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Mouse and the Traps is the name of an American garage rock band from Tyler, Texas that released numerous singles between 1965 and 1969, two of which, "A Public Execution" and "Sometimes You Just Can't Win", became large regional hits. The leader of the band, nicknamed "Mouse", was Ronnie Weiss. Two of their best known songs, "A Public Execution" and a cover of "Psychotic Reaction", are not actually credited to this band but, respectively, to simply Mouse and Positively 13 O'Clock instead. Their tangled history also included one single that was released anonymously under the name Chris St. John. ==Early history== Ronnie (Mouse) Weiss (1942 ) and Dave Stanley (1946 ) were members of a local band named Jerry Vee and the Catalinas (or simply the Catalinas) in 1964.〔Website for the Lone Star Ramblers, which include two former members of the band.〕 Weiss had also performed on a regional hit single "Lucky Lips" by Steve Wright and The Catalinas that was later released nationally by Dot Records.〔A 1997 interview with Robin Hood Brians in the liner notes for ''The Fraternity Years'', Ace Records website.〕 In this time period, they met Bugs Henderson (or Buggs Henderson), lead guitarist for a local instrumental band, the Sensors. Weiss and Knox Henderson – no relation to Buddy (Bugs) Henderson - co-wrote "A Public Execution" and brought the song to Robin Hood Brians, who manages Robin Hood Studios that is still in operation in Tyler, Texas today. This song – which strongly resembles Bob Dylan's music in the mid-1960s – was released as the band's first single in 1966 under the name ''Mouse''. Jerry Howell (who was also in Jerry Vee and the Catalinas〔Blog entry on the "Lost in Tyme" website (posted by Vernon Joynson, Max Waller and Paul Moffett).〕) and Ken (Nardo) Murray joined the group shortly thereafter, and most of their remaining music was released under the name ''Mouse and the Traps''. Besides Brians, other musicians that have played in various incarnations of the band over the years include Bobby Delk, Don (Levi) Garrett and Tim Gillespie. After releasing several singles on the Fraternity Records label, ''Mouse and the Traps'' also recorded two singles for Bell Records that were produced by Dale Hawkins (a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, and known as the writer and original recording artist for the early Creedence Clearwater Revival hit, "Suzie Q"). The band also performed on two of Hawkins' singles and contributed toward his 1966 album on the label, ''L.A., Memphis and Tyler, Texas''. The band broke up in 1969, but all members remained in music except Jerry Howell (who became a Baptist minister). By 1966, the members of ''Mouse and the Traps'' – along with Robin Hood Brians and Doug Rhone – were working with singer Jimmy Rabbitt, who was attempting to launch a band under the name ''Positively 13 O'Clock''. Continuing their Dylan connection, the name is an obvious play on Dylan's hit in the same time period, "Positively 4th Street". A Los Angeles studio session at Hanna-Barbera Records in September 1966 resulted in their only recorded single that included a frantic version of Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction".〔Liner notes for Pebbles, Volume 1 (CD), AIP Records.〕 However, a planned album for the band never materialized.〔Excerpt from ''The Radio Lives and Legends of Jimmy Rabbitt'', from RadioDailyNews.com website.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mouse and the Traps」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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