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    The Throb

    Australian Modbeat group. Sydney, Australia 1965-1967 consisting of John Bell (vocals, guitar, harmonica) Denny Burgess (bass, vocals) Peter Figures (drums) Martin Van Wyk (lead guitar).

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    The Throb are mostly famous for their better-than-the-Stones cover version of "Fortune Teller". A song written by Allen Toussaint under the pseudonym, Naomi Neville.

    Sydney's Throb were a garage-style R&B band with a wilder image than their contemporaries and label-mates The Easybeats.

    The Throb's history went back to Geoff Doyle & The Resonettes, yet another Aussie band that started out playing surf or Shadows-style instrumentals. The Resonettes recorded instrumentals for the undefined label, then released two singles for undefined as The No Names before signing with undefined and becoming The Throb.

    Like fellow Albert artists The Easybeats, The Throb's members included Dutch and British immigrants.

    The Throb are less known for their transformation of the folk song "Black" into a violent feedback-laden Gothic song. The follow-up to The Throb's 1966 hit Fortune Teller. "Black" is an R&B reworking of Black Is The Colour (Of My True Love's Hair), a traditional bittersweet song.

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