As Kasey Kasem used to say..... "There's a FAS-cinating story behind that song. And we'll get to it... ...................... in just a minute."
Lama (Thanks, Vince) By 1966 they started to call themselves the Left Banke. In addition to > Mike and Steve, they included Rick Brand on lead guitar, Tom Finn on > bass, and drummer George Cameron. Finn brought his girlfriend to the > studio one day when the group had assembled for a practice session. She > was a 5' 6" teenager with platinum blond hair. Mike Brown was infatuated > with her the instant he saw her. Her name was Renee Fladen. ....... > Harry took the song to ten different record companies before Smash > Records picked it up. It entered the pop charts in the Fall of 1966 and > remained there for ten weeks, peaking at number five. Early the next > year the Left Banke followed up with another song written by Mike Brown > called Pretty Ballerina, and it reached number fifteen. ............. > As for Renee, she moved to Boston with her family shortly after the Left > Banke recorded Walk Away Renee, and no one in the group ever saw her > again.
