The Outsiders was an American

United States

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 rock and roll

Rock and roll

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 band from Cleveland, Ohio

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, that was founded and led by guitarist Tom King

Tom King (musician)

Thomas R. King was an American songwriter, guitarist, and arranger. He founded the 1960s rock band The Outsiders, and co-wrote the band's biggest hit song, "Time Won't Let Me".-Life and career:...

. The band is best known for its Top 5 hit "Time Won't Let Me" in early 1966, which peaked at #5 in the US, but the band had three other hit singles in 1966 and released a total of four albums in the mid-1960s.

Allmusic described the act's style: "Part of the secret behind the Outsiders musical success lay in the group's embellishments [with horns and strings], which slotted in perfectly with their basic three- or four-piece instrumental sound. . . . [H]owever bold and ambitious they got, one never lost the sense of a hard, solid band sound at the core. With Geraci's magnificent singing out front, it was impossible for anyone with an ear for soul not to love how this group sounded, on their album tracks as well as their singles."

Touring

The Outsiders promoted their hit single with about a year of nationwide touring, as "Time Won't Let Me" stayed on the national charts for 15 weeks (although their music was released in other countries, the band never toured overseas). The band first toured with Paul Revere and the Raiders and then with Chad and Jeremy

Chad and Jeremy

Chad & Jeremy are an English singing folk rock duo originating in the 1960s, comprising eyeglasses-wearing Chad Stuart , and Jeremy Clyde...

. Later, the Outsiders were part of a six-week tour of one-night stands headed by Gene Pitney

Gene Pitney

Eugene Francis Alan Pitney, known as Gene Pitney , was an American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the...

, and which included seven or eight other acts, among them Len Barry

Len Barry

Len Barry is a retired American vocalist, songwriter and record producer.-Career:...

, B.J. Thomas and Bobby Goldsboro

Bobby Goldsboro

Bobby Goldsboro is an American country and pop singer-songwriter. He had a string of Pop and Country hits during the 1960s and 1970s, including his signature #1 classic "Honey," which sold well over one million copies in the United States.-Early life:Goldsboro was born in Marianna, Florida...

. Afterwards, the Outsiders joined a four-week tour with several garage rock

Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

 and psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

 bands, as recalled by Geraci:

"[W]e did a tour after Pitney with the McCoys

The McCoys

The McCoys were a rock group that started in Union City, Indiana, in 1962.-Career:The original members, all from Union City, were guitarist Richard Zehringer , his brother Randy on drums, and bassist Dennis Kelly. This first line-up was known as The Rick Z Combo, and later known as Rick and the...

, ourselves and ? and the Mysterians, the Shadows of Knight and a group from the west coast

Western United States

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 called the Seeds

The Seeds

The Seeds were an American rock band. The group, whose repertoire spread between garage rock and acid rock, are considered one of the pioneers of punk rock.-History:...

...A guy called Pete Shelton from England joined us on bass for this tour. Pete stayed with us until we could find a replacement...he then stayed on for a short while as 'Tour Manager'. There were five rock bands. Was that a crazy tour!"

Later records

There were several line-up changes over the years, with King and Madsen from the original Starfires along with vocalist Sonny Geraci forming the core of the band in the early years. After drummer Ronnie Harkai

Ronald Harkai

Ronald Harkai , often known by the nickname Ronnie, is a musician best known as the drummer on the top-five single “Time Won’t Let Me,” by Cleveland-based rock band The Outsiders....

 left the band to join the Air Force

United States Air Force

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, Denny Benson and then Ricky Baker (real name: Rick Biagiola) handled drumming duties for a period of time. Following the charting success of their follow-up single "Girl in Love", which peaked at #21 in June 1966. With Ronnie Harkai having departed prior to sessions for the first album, former Starfire Jimmy Fox

Jim Fox (drummer)

Jim Fox is a musician best known as the drummer and organist of the James Gang, as well as the band's founder and its namesake. He is the only member of the group to appear in every incarnation of the band...

 (who had left the earlier band to go to college) was brought in by King to be the drummer for the remaining tracks of Time Won't Let Me

Time Won't Let Me (album)

Time Won't Let Me is the first studio album by the Outsiders. It was named after the band's early 1966 break-out single, "Time Won't Let Me".-Release data:...

