list publishing by Chetwyd, though there’s no listing for them in the Library of Congress.

In April 1967 the One of Hours released their second single on Chetwyd CW-45005. The production is so much better, and the band more energetic and tighter. “Feel The Pain” (written by Foreman – Flynn – Bogliole) is a stand-out rocker with blistering lead guitar, some fuzz blasts, good lead and backing vocals, and a solid rhythm section behind it all.

“Psychedelic Illusion” (by Foreman – Willcutt) has the cloudier production of the first single, but has beautiful guitar picking and a melancholy feel to go with lyrics like “the sounds and the colors start to sway / the sounds and the colors are starting to fade / I feel my life slip away”. An organ, barely heard on the flip side, plays the instrumental break.

After speaking to Ed Commons, Lee Bryant reported to me that Carol Craig left, and the band added Bob Willcut on lead guitar for “Feel the Pain”. Lee sent in the news clip, below, of this lineup of the band:

Dave Baldwin spoke to a couple members of the band in the 1990s and said that Bob Willcutt played a Mosrite electric 12-string on “Psychedelic Illusion”.

Most intriguingly, Dave learned the group signed to Liberty Records with the group name changed to “Dandelion Wine”, and recorded and mixed an entire album only to have it cancelled by the label. Finally this LP has come to light courtesy of Bob Willcutt, and is definitely worth a listen, plus there are many photos within the videos for the twelve songs.

Lee Bryant reports that the lineup changed when they became Dandelion Wine, and included singer Vance Arnett and drummer Davie Rudolf (who could also be drumming on “Feel the Pain”).

Lee reports that the band began travelling to Washington, DC in the fall of 1968, trying to establish a foothold in the area’s music scene. In Lexington they were mostly a studio group, so it would be interesting to see some gig ads or news clips of their activity in DC.

Bob Willcutt owns Lexington’s Willicut Guitars.

Thank you to Dave Baldwin and Lee Bryant for their help. Special thanks to Ed Commons for the photo of the band at the top of the article.