![]() ![]() We never were paid anything, but Chuck did take us out to a Chinese place not far away for a free meal sometime after midnight, when we finally finished. We had to improvise various generic riffs to fit the scenes, including the "creepy" guitar sounds when the monster appears (that's me on my Fender jaguar), as well as the beach party, the car crash sequence, and several other scenes. ![]() We had to do it at night, because it was during school. We were told that Frank Jr had actually written one of the many different songs we played throughout the movie, but they thought using his name in the credits would ad at least some credibility to an otherwise delightfully sleezy film. We never saw the entire film until it played at a local drive-in theater. Chuck called us into the LA studio to do the track while watching clips from the movie. Kids who had a real contract!! We were thrilled, and of course, still inexperienced kids. We were a typical high-school band playing for dances and parties, when Chuck Segal, connected to capitol records (how I could not tell you) put us on contract to make records after hearing a demo record we made in Cucamonga, CA, and carried all over LA to record companies. There was also a studio musician playing trumpet and french horn. I played lead guitar, Monty Byrd played drums, Dave Phillips rhythm guitar, Mick Okleshen (an airman on active duty at March AFB) on bass, and Tom Burrell on Sax. in one evening by a band called the Illusions, from Riverside, CA. Frank Sinatra Jr had absolutely nothing to do with the soundtrack. ![]()
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