. Following these sessions, Fox decided to return to the music world and founded a band in 1966 called the James Gang that would enjoy considerable success over the coming decade. Ronnie Harkai returned to record cuts on the second album Album #2, along with Ricky Baker.

A cover of the Isley Brothers' "Respectable" from their second album, Album #2, reached #15 in late August 1966. "Respectable" had been performed by the band during their earlier years as the Starfires.

A single by outside songwriters, "Help Me Girl" (from The Outsiders In

The Outsiders In

The Outsiders In – also known as simply In or In! – is the third studio album by the Outsiders. It is the first album released by the band that did not make the Billboard charts.-Release data:...

) had to compete with a version released in the same time period by the Animals

The Animals

The Animals were an English music group of the 1960s formed in Newcastle upon Tyne during the early part of the decade, and later relocated to London...

. By some accounts, the Animals had already recorded their version, although they assured them this was not the case. The Outsiders' version peaked at #37. They recorded another track by the same songwriters for their third album, but it was not released as a single. The song, "Bend Me, Shape Me

Bend Me, Shape Me

"Bend Me, Shape Me" is a song written by Scott English and Larry Weiss. It was first recorded by The Outsiders as a track on their album The Outsiders In in 1966...

", became a major hit on both sides of the Atlantic

Atlantic Ocean

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 in early 1968 when it was covered

Cover 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...

 by the American Breed in the USA and by Amen Corner

Amen Corner (band)

Amen Corner were a successful Welsh rock group, formed in late 1966 in Cardiff, Wales.-Career:The band was named after The Amen Corner, a weekly disc spin at the Victoria Ballroom in Cardiff, Wales, where every Sunday night Dr...

 in the UK.

After Mert Madsen left the Outsiders to get married, two other ex-Starfires, Walter Nims and Richard D'Amato, plus Richie D'Angelo on drums joined the band. Other session players were brought in to beef up the band's recordings, among them drummer Hal Blaine

Hal Blaine

Hal Blaine is an American drummer and session musician. He is most known for his work with the Wrecking Crew in California. Blaine played on numerous hits by popular groups, including Elvis Presley, John Denver, the Ronettes, Simon & Garfunkel, the Carpenters, the Beach Boys, Nancy Sinatra, and...

 and bassist Carol Kaye

Carol Kaye

Carol Kaye is an American musician, best known as one of the most prolific and widely heard bass guitarists in history, playing on an estimated 10,000 recording sessions in a 55 year career....

 of the Wrecking Crew

The Wrecking Crew (music)

The Wrecking Crew was a nickname coined by the drummer Hal Blaine after the fact for a group of session musicians in Los Angeles, California, who earned wide acclaim in the 1960s. They backed dozens of popular singers, and were one of the most successful "groups" of studio musicians in music history...

; also, some recordings were produced by Richard Delvy

Richard Delvy

Richard Delvy was an American drummer who played with The Bel-Airs and The Challengers. He also worked as a composer, music manager and producer. He owned the rights to several iconic surf and rock songs including "Wipe Out", "Mr. Moto" and "Chick-A-Boom "...

, who had worked with Sonny and Cher. Joe Kelley (no relation to Chet Kelley), lead guitarist for the Shadows of Knight, made a guest appearance on the 1967 single "Gotta Leave Us Alone".

Capitol

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...

 gave tentative approval for a fourth album, which was to have been named after this single, Leave Us Alone. However, the project was abandoned midway through, in favor of a faux live album called Happening Live!

Happening Live!

Happening Live! is the fourth album by the Outsiders. Although represented as being a live album, in actuality crowd noises and song introductions were added to studio recordings.-Release data:...

, where crowd noises plus song and bandmember introductions by Sonny Geraci were added to stripped-down studio renditions of older recordings, along with some recordings by the new line-up. Not long thereafter, the group disbanded.

The Outsiders were one of the early white American soul-influenced bands. In fact, the band's "Lonely Man" was bootlegged by a small British label and released in the UK, miscredited to Northern Soul

Northern soul

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged from the British mod scene, initially in northern England in the late 1960s. Northern soul mainly consists of a particular style of black American soul music based on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the mid-1960s Tamla Motown sound...

 band the Detroit Shakers and retitled "Help Me Find My Way." The sound they first created, combining Mersey Rock & Motown, can be felt in the later hits of the Buckinghams

The Buckinghams

The Buckinghams are an American Sunshine Pop band from Chicago, Illinois. They formed in 1966 and went on to become one of the top selling acts of 1967. The band dissolved in 1970 but reformed in 1980 and continue to tour throughout the United States....

 and Chicago

Chicago (band)

Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...

