Season 1 Episode 6 - Sid Herring

My guest this week is Sid Herring of the Gants. The Gants were a great garage band from Greenwood, Mississippi originally known as the Kingsman. The Kingsman began with Sid Herring & Johnny Freeman in 1963 playing R&B covers and the type of instrumentals inspired by The Ventures. For a short period, Sid Herring lived in Memphis and the Gants recorded there. The British were invading, and Sid Herring was getting to be well known as the local singer who not only resembled Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits, but his singing voice was compared to that of John Lennon. To add to that British Invasion connection the Gants opened for the Animals 1965 Florida tour.