Song:Falling Sugar
Album:Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
The Palace Guard were another mid-60s band that never really made it but have been kept alive by the popularity of Rhino's Nuggets garage band comps. Falling Sugar is probably their best known song. The core of the group was brothers John, Dick & Don Beaudine along with Rick Moser, Chuck McLung, Mike Conley and Emmitt Rhodes. Don Agrati AKA Don Grady joined the band for a short time and they were called Don Grady and The Palace Guard. He would soon leave for Yellow Balloon but he's probably best known for playing Robbie Douglas on My Three Sons. Originally they were called The Emeralds. But then they started wearing Buckingham Palace guard uniforms on stage and became The Palace Guard. So their music was heavily influenced by the British Invasion and for a while they were the house band at the Hullabaloo club in Los Angeles. They released a few singles that went nowhere. Falling Sugar was picked up for national distribution by Verve Records but it never broke nationally. Then they released a few singles on Cameo/Parkway. The Palace Guard split up when Emmitt Rhodes left to join the much more successful group The Merry-Go-Rounds and later Rhodes had a brief solo career. All the Palace Guard recordings are available on one CD but I recommend the Nuggets 4CD box set instead. Here's The Palace Guard performing Falling Sugar on Where The Action Is.
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