Song:You Burn Me Up And Down
Album:Too Much Noise
Here's a 60s garage band that was a cut above the usual and deserves to be better known. We The People was even on a major label. But things just didn't work out for them. The group was from Orlando, FL and was a mix of a couple of local bands. It started with a group called The Nonchalants who became The Offbeets. 16 year old guitarist Tommy Talton joined The Offbeets in 1966. They merged with a group called The Trademarks and guitarist Wayne Proctor. The new group was called We The People. Randy Boyte and David Duff were the other members but Talton and Proctor wrote the songs. They recorded some singles for Challenge Records including You Burn Me up And Down. They had enough chart success in Florida that they earned a contract with RCA Records. They went to Nashville to record but Proctor left the group in 1967 to return to college and avoid the draft. The problem was he was the better songwriter of the two. Talton tried to keep We The People going but they were dropped by RCA. This comp from Sundazed has all their recordings. Tommy Talton went on to be a session guitarist working mostly with Southern rockers like The Allman Brothers. He toured with Gregg Allman and Livingston Taylor and was a member of the 70s group Cowboy. He is retired from the music business and now lives in Luxembourg. Wayne Proctor continued writing songs and worked for local government in Florida. Here's a video for You Burn Me Up And Down by We The People using a scene from the 1968 film The Touchables. It's a little more creative than the usual homemade videos I have seen.
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