Best of Pebbles Series

BEST OF PEBBLES SERIES

Before it was over, I had purchased close to 100 LP’s and CD’s with the Pebbles name, and I still don’t have them all. In fact, some were mostly circulated in Great Britain under the name Best of Pebbles, and I only ever saw them one time – at the same Schoolkids Records store across from the North Carolina State University campus on Hillsborough Street where I first saw the original Pebbles LP’s. I sure wish I had bought at least one or two that day; not even Bomp! Records has a full set of those albums.

(July 2013)

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Anyway, once Kill City broke the ice, Bomp! Records and their affiliated labels like BFD Records, Voxx Records, AIP Records, Mohawk Records, and others began pressing LP’s by the truckload almost immediately. The label’s first compilation album, The Best of Bomp, Volume One was originally released in 1978. The Pebbles Series of 1960’s garage rock and psychedelic rock songs that number nearly 100 albums in all began shipping in 1978; besides Pebbles, the various series (both LP’s and CD’s) include the Highs in the Mid-Sixties Series, The Continent Lashes Back, Best of Pebbles, Great Pebbles, etc. Their other reissues of 1960’s music include the English Freakbeat Series, the Rough Diamonds Series, and the Electric Sugar Cube Flashbacks Series.

(December 2017)