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<SPAN class="caption">Above: Promo shot, 1961, Dayton, Ohio. 
L-R: Phil Ackerman, Bill Trimmer, Jim Colegrove, Teddy Grills, Dick Fischer (drums).</SPAN></TD>
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<DIV align=left><SPAN class="caption">Above: At the Avondale Club, Dayton, Ohio, 1960.<br>
L-R: Bill Trimmer, Dick Fischer, Teddy Grills, Jim Colegrove, Phil Ackerman.</SPAN></div><P>
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<U>TEDDY AND THE ROUGH RIDERS</U> began in Fairborn, Ohio in the spring of 1958. This rock &#8217;n&#8217; roll band was originally called 
The Teddy Bears but for obvious reasons (Phil Spector&#8217;s group) had to change the name. Teddy Grills middle name was Roosevelt 
and he was doing most of the singing. That fall they began calling the group
Teddy and the Rough Riders at <A HREF="colegrov.html">Jim Colegrove</A>&#8217;s suggestion.<br><br>

 The original band members were: Teddy Grills, vocals and guitar, Dick Fischer, drums, Jim Colegrove, lead guitar and vocals. Later 
additions were: Phil Ackerman, bongos, piano and organ; Bill Trimmer, bass and Bob Brane, saxophone. There were only two other members, ever, in this band. Dick Fischer was replaced in &#8217;62 by Les Sayre on drums and Bill Trimmer was replaced by Denny Boyd 
on bass in &#8217;63. Both Dick &amp; Bill enlisted in the Navy.<br><br>
 The band got its first break when it began playing at record hops that radio station <a href="http://www.homestead.com/wingradio/files/index.htm">WING (Dayton, Ohio) disc jockeys were doing. 
The DJ&#8217;s (Jim Smith, Lou Swanson, Stan Scott, Gene &quot;By Golly&quot; Barry, Bill Henry)</a> promoted their hops on the radio and the Rough Riders became a very popular band. No other band was doing this in 
the  area in 1958. This set a trend for other groups to do likewise.<br><br>

 As a result of the DJ connection the band met Texan, Bob Holliday in 1959. <a href="wing_charts.html">Bob was a new DJ at WING</a> that fall and took interest in 
the group.  He became their manager. Bob took the Rough Riders to King Studios in Cincinnati to record in 1960. He got Eddie Smith to engineer.  Eddie had worked on all the early James Brown sessions. By the fall 
of that year he had a deal with Jack Sanders of Louisville, Kentucky. Jack was a DJ at WAKY and had started a label 
called Tilt. He had issued only one single on the label at that time. Both Bob and Jack thought the release of a Rough Riders single 
could sell 
records quickly and get enough notice to get national distribution. The plans were drawn up and by the time <I>Tomahawk /
Thunderhead</I> was out for a few weeks, London Records picked up the Tilt label for national distribution.<br><br>

 The record, Tilt 778, became a regional smash hit, was advertised in Billboard, got excellent reviews but failed to become a national hit. 
In 1961, Bob Holliday started his own label, <a href="http://www.thecoolgroove.com/huron_records.html">Huron</a>, and the Rough Riders next two singles were issued on that label. 
The first was Huron 22002, <I>Pathfinder / A Dream Come True</I>. Both were instrumentals like the Tilt sides and 
both tunes were written by Jim Colegrove, as were the Tilt sides. The next single was titled <I>Money 
&amp; Gold, Parts 1 &amp; 2</I>, written by Teddy Grills. Both records were local hits. National distribution for Huron product 
was handled by King Records which was where all the Rough Riders masters were recorded.<br><br>

During the early and mid-1960s Teddy and the Rough Riders played at hops, dances and stage shows throughout Ohio and Indiana, appeared on radio, television and backed up touring recording artists of the day such as: Chuck Sims, Terry Redman, Charles Brown, Janie Grant, Freddie Cannon, The Duprees, Jackie Dee, Johnny Tillotson, Bobby Vee, Charlie Rich, Bobb B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, The Chiffons, The Dovells and The Shangri-Las. They appeared at <em>The Biggest Hop in Dayton</em> held every Sunday by Bob Holliday at The Avondale Club featuring touring stars like Jack Scott, Larry Verne, The Five Keys and Lenny Welch. They played the teen hops at LeSourdsville Lake in Stardust Garden. They made journeys to Kentucky, West Virginia, Detroit and even got as far as Milwaukee for a gig that was aborted because the sax player, Bob Brane, was pulled off the bandstand for being under 21 (He wasn&#8217;t the only one).<br><br>

 The Rough Riders recorded next in 1963 for Junior Achievement of Dayton in conjunction with radio station WING. They wanted 
the Rough Riders to do one side of an LP and a folk group, The Guardsmen, to do the other side. The Guardsmen 
were from Fairborn and were a part of what now is commonly referred to as &quot;the great folk music scare&quot; in the early sixties. The 
resulting LP was called <I>Swingin&#8217; With WING</I> on the MegaCity label.<br><br>

