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Xentel		.	Mark Lindsay
			"And Mark Lindsay is possibly better than before. The former leader of Paul Revere & the Raiders looks and sounds great and is a potent showman." …USA Today Mark Lindsay has sold over 50 million records . . . . the lead vocalist that you hear on all of the Raiders' hits, including 17 Top Forty favorites . . . Hit songs such as . . . . . . . Indian Reservation - a #1 joy which sold over 4 million copies! … Arizona …Kicks …Hungry …Good Thing …Louie Louie …Steppin' Out …Just Like Me …Let Me …Ups and Downs …Too Much Talk …Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon …Cinderella Sunshine …and many more! Mark Lindsay … known for a dynamic and entertaining stage show Mark Lindsay … a name, face, and voice well-known to the Baby Boomer generation, with an amazing 700+ network television appearances to his credit Mark Lindsay … enjoys working with the buyer and media to promote his shows: available for interviews by radio (live in-studio or remote, or by telephone in advance of the date), local television shows, print media. The Musical History…of Paul Revere & the Raiders…featuring Mark Lindsay 1961-1975 The first rock and roll group signed to Columbia Records, and the first group to bring Columbia a gold rock and roll record. According to Chuck Eddy, in "Stairway To Hell - The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe": "Ages before Subpop Records made the Great Northwest famous again, this Portland bunch rocked with more guts and gusto than Sound Garden and Mudhoney ever would." He ranked the Raiders' Greatest Hits as #33. According to Ken Barnes, in Phonograph Record Magazine (March 1973): "A group whose vast recording output turns out to be as solid a legacy of straight forward, exciting mid-sixties rock and roll as America produced in that illustrious era. "They came out of the Northwest playing in that region's dominant style as exemplified by the Wailers, Sonics, Kingsmen, and other local hotshots - raw, wild organ/sax-dominated versions of raunchy rock and roll and R & B records. Their first Jerden Records release was recorded live with Mark Lindsay displaying bombastic bull-throated vocal power. Similarly, their first Columbia LP, "Here They Come", sports ferocious live versions of "Money," "Louie Louie," "Do You Love Me," "You Can't Sit Down," "Big Boy Pete," and "Ooh Poo Pah Doo." The Raiders had been signed to Columbia Records in 1963 on the basis of their local success with an indie release of "Louie Louie," and Columbia released that master as the group's first single. While it was a huge success in the Northwest, the Kingsmen's version took the country by storm, largely because of the controversy over its definitely unintelligible and supposedly obscene lyrics. As it turned out, the Kingsmen's version was merely the garbled result of lead singer Jack Ely trying to sing into an awkwardly-placed mic while wearing braces on his teeth, while the Raiders' version really does have an obscene ad-lib during the guitar solo. The Who certainly took notice of the Raiders at this time. Check out The Raiders' "Louie, Go Home" (1964) from the Columbia/Legacy anthology Legend of Paul Rever and then check out The Who's "Lubie (Come Back Home)" (1965) from Who's Missing - you'll hear an identical song … note for note, word for word, ad-lib for ad-lib, with Roger Daltrey's vocal style an exact copy of Lindsay's on the original song. By the way, "Louie, Go Home" was also covered by David Bowie. Newly signed as the house band on Dick Clark's squeaky-clean MTV precursor "Where the Action Is," the Raiders released "Steppin' Out," which Barned describes as "a classic number with a brilliant prototypically punk Lindsay vocal, and the next single, the pulsing rocker "Just Like Me" (later covered by Pat Benatar) went Top 10." The follow-up album, Midnight Ride, has been included as #63 in Tom Hibbert's "The Perfect Collection - The Rock Albums Everybody Should Have and Why." He says, "There was nothing innocuous about the Raiders' music, just listen to the power and drive of "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone." (And check out the Sex Pistols' recent version.) Paul Revere & the Raiders, featuring Mark Lindsay, continued to record new