. Jim Guercio, who would manage both of these Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 groups, had toured with the Outsiders as a musician on the Gene Pitney Caravan

Gene Pitney

Eugene Francis Alan Pitney, known as Gene Pitney , was an American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the...

.

Post break-up

In 1970, Sonny Geraci organized a new band in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 that included Walter Nims and released two singles under the name "the Outsiders featuring Sonny Geraci"; on the 45 label, the "O" in Outsiders was a peace symbol

Peace symbol

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. Meanwhile, King was still heading a band called the Outsiders back in Cleveland, and this band also released a single as "the Outsiders (featuring Jon Simonell)"; Simonell was the lead singer who had replaced Geraci. King won a lawsuit in 1970 about the ownership of the name. Geraci's band name was then changed to Climax

Climax (band)

Climax was an American band formed in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, most noted for their 1971-1972 hit song "Precious and Few," which peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on Cashbox magazine's Top 100 singles chart...

 (see article) and later scored a #3 hit in 1972 with "Precious and Few", a song written by former Outsiders lead guitarist Walter Nims.

Geraci left the music business in 1980 and spent about five years in sales

Sales

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 in his family's home improvement

Home improvement

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 business. In about 1985, he began appearing with several other mid-1960s bands as "oldies" acts and continues to appear in live concerts to this day. Along the way, he has released a handful of solo CDs. Despite the earlier lawsuit about the name, Sonny Geraci

Sonny Geraci

Sonny Geraci is an American musician and singer, best known as the former lead singer of musical groups The Outsiders and Climax.Geraci first became known as the original lead vocalist with The Outsiders, a band from Cleveland, Ohio...

 began touring in 2007 as Sonny Geraci and the Outsiders.

The most recent album by the Outsiders, called 30 Years Live was released in 1996 and reissued in 2006; only two of the original members, King and Nims were on board. The performances were taken from two live concerts in 1991 in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

 and Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas, Nevada

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.

King died aged 68, on April 23, 2011, in a Wickliffe, Ohio

Wickliffe, Ohio

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 nursing home. He had suffered from multiple health problems and had been at the Wickliffe Country Place nursing home since he fell and injured himself in August. King's death was announced by Kevin King, one of his sons, and confirmed by the nursing home.

Legacy

"Time Won't Let Me" is still prominent on oldies

Oldies

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 radio playlists, but this has created a false image of the Outsiders as a "one hit wonder" band. The song was also included on the box set inspired by the classic garage rock

Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

 compilation album

Compilation album

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 Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era is a compilation album of American garage rock singles released in the mid- to late 1960s. It was assembled by Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra Records, and Lenny Kaye, later lead guitarist for the Patti Smith Group...

. Another song, "I'm Not Trying to Hurt You" was included in Volume 9 of the Pebbles series

Pebbles series

Pebbles is an extensive series of compilation albums in both LP and CD formats that have been issued on several record labels, though mostly by AIP...

. Bill Scheft

Bill Scheft

Bill Scheft is an American comedy writer and novelist. He is best known for being a staff writer for David Letterman since 1991, during which time he has been nominated for 15 Emmy awards. He ran a weekly humor column "The Show" in Sports Illustrated from 2002 to 2005...

's novel about a garage rock band being rediscovered by record collectors and then attempting to recapture their glory days as the bandmembers approached the age of 50 was called Time Won't Let Me.

Reissues

Although the original Outsiders LPs have never been individually reissued as CDs, the band's four Capitol albums have been released on CD as "two-fer" packages on Liberty Bell Records, along with bonus tracks. Rhino Records released Best of the Outsiders in 1985, while Collectables Records

Collectables Records

Collectables is a reissue record label founded in 1980 by Jerry Greene. Greene was previously associated with New York City's Times Square Record Shop, Philadelphia's Record Museum retail chain, and the Lost Nite and Crimson record labels....

 has also released a Capitol Collectors Series retrospective album on CD.

