Frankfurt Teen Club Rock Band on the SS America

Rock band

By coincidence our whole Frankfurt Teen Club band found itself on the return voyage to New York. Here we are on the stage at the ballroom of the SS America, mid-July 1961. We played a whole set, people danced; the regular band was glad to have break. The band is: Rick Wolk (drums), me (with my Framus guitar), Orval Yarger (guitar), and Dickie Brewer (piano, but who usually played the drums). I'd been looking for this photo for years and it magically turned up just now. Anyway, you'd see us about like this on the Teen Club stage most weekends. The band didn't have a name. I believe we were Frankfurt High's first rock band, and perhaps its only one until 1967, when suddenly there were dozens of them each year for the next 27 years. Dickie Brewer is the guy whose family car was a 16-cylinder 1936 Cord.