KING JAMES AND THE ROYAL JESTERS
Point Pleasant, W VA
Bottom left to right: Art Thevenin and David Anthony.
Standing left to right: Eddie Swann, Dee Thevenin, Mike Carlisle and Jack Simpkins
Mike Carlisle, the keyboardist wrote I Get a Feeling. Mike Carlisle and D. Thevenin wrote the ballad on the flip, Girl, which became popular with homesick soldiers in Vietnam when a Point Pleasant recruit took the record overseas with him. Other members of the band were Willie Louis guitar, Butch Bright and David Anthony on bass, and Eddie Swan drums.
(courtesy GARAGEHANGOVER)