Little Red and the Rocking Hoods, 1970s 8 comments
Commenter Dennis sends this link to a bit of Columbia history I don’t recall at all — our own Cowsills / Partridge Family:
There was a family rock band (Before the Cowsills) here in town called Little Red and the Rocking Hoods. For a few years you couldn’t go to many public events without seeing them play. I went to high school with a couple of the kids, Julia McGee and Eddie McGee. They graduated from Keenan in ‘74 and ‘76, respectively, I think.
Their dad and band leader actually built a sort of recording studio next to their house, which was just across Pinebelt from Keenan HS, on Upland Drive.
I painted a psychedelic design on one of Eddie’s guitars.
Be sure to check out the second (1971) picture here, yet another entry in the
The 70s: What the heck were we thinking?
file!
I’d love to hear some of their stuff..
8 Responses to 'Little Red and the Rocking Hoods, 1970s'
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joel
19 Mar 10 at 3:01 am
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joel — I graduated in ‘75 from C.A. Johnson, but I took some classes at Keenan in the afternoons that Johnson did not offer. I knew a lot of Keenan kids because we all grew up together and all went there when it was a junior high, then the zoning was all switched around and our house was about 20 feet over the line in C.A. Johnson territory. (corner of Beltline and Covenant Rd.)
I remember Julia working for McDonald’s when she was still at Keenan! Remember that cool Jeep she had?
Dennis
19 Mar 10 at 7:55 am
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You could hear her coming up the road a mile away in that thing. She had ‘JULIA’S 304′ screen printed on the front of it. Her brother Eddie drove a hopped up van. Her brother Wayne has a public site called RWMCGEE.COM with old family photos on it and other family reunion sites.
joel
21 Mar 10 at 6:25 pm
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I live very near Upland – -was the studio on the corner? What is it now?
Allie
22 Mar 10 at 8:28 am
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I remember them from the early 70’s. On Fridays after football games They would play at Sloan’s Hamburgers on Sumter Highway in the parking lot
gary
23 Mar 10 at 10:24 am
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I remember them.. never heard them play though, but that’s been years ago.
Del
23 Mar 10 at 7:52 pm
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I remember these guys! Saturdays @ Midland shopping Center on Covenant Rd @ Two Notch. I 2 went to CA Johnson but dropped out @ beginning of 10th grade. Eddie works over at FN mfg.
Myrtle
1 Jun 10 at 4:09 pm
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I was stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort, SC July 1970 to Jan 1972. I remember them coming to play at the enlisted men’s club a number of times. I thought they played and sounded pretty good. I still cannot listen to Steppenwolf’s
Born to be Wild without thinking of Little Red and the Rocking Hoods. A few of the Rocking Hoods were quite young, played great and I was surprised they let them play in the club.Russ
31 Jul 10 at 8:29 pm
Dennis
What year did you graduate Keenan? I did so in ‘76.
I was quite fond of the McGee family, especially Julia, but I never heard their band play. She went on to become a McDonald’s tycoon up in Greenville.