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Like so many teenage girls in the 1960s who formed a quartet appended with “-ettes,” the members of Lubbock, Texas’ The Tonettes saw the briefest glint of fame. Under the mentorship of their high school English teacher Virgil Johnson (who had a habit of getting involved in students’ musical pursuits), the Tonettes traveled seven hours from Lubbock to San Antonio for the 1965 Swingtime teen variety show. Their performance caught the attention of Dynamic Records’ Abe Epstein, who recorded the 1965 single “My Heart Can Feel The Pain” b/w “I Gotta Know" in mere hours.
Little is known about the tracks’ reception and the Tonette’s subsequent ventures, and Johnson lost contact with them over the years. All that exists for the archive are these two roaring tracks recorded one afternoon in 1965.
Little is known about the tracks’ reception and the Tonette’s subsequent ventures, and Johnson lost contact with them over the years. All that exists for the archive are these two roaring tracks recorded one afternoon in 1965.
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