Jim Rigsbee, the Monday-nite oldies guy on KPOO, doesn't hit the '70s too often, but last nite he floored me by playing one of my favorite forgotten 45s, 1971's "I Hear Those Churchbells Ringing" by Dusk, a lovingly retro-'60s
hommage to girl-group records in general and "Chapel of Love" in particular. And lo, someone on YouTube posted the Dusk tune with a bit of the Dixie Cups inserted for reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAj7hV81KR8Dusk were produced by Medress & Appell at Bell records, who had just scored with the first couple of Dawn hits; someone at Bell apparently decided "hey, we have a group called Dawn, so we should get one named Dusk". And so this short-lived retro girl-group was born. But what I didn't know until last nite was that the lead singer of Dusk was Peggy Santiglia, who had been lead singer of the Angels on "My Boyfriend's Back"! I think Gaz will especially appreciate this tune if he's never heard it.