The Hondells

The album's cover showed a four-member group and its liner notes contained an elaborate back story, penned by Christian, which posited one Ritchie Burns as the founder and leader of the band.As the song climbed the charts, Usher assembled a band to tour in support, and "Little Honda" eventually peaked at No.The Hondells scored another modest hit single in 1966 with a cover of the Lovin' Spoonful song "Younger Girl" (Mercury 72562) before disbanding.Gary Usher continued to mine this genre of music with numerous 'bands' made up of session musicians doing one-off recordings.These fictional bands issued recordings as the Sunsets, the Four Speeds, Gary Usher and the Usherettes (aka: the Honeys), the Competitors, the Go-Go's, the Devons, the Ghouls, the Super Stocks, the Indigos, the Revells, the Kickstands and the Knights.The remaining tracks consisted of "Black Denim," "Night Rider," "My Little Bike," "Lay It Down," "He Wasn't Coming Back," and "Honda Holliday."
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