This week, the week of April 25-29, 2016, we will look at songs from real bands...for fake bands.

We call it:  "Don't look behind the curtain..."

April 25, 2016

Throughout musical history there have been those who never got their due credit.  Either they slaved away as session musicians making the stars sound good but never seeing the spotlight or the money from it, or they had their music used by other bands.

Sometimes their music was created to make a fake band.

These are some of those.

Formed in the 1970's Beaver Brown had some local and wider spread success with their music but didn't hit the big time until their songs were featured in a movie about a completely made up group.

John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band's song "On The Dark Side" barely cracked the top 100 (#64) when released as "Eddie & The Cruisers" but when reissued under their own name went all the way to #7 in October of 1984.

They had one more top 100 song chart with "Tender Years" reaching #35 in December of 1984.

~ Glenn