HAVA BANANA
RECORDS
Independent label: This one is
another band-in-disguise single courtesy of BIG BEAT records. This EP is
billed as "The Bananamen Play Songs Made Popular By the Cramps". The back sleeve
cleverly describes the tracks as having been recorded in 1965 on the Hava Banana
label out of Minneapolis, Minnesota and then being lost forever until a press
release found in a Minneapolis junk shop fired up Big Beat to track down a copy
of the single and re-release it. a side project of UK garage trash legends THE
STINGRAYS! The Bananamen was their first secret project, followed later in 1987
by their ESSENTIAL LP under the name of UG AND THE CAVEMEN Distributed By Big
Beat Records.
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The Bananamen
The Crusher
HAVA
BANANA
NS
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