On this day in 1966 the garage band Count Five entered the Billboard charts with “Psychotic Reaction”, their only hit. The Count Five are one of many garage bands featured in the legendary Nuggets collection curated by Jac Holzman of Elektra Records and the Patti Smith Group’s Lenny Kaye. The Nuggets sound and garage band ethos is credited as one of the foundations of punk.

Count Five - “Psychotic Reaction”

More Nuggets Bands:

Promo short for Love - “Your Mind” and “We Belong Together”

13th Floor Elevators - “You’re Gonna Miss Me”

Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs - “Wooly Bully”

The Kingsmen on “Shindig” performing one of the mega-hits that kicked off the garage rock movement - “Louie Louie”

The Standells - “Dirty Water”

The Shadows of Knight perform one of many versions of “Gloria”. Other famous versions include ones by Them with Van Morrison and Patti Smith’s punk rendition.

Speaking of Patti Smith, her husband Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith was known for his stellar contribution to garage rock in The Sonics. “Boss Hoss”

The Amboy Dukes (featuring a young Ted Nugent) - “Journey to the Center of Your Mind”

Paul Revere & The Raiders - “Kicks”, perhaps one of the first anti-drug rock songs.

The eccentric Latino outfit Question Mark & the Mysterians with “96 Tears”

MC5 - “Kick Out the Jams” (TV, 1972)

Outside the US:

The Creation - “Making Time”

The Easybeats - “Friday on My Mind” (Live in Germany, 1967)
Trivia: George Young, rhythm guitarist for The Easybeats is the older brother of Malcolm and Angus Young of AC/DC and has produced some of their records.

The Troggs - “Love Is All Around”

A teenaged David Bowie in a BBC news piece on “the prevention of cruelty to long hairs”

Status Quo - “Pictures of Matchstick Men”