LITTLE DADDY and the BACHELORS [CAN]

(Left-to-right): Tommy "Little Daddy" Milton, Wes Henderson (bass), Tommy Chong (guitar), Don Mallory (drums).

Homebase: Calgary > Vancouver, BC, Canada
Stats: About 1963-65
Misc Notes: Tommy "Little Daddy" Melton (vocals), Wes Henderson (bass), Tommy Chong (guitar), Don Mallory (drums). Later members included: Floyd Sneed (drums) who went on to join Three Dog Night;  Floyd's older brother  Bernie Sneed (Hammond organ); Melton and Henderson later merged with Bobby Taylor -- and a few ex-Good Shepherds: Robbie King, Eddie Patterson, and Ted Lewis (aka Duris Maxwell) -- forming Bobby Taylor and The Vancouvers.

Photo courtesy Rob Frith.

Photo courtesy Rob Frith.

"I used to risk my life and jail to sneak in, underage, to hear Bernie Sneed play the Hammond B3 in this band. Tommy Chong was a dangerous dude in these days and one hell of a guitar player. Little Daddy and Harry Walker and the Hi Fives were seminal R&B groups playing the real deal, underground, in clubs that your momma would not like you going to: Smilin’ Buddha, New Delhi, etc., strippers with pasties, drag queens, heroin addicts. Wes used to chew gum in 6/8 and play in 4/4. He had black plastic coated bass strings (probably Rotosound from England) 10 years before the rest of us."

Bob Brown, keyboards for the Centaurs and Little Stormy and the Mystics, June 2007 correspondence with pnwbands.com website, (courtesy of webmaster Sam Carlson)

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