SPANKY AND OUR GANG
Note to future rock stars: be careful what you call yourself...you may end up having to live with a silly name for the rest of your life! The members of Elaine McFarlane's mid-'60s folk trio thought it was a clever idea to call themselves Spanky and Our Gang after characters from the classic comedy shorts of the '20s, '30s and '40s. Elaine had the same last name as cherubic Our Gang ringleader George "Spanky" McFarland...okay, not quite...and someone from her previous group thought she even resembled the famous tyke. Thus the name...pretty funny, huh? New York rockers The Rascals found themselves in a similar predicament when their manager decided the band would be called The Young Rascals...they were even hornswoggled into ... MORE ››
