title: The Palm Beach Band Boys
text: # The Palm Beach Band Boys
  
  The Palm Beach Band Boys was a studio recording group ostensibly assembled by RCA Victor to capitalize on the success of The New Vaudeville Band's hit single, "Winchester Cathedral". They performed in a style for which the New Vaudeville Band's promoters coined the term, newstalgia, a kind of faux 1920s/1930s sound, featuring nasal vocals, banjo, brass, electric guitar, rock drums, and bassoon. (Mort Goode uses the term in his liner notes for their first album.) According to a December 1966 TIME article, the vocalist is actually "an RCA executive who croons while holding his nose."
  
  Their album Winchester Cathedral peaked at #149 on the Billboard 200. Their song "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" peaked at #25 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
  
  ## Discography
  
  ### Winchester Cathedral
  
  Their first LP (Mono LPM-3734/Stereo LSP-3734), Winchester Cathedral, recorded in RCA Victor's Studios A and B in New York City was released in 1966. It featured arrangements by Billy Mure and was produced by Danny Davis.
  
  **A side**
  
  * Winchester Cathedral
  * A Little Bit Independent
  * Boo-Hoo
  * Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella
  * I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
  
  **B side**
  
  * Bend It
  * It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane
  * I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
  * Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider
  * Gypsy Caravan
  
  ### The Palm Beach Band Boys Strike Again
  
  A subsequent album (LSP-3808) was released in 1967, The Palm Beach Band Boys Strike Again.
  
  **Songs**
  
  * The Object of My Affection
  * Josephine
  * Me and My Shadow
  * At Sundown
  * You Tell Me Your Dream
  * Wildflower
  * Strangers in the Night
  * Mean To Me
  * I Don't Know Why
  * I'll Get By
  * Suzette
  