The Starfires/The Outsiders 1965 ("Time Won't Let Me" Single)

• Tom King, rhythm guitar, tenor saxophone, vocals
• Sonny Geraci, lead vocals
• Mert Madsen, bass guitar, harmonica
• Al Austin, lead guitar
• Ronnie Harkai
  Ronald Harkai
  Ronald Harkai , often known by the nickname Ronnie, is a musician best known as the drummer on the top-five single “Time Won’t Let Me,” by Cleveland-based rock band The Outsiders....
  
   drums

The Outsiders (Basic Line-Up)

• Tom King, rhythm guitar, tenor saxophone, vocals
• Sonny Geraci, lead vocals
• Mert Madsen, bass guitar, harmonica
• Bill Bruno, lead guitar
• Rick Biagiola drums

The Outsiders (1967 "Live" Album)

• Tom King, rhythm guitar, tenor saxophone, vocals
• Sonny Geraci, lead vocals
• Richard D'Amato, bass guitar
• Walter Nims, lead guitar
• Richie D'Angelo, drums

The Outsiders (1991 "30 Years Live" Album)

• Tom King, guitar, background vocals
• Walter Nims, guitar, background vocals
• Rob Mitchell, vocals, bass guitar
• Eddie Soto, vocals
• Ted Sikora, guitar, background vocals
• Dave Hershy, horns
• Joe Potnicky, keyboards
• Dan King, drums
• Rusty Schmidt, vocals
• Nick Farcas, keyboards
• Scott Ingram, bass guitar

Initial releases by the original band

• "Time Won't Let Me" b/w "Was It Really Real" – Capitol #5573; rel. 2/1966 (#5), yellow/orange swirl label
• "Girl In Love" b/w "What Makes You So Bad, You Weren't Brought Up That Way" – Capitol #5646; rel. 5/1966 (#21)
• "Respectable" b/w "Lost In My World" – Capitol #5701; rel. 8/1966 (#15)
• "Help Me Girl" b/w "You Gotta Look" – Capitol #5759; rel. 10/1966 (#37)
• "I'll Give You Time To Think It Over" b/w "I'm Not Trying To Hurt You" – Capitol #5843; rel. 3/1967 (#118)

Picture sleeve erroneously shows B-side title as "I Don't Want To Hurt You"

• "Gotta Leave Us Alone" b/w "I Just Can't See You Anymore – Capitol #P-5892, promo; pale green label
• "Gotta Leave Us Alone" b/w "I Just Can't See You Anymore – Capitol #5892; rel. 5/1967 (#121)
• "I'll See You In The Summertime" b/w "And Now You Want My Sympathy" – Capitol #5955; rel. 7/1967
• "Little Bit Of Lovin'" b/w "I Will Love You" – Capitol #P-2055, promo; pale green label
• "Little Bit Of Lovin'" b/w "I Will Love You" – Capitol #2055; rel. 12/1967 (#117)
• "We Ain't Gonna Make It" b/w "Oh How It Hurts" – Capitol #P-2216, promo; pale green label
• "We Ain't Gonna Make It" b/w "Oh How It Hurts" – Capitol #2216; rel. 6/1968

Reissues and releases outside the U.S.

• "Time Won't Let Me" b/w "Was It Really Real" – Capitol #5573, red and orange label with target logo
• "Time Won't Let Me" b/w "Girl in Love" – Capitol/Star-line #K-6165 (two-sided hit reissue), violet label
• "Time Won't Let Me" b/w "Girl in Love" – Capitol/Star-line #6165 (two-sided hit reissue), red and white label
• "Time Won't Let Me" b/w "Girl in Love" – Capitol/Star-line #6165 (two-sided hit reissue), tan label
• "Time Won't Let Me" b/w "Was It Really Real" – Capitol #K 23187; rel. 1966 in West Germany
  West Germany
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  , violet label
• "Respectable" b/w "Lost In My World" – Jolly #J-20387; rel. in 1966 in Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  

The Outsiders feat. Jon Simonell

• "Tinker Tailor" b/w "Oh, You're Not So Pretty" – Kapp #K-2104; rel. 1970

The Outsiders/Climax

• "Lovin' You" b/w "Think I'm Fallin'"
• "Changes" b/w "Lost In My World" – Bell #B-904; rel. 9/1970 (#107)

EPs

• "Time Won't Let Me" and "Listen People" b/w "Girl In Love" and "Rockin' Robin" - Capitol #EAP4-2501; rel. 1966 in Mexico
  Mexico
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
  
