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In 1967, the Human Beingz laid down such a tight, hard-groovin’ version of The Isley Brothers' “Nobody But Me” that it took weeks for most people to realize that the track was actually performed by a group of white guys from Youngstown, Ohio. In the meantime, intensive airplay on black R&B stations had helped break the record.

Formed in 1965 as The Human Beingz, they debuted on Gateway Records in February 1966 with a version of “Gloria,” but The Shadows Of Knight had just beaten them to the punch. During the next year or so, subsequent singles for small labels and an exciting live show helped establish the band's reputation. A traveling record exec was tipped off about them by a Youngstown record store clerk, and after checking them out at a local club called Mickey's Bar, he signed them to Capitol in mid-'67.

Nobody But Me was released in September of that year, at which time the group was pissed off to discover that, on the record label, Capitol had misspelled their name as Beinz -- as in the hippie term “be-in.” The new spelling stuck for their recording career, but in Youngstown, where they'd always been the biggest band in town, they stood staunchly by their original Beingz moniker.

Their records took off in Japan and in 1969 they toured Japan, where two albums were released, including a rare live recording.

Reprinted from “Optical Sound, The Technicolor Tales Behind The Numerous Nuggets” by Mike Stax
(Rhino Records CD “Nuggets - Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968”