1960s Pascagoula rock band's record sells for over $1,700 on eBay
Thursday, December 28, 2006
By BRAD CROCKER
The Mississippi Press

PASCAGOULA -- In 1966, when Charles Careno, Troy Parker, Mike Jackson and Gary Bardwell recorded a 45 RPM record while playing in their Pascagoula rock band, The Fugitives, they never dreamed that in 40 years, it would be worth anything.

Well, two days before Christmas, they learned that someone had bid $1,724 on eBay for a copy of the record, which contains the singles "No Tease" and "Lonely Girl."

The record has gone on to serve as part of the title for a compilation album of garage, punk and rock and roll bands that were never signed called, "Teenage Shutdown -- No Tease," which is the 12th installation of the Teenage Shutdown series.

Nineteen bands are listed on the compilation album, with "No Tease" as the first track, and a picture of The Fugitives, complete with their matching 1960s rock and roll apparel, is also the new album's cover art.

In their early teens, the four Pascagoula musicians went to Bardwell's house, where H.E. Parsley Jr. recorded the two songs on a small portable system in the living room.