? AND THE MYSTERIANS"96 TEARS" DEBUT 1966 STEREO LP CAMEO SC 2004 EX++11-27-66

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QUESTION MARK AND THE MYSTERIANS  Their DEBUT 1966 US Album in STEREO RELEASE
Latin Proto Punk Rock
"96 TEARS"
John Lennon was quoted as saying "96 Tears" as the "Best Rock n Roll Song Ever"
Question Mark and the Mysterians (rendered ? and the Mysterians on the record label) are an American rock and roll band formed in Bay City, Michigan, in 1962. The group took its name from the 1957 Japanese science fiction film The Mysterians, in which aliens from the destroyed planet Mysteroid arrive to conquer Earth, and may have been the first group to be described as punk rock. They were also the first Latino rock band to have a mainstream hit record in the United States with 1966's "96 Tears", which sold over one million copies and won a BMI award for over three million airplays.

Rudy "Question Mark" Martinez wrote the band's first and biggest hit, "96 Tears," with essential riffs and styling contributed by the other band members. The song began as a poem called "Too Many Teardrops," written four years before the band was formed.[4] The song was notable for its plaintive chorus and Rodriguez's catchy Vox organ riff. "96 Tears" was recorded on March 13, 1966, on a house porch in Bay City, Michigan. The band had originally decided to use the song "Midnight Hour" as the single A-side with "96 Tears" as the B-side. However, at the insistence of Martinez, "96 Tears" became the A-side.

"96 Tears" was released as a single by Pa-Go-Go Records, owned by the group's manager, Lillian Gonzales. Martinez visited numerous local radio stations to promote the single, and the song quickly became a regional hit in the Flint and Detroit areas. When Cameo-Parkway Records released "96 Tears" nationally, it became a number one hit single., selling over one million copies and receiving a gold disc. Over the ensuing decades, "96 Tears" became part of the standard classic rock repertoire, and was recorded in dozens of different versions.