Fugitives, Spidels and Laughing Kind, McCreless Shopping City, May 27, 1967

The Fugitives on Alamo Audio, San Antonio TX

Fugitives, Spidels and Laughing Kind, McCreless Shopping City, May 27, 1967

Fugitives David Walker San Express and News July29, 1967

The Fugitives are a San Antonio band that recorded two singles. Their first, I believe, is “Louie Go Home” backed with an original by Fugitives guitarist David Fisher, “You Know She’s a Woman”, recorded at Alamo Audio and released in the spring of 1967 on Alamo Audio 45-108. “Louie Go Home” made #28 in KTSA’s Top 30 of May 6, 1967.

An article on teens working summer jobs profiled David Fisher as a guitar & banjo teacher at Platter Palace. I don’t know who else was in the group.

The Fugitives had a second single, also from 1967, “Till The End Of The Day” / “Ferry Cross The Mersey” that I haven’t heard yet. Produced by Fisher – Alexander for release on Roun Soun Records 69/70-FK, with the address 5506 Keystone, San Antonio. There was a Roun Soun label out of Houston, but that seems like a different company.

I found an ad for the Fugitives at a “Teen’s Day Dance” at the McCreless Shopping City on May 27, 1967 with the Spidels and Laughing Kind, and also a June ’67 “rock and roll show and dance” at Turner Hall in Yoakum, about 100 miles to the east of San Antonio, with DJ Ricci Ware and a few other bands: the Laughing Kind, the Configurations, the Mad Mods and the Burbons (Bourbons).

Anyone have a photo of the group, or good scans of the Roun Soun single?

More info on the Fugitives or other local bands would be appreciated.

Fugitives KTSA San Antonio Express and News May 6, 1967
“Louie Go Home” reaches #28 in KTSA’s Top 30, May 6, 1967

One thought on “The Fugitives on Alamo Audio, San Antonio TX”

  1. I have them listed as a backup band on an early 1967 poster for McCoys show at the Catacombs in Houston.

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