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You can find more info about them on wikipedia and other sites so I am not going to dwell on that. I just want to say that the first time I heard them cover "Set Me Free" (I didn't at the time hear the "Vanilla Fudge" cover) I was hooked. I probably went to more than 20 of their shows and I would never budge from the speakers. Until today, I think that  Stan Solomon was the greatest and most soulful singer I have ever experienced in a live setting. In 1969 he decided for personal reasons to leave the band and on a very very sad day the remaining  members replaced him with Dany Shushan. OK, I may be a little too harsh on the guy, but seeing him for the first time with the Churchills at the first Israeli Rock Concert (I think it was 1970) was quite a letdown. Additionally they covered songs like "Living, Loving" & "She's a Woman" which didn't quite work for me. The rest of the boys proved over and again that they still had the chops whether it was playing with Shalom Chanoch, Arik Einstein or any of their other numerous projects. For an idea of how they sounded head to Churchill's youtube and listen to the only album featuring Stan Solomon. It's one the rarest psych LP's selling nowadays for $6,000 if any are available at all.

On a more personal note, by 1969 my English was good enough for me to start singing in that language, so I started my own band. "The Surprise" - I was aided in that by a kid who brought a Beatle bass from Germany - he wanted to be a drummer so he sold me the bass. The band was completed by my upstairs neighbor Shlomo and later on another kid named Cobi. We didn't have any equipment, so I used my Sony tape deck and an old radio for amplification. The rehearsals took place in our bomb shelter (every one's got one in Israel.)

Our marketing skills were obviously non- existent a fact driven home by the take from our first show 1.87 IL (Israeli Lira - it was probably about 50 cents in U.S. money.) The drummer left us and we eventually replaced him with someone a bit older and with some

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