Roy Head

Texan Roy Head was born in January of 1943. In 1957, Roy formed a group, The Traits. In spite of the fact the sextet’s members were minors, the band was able to establish a recording career.

The Traits’ success remained regional until, in 1964, as Roy Head and The Traits, it was signed to Scepter Records. This led to the band recording its only major hit, “Treat Her Right”, which was released on the label, Back Beat, in 1965.

“Treat Her  Right”, in spite of its brevity, ascended to No.2 in the United States, No.8 in Canada, No.13 in Australia and No.30 in Britain.

Roy Head embarked upon a career as a solo artist, in 1967. A career that would lead him to record country music. Between 1974 and 1985 Roy had twenty-four singles enter the American country chart, the biggest of which was “Come To Me”, in 1977-’78.

“Treat Her Right” has been covered by others in more recent decades with, perhaps, George Thorogood’s elongated version known most well.

 

The Reflections

Tony Micale, Phil Castrodale, Ray Steinberg, Dan Bennie and John Dean were the founding members of The Reflections, a doo-wop group from Detroit, Michigan.

The vocalists experienced just the one major hit, “(Just Like) Romeo And Juliet”, in 1964. The single reached N0.6 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart while, in Australia, it peaked at No.14. The Australian group, Mental As Anything, revived it there, in 1980, and, whilst it rose to No.17 locally, I find it to be a pale imitation of the original.

Reduced to a quartet, following the departure of Ray Steinberg, The Reflections appeared in the film, ‘Winter-A-Go-Go’, in 1965.