The Stingers was just one of the pseudonyms by Los Angeles session guitarist Jerry Cole, who churned out numerous low-budget albums for Crown Records in the 1960s. He also recorded some LPs under his own name, including several surf albums for Capitol.
Cole played on countless records during the '60s, including such hits as the Byrds' Mr. Tambourine Man, Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walking and the Pet Sounds album by the Beach Boys.
Guitars a Go Go came out in 1964, passing largely unnoticed except by those of us who pawed the discount racks in supermarkets, drug stores and other places where one wouldn't normally shop for music.
007 Rides Again is typical of the tracks on the album (there was a Volume 2 of Guitars a Go Go in 1966) and despite the title it doesn't bear much resemblance to the James Bond soundtracks. It's closer to the popular surf guitar sound of the day than anything else.
Listen to, and download, 007 Rides Again from the link below. The MP3 is taken from a copy of the original Crown LP.
007 Rides Again
Fortunately much of Cole's '60s output is available on CD, including both volumes of Guitars a Go Go on a single CD from the Ace label in the U.K.
Cole, who died in 2008, is also well represented in the digital downloads sections of the major online merchants.
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