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ABKCO release the first two albums by Michigan garage rock legends aka Question Mark and The Mysterians 96 Tears 1966 and Action 1967.Formed in the Bay City Saginaw area of Michigan in 1962 by MexicanAmerican children of migrant farm workers, the band gained popularity with the addition of drummer Robert Martinez’ s brother Rudy, aka Question Mark, as lead vocalist. The eccentric Question Mark often stylized as ‘’ has claimed to have been born on Mars and lived among dinosaurs in a past life.A mere eight months after 96 Tears was released, CameoParkway put out the follow up fulllength Action in June of ’ 67. Their sophomore album is more evenly split between originals and covers, among them “Can’ t Get Enough of You, Baby,” written by Denny Randell and Sandy Linzer and first recorded by The Four Seasons one year previous. and The Mysterians’ version got to 56 on the Billboard Hot 100, faring better than Smash Mouth’ s ubiquitous 1998 version, which appeared on four other Billboard charts but was absent from the coveted Hot 100. Action would be the band’ s last studio album for more than three decades.
