The Mugwumps were a 1960s rock band

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. The Mugwumps made some recordings in the mid-60s, but the short-lived New York

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 group, formed in 1964, is principally remembered for what its members did after they split up.

The Band's name is taken from the William S. Burroughs

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 novel The Naked Lunch.

Members Cass Elliot

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 and Denny Doherty

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 would become one-half of The Mamas & the Papas

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. John B. Sebastian and Zal Yanovsky

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 would form The Lovin' Spoonful

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. Jim Hendricks

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 formed The Lamp of Childhood

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, which recorded three singles for Dunhill Records

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.

Jim Hendricks (not to be confused with rock guitarist legend, Jimi Hendrix

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) was the odd man out, not achieving any notable subsequent fame, but still having considerable success as a performer and songwriter. He wrote the top 15 hit "Summer Rain" for Johnny Rivers

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, and the theme song "Long Lonesome Highway" for the TV show Then Came Bronson

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. His 1989 album Running in the Light is considered a classic of Christian music

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. Now living in Nashville, Tennessee

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, Hendricks has recorded over 50 albums of traditional American folk

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, Mountain, Gospel

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, and Western

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 music.

Albums

• The Mugwumps (Warner Bros. 1967)

Side 1:

1. Searchin'
2. I Don't Wanna Know
3. I'll Remember Tonight
4. Here It Is Another Day
5. Do You Know What I Mean

Side 2:

1. You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover
2. Everybody's Been Talkin'
3. Do What They Don't Say
4. So Fine

Produced by Roy Silver & Bob Cavallo in association with Alan Loeber /A Cavallo & Silver Production. Recorded in late summer of 1964.

Singles

• I Don't Wanna Know b/w I'll Remember Tonight (1964 Warner Bros. 5471)
• Searchin' b/w Here It Is Another Day (1967 Warner Bros. 7018)

External links

• '60s rock group - Biography of the Mugwumps rise and dissolution. (Retrieved 13 July 2006)
• Jim Hendricks Website- Jim Hendricks American Folk Artist