Le Mew!

I’ve noticed some info about 60′s girl group The Pussycats have started popping up on the
web here and there, which is great but it’s still amazing that so little info is
available on these girls. Of course, there are no photos of the group to be found! So here’s our pussycat heroine Babette instead to the rescue:

Here’s what I already knew, and what I could find out:

This single was their first release in 1965, on Columbia records. It’s quite possibly my favorite 45 of all my collection. Both these two songs have been comped (“The Rider” on Girls in The Garage vol 7 and “I Want Your Love” on Where The Girls Are vol 5 – their 2nd single, a cover of the Shangri-La’s “Dressed in Black”, is available on GITG vol 5) but the comps are not what you’d call widespread and/or available, so here they are for your downloading pleasure. My apologies for the scratchy-scratches at the beginning (meow).

Something else of note: they were produced by Shangri-Las guru Artie Butler.

“I Want Your Love” is just mind blowing, and I’ve always been fascinated by the abrupt ending on “The Rider”. So strange. Both these songs are just so fantastic.

Have a listen!

The Pussycats – The Rider
The Pussycats – I Want Your Love