The Mojo Men formed in 1964, when singer/bassist Jim Alaimo, guitarist Paul Curcio, drummer Dennis DeCarr, and keyboardist Don Metchick moved from Florida to San Francisco to form a new band. There they met Sylvester Stewart, later known as Sly Stone, who was at the time a record producer at Autumn Records for acts such as The Beau Brummels and The Vejtables. Stewart and the band recorded a few songs under the name Sly And The Mojo Men, but he was unsatisfied with the results and chose not to release them, and he later produced a number of recordings from the band where they performed their own material, as well as a few covers. Once again, these were held in the vaults of Autumn Records as they were not deemed worthy of release. In 1966 DeCarr left the group and was replaced by drummer/vocalist Jan Errico, formerly of the Vejtables, and following a move from Autumn to Reprise Records, the band's earlier British Invasion-influenced garage rock style evolved into a more successful pop/folk rock. The 1966 recordings have since been released on a compilation, but you can hear why some of them didn't find favour with the label, and so by trimming the track listing down to just the best songs, and removing demos and duplicates, we can approximate what an album of British Invasion-style rockers from the group might have sounded like in 1966.
Track listing
01 Why
02 My Woman's Head
03 As I Get Older
04 Girl Won't You Go On Home
05 Free As A Bird
06 Lost Love
07 Dance With Me
08 Loneliest Boy In Town
09 Everything I Need
10 Fire In My Heart
11 Something Bad
12 The New Breed
13 She's My Baby
14 Why Can't You Stay
