I too was only a kid in the 60's. All the music we listened to seemed to come out of the little AM radio. Currently in the process of downloading songs by year from the 60's, and came across two bands that I totally forgot about. From 1967, remember THE STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK with "Incense and Peppermints"? And from 1968, the group SPIRIT with their one hit wonder "I got a Line on You" and 1969, the TEE SHOTS with "My bella amie"
Yeah but Spirit was really a pretty good and serious band and put some very good but very different albums.
Their guitar player, Randy California, was discovered by Jimi Hendrix in New York City before Hendrix made it big, I think it was at Mannys or Sam Ash, where California was working or just happened to be there. Jimi asked him to join his band, (which didn't really exist at that point), and play with him at the Cafe Wah in the village, which he did and also talked his parents on Long Island into letting him continue.
California wasn't his real last name but Jimi called him that because there were two Randy's in the band, so he called one Texas, the bass player and the other California. When Chas Chandler was taking Jimi over to London, Jimi wanted Randy California to go with him but Chandler said he was too young. He was just sixteen at the time. That Randy later changed his name legally to California and went on to be a founder of Spirit. He died in Hawaii saving his son from a rip tide in 1997. His son survived. And so it goes....