 In 1964 Jim Colegrove and Phil Ackerman went on active duty in the Army reserve and the band ceased its activities for about five 
months. That fall the band re-formed and again played together until the group finally split in the autumn of 1965. Jim Colegrove, Phil Ackerman, Bob Brane and Denny Boyd along with drummer Doug Porter, former drummer with Sonny Flaharty&#8217;s band, the Young Americans, formed a new group called The Knights (later called Thee Rubber Band). They began playing five nights a week at &quot;Little Mickey&#8217;s&quot;, a favorite local club in Dayton on East Fifth Street. This group dissolved early in 1967.<br><br>

 Teddy &amp; the Rough Riders was an extremely popular band at the peak of its career. It was not uncommon for the band to be mobbed for autographs by their fans 
in those days. You could bet the dance hall would be full anywhere in the Miami Valley area if they were appearing. Their records continue to be reissued 45 years after the group&#8217;s demise. See the reissue list below.<br>

<P>Jim Colegrove continues to perform and record today with his band <a href="http://www.lostcountry.com">Lost Country</a> as well as producing recordings for other artists. Phil Ackerman still plays keyboards in a group in the Charlotte, NC area. Teddy Grills still lives in Fairborn. Les Sayre was killed in action in the Vietnam War.  Denny Boyd passed away February 2009.<br><br>

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<U><B>Teddy &amp; The Rough Riders Discography</B></U>
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Singles:<br>
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<a href="http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/pics/d20/20274.htm">Tilt 778  <I> - Tomahawk</I>/<I>Thunderhead</I> - 1960</a>
<P><a href="http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/pics/d20/20275.htm">
 Huron 22002 - <I>Pathfinder</I>/<I>A Dream Come True</I> - 1961
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<P><a href="http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/pics/d20/20276.htm">Huron 22007 -  <I>Money and Gold, Part 
I</I>/<I>Money and Gold,  Part  II</I> - 1961</a>
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<P><a href="http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/pics/ps/ps20282.htm">LP   -  Mega City 1410 -  <I> Swingin&#8217; With 
WING</I>, Side 2, 1963</a>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
<a href="http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/pics/d20/20282.htm"><I>Distant Thunder<br>
Danny Boy<br>
Respectable<br>
Harlem Nocturne<br>
Hey, That&#8217;s My Baby<br>
You Drive Too Fast<br>
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<B><U>Reissues</U></B>
<P>Single - <a href="http://www.powerweb.net/meanmountainmusic/">Mean Mountain Music MM-1420 - 1981</a><br>
 <I>Tomahawk/Thunderhead</I>
<P>EP -  Rough SP69 - 1991<br><I>Pathfinder/Tomahawk/                                 
Thunderhead</I><P>
LP - Fifty Eight LP 101 - <em>Tomahawk</em> - 1980<br>
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CD - Incognito Records (Germany) - 1999<br>
<em>High School Rumble Vol.1</em> (various artists)<br>
Contains: <I>Tomahawk - Thunderhead</I><br>
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CD - CTI-006 - Canetoad International (Australia) - 2002<br>
<em>Blast From The Past - Vol. 2 - Rockin&#8217; Ronnie&#8217;&#8217;s Wild Instrumental Party</em> (34 tracks -various artists)<br>
Contains: <I>Tomahawk - Thunderhead</I><br>
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CD - Sundazed SC 11146 - 2004<br>
<a href="http://www.sundazed.com"><em>Dancehall Stringbusters!</em></a><br>
Contains: <em>Thunderhead</em> / <em>Money &amp; Gold (Part 2)</em> / <em>Path Finder</em><br>
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CD - Buffalo Bop Bb-CD 55174 - 2005<br>
<a href="http://dee-jay-records.de/New_Releases/Bb-CD_55172-180/body_bb-cd_55172-180.html"><em>Strictly Instrumental - Vol. 8</em></a> -  Cover Shot!<br>
Contains: <em>Thunderhead</em><br>
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CD - Canadian CAN-2306 CD - 2005<br>
<em>Rare Instrumentals - Volume 6</em> - Cover Shot!<br>
<a href="http://www.deadog.com/page/DDR/CTGY/ts">(Available from Dead Dog Records)</a><br>
Contains: <em>Money &amp; Gold Pt. 2</em> / <em>Pathfinder</em> / <em>Thunderhead</em> / <em>Tomahawk</em> / <em>A Dream Come True</em><br>
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CD - Sello / Marca - 2007<br>
<em>Nasty Rockabilly, Volume 12</em><br>
Contains: <em>Thunderhead</em><br>
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</TD><td valign=top><b><u>Sites on the Web that have listed Rough Rider records for sale:</u></b><br>
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<li><a href="http://www.tefteller.com/">John Tefteller&#8217;s</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.powerweb.net/meanmountainmusic/">Mean Mountain Music</a></li></ul>
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<li><SPAN class="maroon_bold"><a href="rufrider2.html">More Photos of Teddy and the Rough Riders</a></SPAN><br>
<li><SPAN class="maroon_bold"><a href="wing_charts.html">1960 WING Hits of the Day</a></SPAN><br>
<li><SPAN class="maroon_bold"><a href="colegrov.html">Jim Colegrove</a></SPAN><br>
<li><SPAN class="maroon_bold"><a href="http://www.lostcountry.com">Lost Country&reg;  (Jim Colegrove&#8217;s current band)</a></SPAN><br>
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