The Piltdown Men were a rock'n'roll instrumental group from Hollywood, Cali… Read Full Bio ↴The Piltdown Men were a rock'n'roll instrumental group from Hollywood, California, featuring two lead saxophones. They were the brainchild of Ed Cobb and pianist Lincoln Mayorga, and their records were issued on the Capitol label.
They were most successful in Britain, where their hits were, beginning in 1960, "Macdonald's Cave" (based on "Old McDonald Had a Farm"), "Piltdown Rides Again" (based on Rossini's "William Tell Overture"), "Chas Has Done His Bootlaces" (based on "Ian Harold Brown" by Charlie Chiro), and (in celebration of the coincidental start of The Flintstones cartoon series on television) "Goodnight Mrs. Flintstone" (based on "Good Night Ladies" by E. P. Christy).
Also in 1960, the tune "Brontosaurus Stomp" reached #75 on the Billboard Hot 100. A CD compilation album was released in 1998, entitled The Piltdown Men Ride Again.
Their name was inspired by the Piltdown Man hoax.
They were most successful in Britain, where their hits were, beginning in 1960, "Macdonald's Cave" (based on "Old McDonald Had a Farm"), "Piltdown Rides Again" (based on Rossini's "William Tell Overture"), "Chas Has Done His Bootlaces" (based on "Ian Harold Brown" by Charlie Chiro), and (in celebration of the coincidental start of The Flintstones cartoon series on television) "Goodnight Mrs. Flintstone" (based on "Good Night Ladies" by E. P. Christy).
Also in 1960, the tune "Brontosaurus Stomp" reached #75 on the Billboard Hot 100. A CD compilation album was released in 1998, entitled The Piltdown Men Ride Again.
Their name was inspired by the Piltdown Man hoax.
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Brontosaurus Stomp
The Piltdown Men Lyrics
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Don Ferrey
Great band out of Trail, B.C. Had many great dances where they played in the 60's. Ozzie had many good stories of their band life. They won the Kootenay Battle of the bands many times. Opened for Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds and other great bands of the time.
Billy Brown ~ Saxophone
Rod Goodrick ~ Drums
Larry Hayton ~ Lead Guitar, Vocals
Blaine Oszust ~ Saxophone, Drums
Jim Stevens ~ Guitar, Vocals
Davis "Fingers" Tamberlini ~ Keyboards
George Turner ~ Bass, Vocals
They also had other hits such as Loves So Easy and Sleepy John
Dana Pidd
Been dancing to this, or rather stomping, for years.... Classic. Did it again tonight with a broken shoulder. Made me feel a lot better....🥰
Richard Smith
One of the best inst of all time. Tommy Tedesco also one of the great drummers.
John Knott
Tommy was a guitarist. Perhaps you meant Hal Blaine?
nunya biznez
wow, I remember listening to this growing up when my parents had parties........good times.
friesiaman s
how nice! it´s a nice tune for sure and surely something special with those timpanies - i wonder, why i never heard it before...
btw. i came here, because i wanted to show someone the real story of the piltdown man, one of the big fakes in history, and there i found the hint to this band...
yay, keep going... :-)
Richard Griffiths
Me too!
Bob Hilts
This song made it to #75 in 1960. The Piltdown Men, Eddie Cobb and Lincoln Mayorga
were also known as the Link Eddy Combo. WTMI
Aygeebee3743
Brings back memories of the early 60's surf dances in Oz
Neil MacDonald
Hey great stuff, good to hear it again
George Peace
Remember this when I was in my teens . Happy memories. Regards George Peace