Little Willie & the Adolescents started life at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, in 1963, as the Starfires, a trio – Eric Shabacker (guitar, vocals), Tom McLaughlin (bass, vocals), and Berry Vaughan (drums, vocals) – doing a dance-oriented brand of pre-British Invasion rock & roll. They made their recording debut in 1964 on the Tener label (owned by Shabacker), and cut an album around that same time for the ORS label. By 1965, they had a pretty good following in the Orange County area adjacent to the college, and later moved their base of operations to Orlando…
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