When I heard the Loose Ends “Hey, Sweet Baby” / “I Love You, Baby”, I thought this might be a rural southern single. I was surprised to find a suburban Connecticut address on the labels.

“Hey, Sweet Baby” by Robins and Douglas has a fuzz blues riff that hardly varies the entire song. There are breaks, not for guitar solos, but screams and hoots. Great drumming too. The hand claps towards the end of the song show the group was loose indeed.

The flip “I Love You, Baby” by Robins is a fine ballad with an extended reverb guitar solo.

Released on Meadow Brook Records MB-0069, the labels have an address of 27 Carousel Drive, Nichols, CT (now would be Trumball, CT), northeast of Bridgeport. The labels spell it Carrousel.

Produced by MBR Productions, and published by Loose Ends Music BMI. This is a Rite pressing from October, 1969.

The Loose Ends seem to be a dead end, as I can’t find any leads past the info on the label.