The Human Beinz
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The Human Beinz (ˈbiː.ɨnz ) is an American
rock and roll
/ frat rock band from Youngstown, Ohio
. Originally known as The Human Beingz, the band initially featured John "Dick" Belley (vocals, guitar), Joe "Ting" Markulin (vocals, guitar), Mel Pachuta (vocals, bass) and Gary Coates (drums, later replaced by Mike Tatman.)
of songs by Them
, The Yardbirds
, The Who
and Bob Dylan
. The group was also the first to record a cover of "Gloria" by Them, which became a hit for the Shadows of Knight
, and covered "The Pied Piper
", which later became a hit for Crispian St. Peters
.
The group signed to Capitol Records
in 1967 and at that time Capitol misspelled their name, leaving out the "g". The Beingz were told it would be changed on the next release if the debut single did not have any success. In September 1967 "Nobody but Me" was released and became their only Billboard
Top 40 hit, which meant that Capitol would not correct the spelling. "Nobody But Me" (written and first recorded by The Isley Brothers
in 1962) peaked at #8 in February 1968. In Casey Kasem
's "Book of Records" category of most repetitive word or phrase in a Hot 100 top 10 hit, the recording's two 31-fold repetitions of the word "no" are second only to the two 40-fold and one 50-plus-fold repetitions of the imitative word "dit" in "Western Union" by Five Americans. An album
, Nobody But Me, followed.
The Beinz' next single, "Turn On Your Love Light
," flopped in the United States (peaking at #80), but reached #1 in Japan
. "Turn On Your Love Light", originally a hit for Bobby Bland
in 1962, was later covered by Jerry Lee Lewis
and the Grateful Dead
. In 1968, Capitol released a second album, Evolutions. They also released the single, "Hold on Baby", exclusively in Japan, where it also hit the top of the charts. Despite their Japanese success, The Human Beinz broke up in March 1969, but due to contract obligations, had to undertake a tour there.
Their song "Dance On Through" was featured in an episode of The Addams Family
.
used "Nobody But Me" in his film
, Kill Bill: Vol. 1
, although it did not appear on the movie soundtrack
. The same song was on two compilation album
s: ESPN
's The Greatest Crowd-Rockin' Anthems Of All Time and J&R
's Music World Presents Rock And Roll's Greatest Hits Of All Time. The song made yet another appearance in Martin Scorsese
's 2006 film The Departed
. It was also featured in the seventh season premiere
of the American comedy television series The Office.
The new lineup of the Human Beinz played The Hard Rock Cafe
at Foxwoods Casino, Bodles Opera House, county fairs and other venues in the Northeast. The group also featured their original leader Ting Markulin. The group has written and recorded two new songs, "McQ" and "Coyotes & Rattlesnakes", for McQueen: An American Rebel (2007). The world premiere and gala were held at the Downing Film Center in Newburgh, New York
. The Human Beinz with Markulin were in attendance, as was Barbara McQueen
and author Marshall Terrill
.
Markulin is currently living in Florida
. The Human Beinz are currently mixing a recorded album of originals and 1960s cover songs in Pennsylvania
. They appeared in concert at The Dome SUNY Binghamton Events Center in Binghamton, New York
, in concert with Jay and The Americans
and The Vogues
, on May 8, 2010. On July 31, 2010, they appeared at "Night of 100 Rock Stars", as part of the Nat Rock Con Fan Fest at the Sheraton Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey
.
Present day band members include Ting Markulin (rhythm guitar & vocals) Gene Szegedi (lead guitar), Sal Crisafi (keyboards, guitar & vocals), Ed McCarthy (bass), Rick White (lead vocals & percussion) and Mike Cerra (drums and percussion)
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
rock and roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
/ frat rock band from Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Mahoning County; it also extends into Trumbull County. The municipality is situated on the Mahoning River, approximately southeast of Cleveland and northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
. Originally known as The Human Beingz, the band initially featured John "Dick" Belley (vocals, guitar), Joe "Ting" Markulin (vocals, guitar), Mel Pachuta (vocals, bass) and Gary Coates (drums, later replaced by Mike Tatman.)
Early career
The Beinz started in 1964 as The Premiers, launching their professional career to build a local fan base. In 1966, they changed their name to The Human Beingz because they felt their old name did not fit with the feel of the late 1960s. They recorded coversCover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of songs by Them
Them (band)
Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard "Gloria" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career...
, The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds
- Current :* Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals * Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals * Ben King - lead guitar * David Smale - bass, backing vocals...
, The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
and Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
. The group was also the first to record a cover of "Gloria" by Them, which became a hit for the Shadows of Knight
Shadows of Knight
The Shadows of Knight are an American rock band from the Chicago suburbs, formed in the 1960s, who play a form of British blues mixed with influences from their native city. At the time they first started recording, the band's self-description was as follows: "The Stones, Animals and Yardbirds...
, and covered "The Pied Piper
The Pied Piper (1960s song)
The Pied Piper was a British pop song written by the duo of Steve Duboff and Artie Kornfeld, who first recorded the song in 1965 as The Changin' Times. However, it was British pop singer Crispian St...
", which later became a hit for Crispian St. Peters
Crispian St. Peters
Crispian St. Peters was an English pop singer-songwriter, best known for his work in the 1960s, particularly his 1966 hits, "The Pied Piper" and "You Were on My Mind."-Early career:...
.