material for Columbia through 1973, including the largest selling single in Columbia Records history to that date, "Indian Reservation." Mark pursued a solo recording career at the same time, and recorded the platinum single "Arizona," available on THE BEST OF MARK LINDSAY, the ARIZONA/SILVERBIRD combined CD, and ARIZONA AND OTHER STATES OF MIND. Although the Raiders' final album has never been released (it has been dubbed THE LOST ALBUM), a few cuts made it to THE LEGEND anthology, including "Chain of Fools" - with the group returning to its R & B roots on that track. Ken Barnes concludes with: "Those who are willing to re-examine what they overlooked for years will find a wealth of fine music - impressive instrumentation (the powerful chording or the whining twin guitars on "Just Like Me" or "Hungry" for example), superb singing (Lindsay at times approached the status of an American Jagger) and enthralling precise harmonies - in short, some of the best American rock and roll of the sixties." U.S. - BILLBOARD TOP 100 CHART RESULTS 1961-1975 **(This is not a complete discography - just Top 100)** PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS Featuring Mark Lindsay SINGLES Like Long Hair #38 - 1961   (Lindsay-Revere-Robert White-Richard White-Labrum)   Arranged by Gary Paxton Steppin' Out #46 - 1965   (Lindsay-Revere)   Produced by Terry Melcher Just Like Me #11 - 1965   (Dey-Hart)   Produced by Terry Melcher Kicks #4 - 1966   (Mann-Weil)   Produced by Terry Melcher Great Airplane Strike #20 - 1966   (Lindsay-Melcher)   Produced by Terry Melcher Good Thing #4 - 1967   (Lindsay-Melcher)   Produced by Terry Melcher Ups and Downs #22 - 1967   (Lindsay-Melcher)   Produced by Terry Melcher Him or Me - What's It Gonna Be? #5 - 1967   (Lindsay-Melcher)   Produced by Terry Melcher I Had A Dream #17 - 1967   (Lindsay-Melcher)   Produced by Terry Melcher Peace of Mind #42 - 1967   (Lindsay-Melcher)   Produced by Terry Melcher Too Much Talk #19 - 1968   (Lindsay)   Produced by Mark Lindsay Don't Take It So Hard #27 - 1968   (Lindsay)   Produced by Mark Lindsay Cinderella Sunshine #58 - 1968   (Lindsay)   Produced by Mark Lindsay Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon #18 - 1969   (Lindsay)   Produced by Mark Lindsay Let Me #20 - 1969   (Lindsay)   Produced by Mark Lindsay   RIAA Certified GOLD 6/6/96 We Gotta All Get Together #50 - 1969   (Weller)   Produced by Mark Lindsay Just Seventeen #82 - 1970   (Lindsay)   Produced by Mark Lindsay Indian Reservation #1 - 1971   (Loudermilk)   Produced by Mark Lindsay   RIAA Certified GOLD 6/30/71   RIAA Certified PLATINUM 9/19/96 Birds of a Feather #23 - 1971   (South)   Produced by Mark Lindsay Country Wine #51 - 1972   (Villareal-Watkins)   Produced by Mark Lindsay Song Seller #96 - 1972   (Webb)   Produced by Mark Lindsay Love Music #97 - 1973   (Lambert-Potter)   Produced by Mark Lindsay   ALBUMS Here They Come! #71 - 1965 Just Like Us! #5 - 1966   RIAA Certified GOLD 1/6/67 Midnight Ride #9 - 1966   RIAA Certified GOLD 3/20/67 Spirit of '67 #9 - 1966   RIAA Certified GOLD 4/17/67 Greatest Hits #15 - 1967   RIAA Certified GOLD 8/25/67 Revolution! #25 - 1967 Goin' To Memphis #61 - 1968 Hard N' Heavy (With Marshmallow) #51 - 1969 Alias Pink Puzz #48 - 1969 Indian Reservation #19 - 1971   Mark Lindsay - Solo Releases SINGLES First Hymn From Grand Terrace #81 - 1969   (Webb)   Arranged by Al Capps   Produced by Jerry Fuller Arizona #10 - 1969   (Young)   Arranged by Artie Butler   Producer by Jerry Fuller   RIAA Certified GOLD 1/6/70 Miss America #44 - 1970   (Kelly)   Arranged by Artie Butler   Produced by Jerry Fuller Silver Bird #25 - 1970   (Young)   Arranged by Artie Butler   Produced by Jerry Fuller   And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind #44 - 1970   (Diamond)   Arranged by Artie Butler   Produced by Jerry Fuller Problem Child #80 - 1971   (Davis)   Arranged by Bill Justis   Produced by Jerry Fuller Been Too Long On the Road #98 - 1971   (Gates)   Arranged by John D'Andrea   Produced by Jerry Fuller Are You Old Enough? #87 - 1971   (O'Day)   Arranged by John D'Andrea   Produced by Mark Lindsay   ALBUMS Arizona #36 - 1970 Silver Bird #82 - 1970 **(This is not a complete discography - just Top 100)**

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