  , 7"
• "Listen People" and "Keep on Running" b/w "Time Won't Let Me" and "Maybe Baby" – Capitol #EAP-4-2501; rel. 1967 in Brazil
  Brazil
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
  
  , 7"
• "Gotta Leave Us Alone" and "I Just Can't See You Anymore" b/w "I'll See You In The Summertime" and "And Now You Want My Sympathy" - Capitol #EAP1-20984; rel. 1967 in Mexico
  Mexico
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
  
  , 7"
• "Keep on Running" and "My Girl" b/w "Time Won't Let Me" and "Was it Really Real" – American #TK-45, black and yellow label; 7"

Studio albums

• Time Won't Let Me
  Time Won't Let Me (album)
  Time Won't Let Me is the first studio album by the Outsiders. It was named after the band's early 1966 break-out single, "Time Won't Let Me".-Release data:...
  
  – Capitol #T-2501/#ST-2501; rel. 5/1966 (#37)
• Album #2 – Capitol #T-2568/#ST-2568; rel. 9/1966 (#90)
• The Outsiders In
  The Outsiders In
  The Outsiders In – also known as simply In or In! – is the third studio album by the Outsiders. It is the first album released by the band that did not make the Billboard charts.-Release data:...
  
  – Capitol #T-2636/#ST-2636; rel. 1/1967 (Did not chart)
• Leave Us Alone – Capitol (No catalogue number, cancelled before release. However, a tentative album cover slick for this release is shown in the "collage" of The Outsiders' "Capitol Collectors Series" CD booklet)

Live albums

• Happening Live!
  Happening Live!
  Happening Live! is the fourth album by the Outsiders. Although represented as being a live album, in actuality crowd noises and song introductions were added to studio recordings.-Release data:...
  
  – Capitol #T-2745/#ST-2745; rel. 8/1967 (#103)
• 30 Years Live – Collectables; rel. 1996

Reissues and releases outside the U.S.

• Happening Live!
  Happening Live!
  Happening Live! is the fourth album by the Outsiders. Although represented as being a live album, in actuality crowd noises and song introductions were added to studio recordings.-Release data:...
  
  – Capitol #POP 672; rel. 1985 in Mexico
  Mexico
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
  
  
• Time Won't Let Me
  Time Won't Let Me (album)
  Time Won't Let Me is the first studio album by the Outsiders. It was named after the band's early 1966 break-out single, "Time Won't Let Me".-Release data:...
  
  and Album #2 (plus bonus tracks); two-fer CD reissue – Liberty Bell #PCD 4365 (unofficial disc)
• The Outsiders In! and Happening Live!
  Happening Live!
  Happening Live! is the fourth album by the Outsiders. Although represented as being a live album, in actuality crowd noises and song introductions were added to studio recordings.-Release data:...
  
  (plus bonus tracks); two-fer CD reissue – Liberty Bell #PCD 4366 (unofficial disc)

Retrospective albums

• Capitol Collectors Series – Capitol; rel. 1991
• Best of the Outsiders – Rhino #RNLP 70132 / #RNC 70132; rel. 1986
• Collectors Series – Collectables; rel. 1996

Compilation albums

• Time Won't Let Me

1. Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968
   Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968
   Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era is a compilation album of American garage rock singles released in the mid- to late 1960s. It was assembled by Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra Records, and Lenny Kaye, later lead guitarist for the Patti Smith Group...
   
   (box set)
2. Nuggets from Nuggets (CD)
3. Nuggets, Volume 3 (LP)
4. Pride from Cleveland Past (LP)

"Time Won't Let Me" has also been included on many other compilation albums that are aimed at mainstream audiences; Allmusic lists more than 40 such albums.

• I'm Not Trying to Hurt You

1. Pebbles, Volume 9
   Pebbles, Volume 9 (LP)
   Pebbles, Volume 9 is a compilation album among the LP's in the Pebbles series. The music on this album has no relation to Pebbles, Volume 9 that was released on CD many years later.-Release data:...
   
   (LP)

• Lost in My World

1. Nuggets, Volume 4 (LP)

• And Now You Want My Sympathy

1. Psychedelic Archives – USA Garage, Volume 1 (Cassette)

External links

• Yahoo music biography
• Tom King And The Outsiders at Facebook