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Biography
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The City Squires
Parma, Ohio 1965-70.
The City Squires were a long lasting and very popular band in the Cleveland and northern Ohio band scene, releasing three 45s. The band was started by junior high students Jim Brickner (13 years old) on guitar and Roland Solomon (12 years old) in 1963. The original band, named the Jaguars after the car, included Jim, Roland, and Tom Sitzler (drums). Tom Kent (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) joined the band a few weeks later, and when Sitzler left soon after, Tom brought in Dale Zack on drums. Dale and Tom were from Middleburg Heights while Jim and Roland were from Parma.
in the fall of '66 the City Squires disbanded for a few months. Roland Solomon left the band and Greg Burnett from the Canterburys was brought in to replace him. Jim Brickner and Greg Burnett organized a new City Squires by hooking up with another Parma band, the Set LTD, and from that group Jerry Colvin (keyboards) and Gus D'Angelo (bass) joined, along with Bill McCracken (from the Canterburys) on drums. In the new City Squires, Greg emerged as their lead singer, sax player, trumpet player, and front man.
In the summer of '68 Jim Brickner had a brief argument with a couple members, apparently over a PA system, and left for a few weeks. During this time the band performed as "Pye Jones and the 28th Day Ragtime Band" with Greg Burnett adopting the stage name "Pye Jones" (to this day he's not sure where that came from).
The City Squires were a long lasting and very popular band in the Cleveland and northern Ohio band scene, releasing three 45s. The band was started by junior high students Jim Brickner (13 years old) on guitar and Roland Solomon (12 years old) in 1963. The original band, named the Jaguars after the car, included Jim, Roland, and Tom Sitzler (drums). Tom Kent (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) joined the band a few weeks later, and when Sitzler left soon after, Tom brought in Dale Zack on drums. Dale and Tom were from Middleburg Heights while Jim and Roland were from Parma.
in the fall of '66 the City Squires disbanded for a few months. Roland Solomon left the band and Greg Burnett from the Canterburys was brought in to replace him. Jim Brickner and Greg Burnett organized a new City Squires by hooking up with another Parma band, the Set LTD, and from that group Jerry Colvin (keyboards) and Gus D'Angelo (bass) joined, along with Bill McCracken (from the Canterburys) on drums. In the new City Squires, Greg emerged as their lead singer, sax player, trumpet player, and front man.
In the summer of '68 Jim Brickner had a brief argument with a couple members, apparently over a PA system, and left for a few weeks. During this time the band performed as "Pye Jones and the 28th Day Ragtime Band" with Greg Burnett adopting the stage name "Pye Jones" (to this day he's not sure where that came from).