Shake Some Action by Flaming Groovies

Shake Some Action, the Flamin' Groovies' fourth album, came out on Sire in June 1976, and it's the record where these San Francisco lifers finally caught the sound they'd been chasing. Roy Loney had walked in 1971, Chris Wilson stepped up to co-lead alongside Cyril Jordan, and the band's heart swung hard toward British Invasion power pop. After years of stray singles on United Artists, Sire gave them a home, and Dave Edmunds hauled them off to Rockfield Studios in Wales to get it on tape.

What came back is power pop polished to a mirror shine: chiming guitars, tight harmonies and a bright, driving beat, with George Alexander and drummer David Wright in the lineup. The title track, whose name was lifted from dialogue in the 1965 movie None but the Brave, grew into a power pop anthem, and Greil Marcus later gave it a place in his book The History of Rock and Roll in Ten Songs.

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