Who Were The Cimmy-Five?

wand143 · by **wand143** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:43 pm

I'm hoping someone out there can help me with a mystery: a couple years ago, I purchased a 45RPM acetate by a group called The Cimmy-Five; it features a cover version of "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" on one side and what seems to be an original, "Can't Cha Tell", on the other side. The only information on the label is the typed song titles and artist name - there is no indication of which studio cut this nor the general geographic where it may have been recorded. My only clue is that the dealer was from the Rockford, Illinois area but even my Chicago-area discography offers up no clues. It sounds like a typical four-man rock group circa 1963-1964 with a nice melodic (Fender?) guitar as the lead. The vocals on both sides are pretty good ("Keep Your Hand.." actually features a falsetto vocal on the chorus! pretty hilarious!) and overall it has a good "Midwestern" sound to it. Any ideas who these guys were? Googol searches offered up no clues.

ks45 · by **ks45** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:51 pm

Lots of groups or solo artists got as far as the "making an acetate/demo stage" but this doesnt mean that those songs ever were commercially released.
Its possible that The Cimmy Five paid for this acetate to be made and then took it all around town trying to get a deal without any success.
I havent been able to find The Cimmy Five yet as a released band.

by **Joe_DS** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:05 am

Out of curiosity, I gave the Google News Archive a quick search and found a few references to the group.

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q= ... 8&oe=UTF-8

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Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Newspaper) - March 18, 1966, Oshkosh,...
Subscription - Oshkosh Daily Northwestern - NewspaperArchive - Mar 18, 1966 ... Television Stars you'll always have a Gay time at BERNIE'S 1514 Oregon Street Oshkosh TONIGHT AMD-SATURDAY' "CIMMY five" NIGHTLY CECELIA the go go SUN. ...

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Manitowoc Herald Times (Newspaper) - December 18, 1965, Manitowoc,...
Subscription - Manitowoc Herald Times - NewspaperArchive - Dec 18, 1965 8-T-HAamtowoc (Wfc.) Herald-Times Two Rivers Reporter, Sat., SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal SOME-THINS 1B4.4 ME ARE INDIANS AROUND PRISCILLA'S POP fly Al ...

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Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Newspaper) - April 15, 1966, Oshkosh,...
Subscription - Oshkosh Daily Northwestern - NewspaperArchive - Apr 15, 1966 21 and 73, WAUTOMA MISTY the GO-GO NIGHTLY TONIGHT the RADICALS SATURDAY night CIMMY five three OAKS BAR Open 3 PM Daily 2002 Algoma Blvd. TtnSgbf I special ...

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Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter (Newspaper) - May 13, 1966, Fond Du...
Subscription - Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter - NewspaperArchive - May 13, 1966 SATURDAY, May 14th cow Palace Fond Du Lac Fairgrounds 2 GREAT BANDS Tops In Entertainment "Lord BUXTON" A Band that really Rolls "CIMMY five" Friday, ...

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Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Newspaper) - January 21, 1966, Oshkosh,...
Subscription - Oshkosh Daily Northwestern - NewspaperArchive - Jan 21, 1966 ... To TRY Our DELICIOUS FISH, CHICKEN, Shrimp Every FRIDAY Hot Beef SANDWICHES at All Times CIMMY FIVE PLUS MISTY The Go-Go GIRL first Time In Oshkosh! ...

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Manitowoc Herald Times (Newspaper) - December 17, 1965, Manitowoc,...
Subscription - Manitowoc Herald Times - NewspaperArchive - Dec 17, 1965 12-M-Monitowoc (WIU Hwdd-Times Two Rivers Reporter, Fri.f Dec. Plan to Form 'Black Panther' Party in South Xegroes have gained a voting majority. ...

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Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Newspaper) - March 16, 1966, Oshkosh,...
Subscription - Oshkosh Daily Northwestern - NewspaperArchive - Mar 16, 1966 SAT "CIMMY five" PLUS CECELIA the GO-GO NIGHTLY THREE OAKS BAR i Open 3 PM Daily 2002 Algomc IM. A GENERAL ordinance of the City of Oshkosh amend- ing ...

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All of these sites charge you to look at their archives. Your best bet might be to see if your local (major city) public library keeps any archives of major Mid-western newspapers. It seems they were popular from about 1965-1966. Since this seems to be a local group from the Midwest, there may not be much about them, but perhaps they are identified by their names in some of the ads, or perhaps some local newspaper did a write-up about them.

wand143 · by **wand143** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:16 pm

Joe, you were a huge help - THANKS!!!! I have to admit that the last time I tried the search was a couple years ago and since it was done by someone else, apparently it wasn't as thorough an effort as yours was. So, at least I can narrow it down to the Oshkosh area and indicate its locality on the record sleeve. I appreciate it. (Glad I found this site by accident!)