The group signed to Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
in 1967 and at that time Capitol misspelled their name, leaving out the "g". The Beingz were told it would be changed on the next release if the debut single did not have any success. In September 1967 "Nobody but Me" was released and became their only Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Top 40 hit, which meant that Capitol would not correct the spelling. "Nobody But Me" (written and first recorded by The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...
in 1962) peaked at #8 in February 1968. In Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem is an American radio personality and voice actor who is best known for being the host of the nationally syndicated Top 40 countdown show American Top 40, and for voicing Shaggy in the popular Saturday morning cartoon franchise Scooby-Doo.Kasem, along with Don Bustany and...
's "Book of Records" category of most repetitive word or phrase in a Hot 100 top 10 hit, the recording's two 31-fold repetitions of the word "no" are second only to the two 40-fold and one 50-plus-fold repetitions of the imitative word "dit" in "Western Union" by Five Americans. An album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
, Nobody But Me, followed.
The Beinz' next single, "Turn On Your Love Light
Turn On Your Love Light
"Turn On Your Love Light" is an R&B-style blues song recorded by Bobby Bland in 1961. It was a both an important R&B and pop chart hit for Bland and has become one of his most identifiable songs...
," flopped in the United States (peaking at #80), but reached #1 in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. "Turn On Your Love Light", originally a hit for Bobby Bland
Bobby Bland
Robert Calvin Bland better known as Bobby "Blue" Bland, is an American singer of blues and soul. He is an original member of the Beale Streeters, and is sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues"...
in 1962, was later covered by Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...
and the Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
. In 1968, Capitol released a second album, Evolutions. They also released the single, "Hold on Baby", exclusively in Japan, where it also hit the top of the charts. Despite their Japanese success, The Human Beinz broke up in March 1969, but due to contract obligations, had to undertake a tour there.
Their song "Dance On Through" was featured in an episode of The Addams Family
The Addams Family
The Addams Family is a group of fictional characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. As named by Charles Addams, the Addams Family characters include Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandmama, Wednesday, Pugsley, and Thing....
.
Revival
In 2004, Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...
used "Nobody But Me" in his film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Kill Bill
Kill Bill Volume 1 is a 2003 action thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the first of two volumes that were theatrically released several months apart, the second volume being Kill Bill Volume 2....
, although it did not appear on the movie soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
. The same song was on two compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
s: ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
's The Greatest Crowd-Rockin' Anthems Of All Time and J&R
J&R
J&R is a well-known retail store in New York City, located on Park Row, across from New York City Hall.J&R stands for Joe and Rachelle Friedman, the founders, who established the company in 1971 after emigrating from Israel...
's Music World Presents Rock And Roll's Greatest Hits Of All Time. The song made yet another appearance in Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
's 2006 film The Departed
The Departed
The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film, fashioned as a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan...
. It was also featured in the seventh season premiere
Nepotism (The Office)
"Nepotism" is the seventh season premiere of the American comedy television series The Office, and the show's 127th episode overall. Written by Daniel Chun and directed by Jeffrey Blitz, the episode aired on NBC in the United States on September 23, 2010...
of the American comedy television series The Office.
The new lineup of the Human Beinz played The Hard Rock Cafe
Hard Rock Cafe
Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Americans Peter Morton & Isaac Tigrett. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2006, Hard Rock was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and...
at Foxwoods Casino, Bodles Opera House, county fairs and other venues in the Northeast. The group also featured their original leader Ting Markulin. The group has written and recorded two new songs, "McQ" and "Coyotes & Rattlesnakes", for McQueen: An American Rebel (2007). The world premiere and gala were held at the Downing Film Center in Newburgh, New York
Newburgh (city), New York
Newburgh is a city located in Orange County, New York, United States, north of New York City, and south of Albany, on the Hudson River. Newburgh is a principal city of the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown metropolitan area, which includes all of Dutchess and Orange counties. The Newburgh area was...
. The Human Beinz with Markulin were in attendance, as was Barbara McQueen
Barbara Minty
Barbara Minty, also known as Barbara Minty McQueen, is the third wife of American film star Steve McQueen. Barbara was born in Seattle, Washington and spent several years growing up in Corvallis, Oregon, graduating from Corvallis High School in 1971....
and author Marshall Terrill
Marshall Terrill
Marshall Terrill is an American author and journalist. He is noted for biographies on Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, and Pete Maravich.- Early years: 1963-1982:...
.
Markulin is currently living in Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
. The Human Beinz are currently mixing a recorded album of originals and 1960s cover songs in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
. They appeared in concert at The Dome SUNY Binghamton Events Center in Binghamton, New York
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton is a city in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers...
, in concert with Jay and The Americans
Jay and the Americans
Jay and the Americans was a pop music group popular in the 1960s. Their initial lineup consisted of John "Jay" Traynor, Howard Kane , Kenny Vance and Sandy Deanne , though their greatest success on the charts came after Traynor had been replaced as lead singer by Jay Black.-Early years:They were...
and The Vogues
The Vogues
The Vogues are an American vocal group from Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The original group consisted of Bill Burkette , Don Miller , Hugh Geyer and Chuck Blasko .-Career:...
, on May 8, 2010. On July 31, 2010, they appeared at "Night of 100 Rock Stars", as part of the Nat Rock Con Fan Fest at the Sheraton Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey
East Rutherford, New Jersey
East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,913. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located west of Midtown Manhattan....
.
Present day band members include Ting Markulin (rhythm guitar & vocals) Gene Szegedi (lead guitar), Sal Crisafi (keyboards, guitar & vocals), Ed McCarthy (bass), Rick White (lead vocals & percussion) and Mike Cerra (drums and percussion)