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Georgian Hotel, Charlie Williams' Pinecrest Lodge. David Prince left the band in 1966 and joined a psychedelic band in Athens called October People. One of the venues they played in the late 1960s was the Shelby Teen Club in July 1968. Other groups to play there in that period were The Attractions, The Embers and The Monzas. Also in that year, they recorded an album that was made up of the rhythm and blues hits of the day.
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