Swingin' Medallions
Colleton County Rice Festival
Walterboro Wildlife Center
100 S Jefferies Blvd
Walterboro, SC 29488
Apr 26, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
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April 14th 2024
Swingin' Medallions are a top notch group to work with. We hired them for a benefit concert for our school and they were excellent. Easy to work with. Great guys! Provided a top notch performance for our crowd!
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Swingin' Medallions Biography
A party band if ever there was one, the Swingin' Medallions came out of Greenwood, South Carolina. The musical style of the band had been described as garage music, beach music, frat rock, or shaggin' music. The original members were: John McElrath (keyboards), Jim Doares (guitar), Carroll Bledsoe (trumpet), Charles Webber (trumpet), Brent Forston (sax, flute), Steven Caldwell (sax), James Perkins (bass), and Joe Morris (drums). The group is chiefly known for its classic, Double Shot (of My Baby's Love). The song became a million seller in 1966, and has been a party classic for decades. She Drives Me Out Of My Mind and & Hey, Hey, Baby were top 40 hits in 1966 and 1967. The band has has remained extremely popular and still regularly perform today.
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60s
Garage Rock
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