Harry Deal and the Galaxies

Harry Deal and the Galaxies are a rock and roll band formed in Taylorsville, North Carolina, United States, in 1959. They play a style of rock known as beach music, which began in the 1960s in dance clubs of South Carolina beach towns such as Myrtle Beach.

Career

The group was formed by brothers Harry and Jimmy Deal in the small southern town of Taylorsville, NC, where the band continues to perform over 40 years later. The band is synonymous with the term beach music, a style of rock and roll that started in the late 1950s in the dance clubs in Myrtle Beach on the coast of South Carolina. Their music is also associated with a type of dance known as "shagging," or the Carolina Shag.

Several members of the Deal family have played in the band, including wife Geneva and daughter Donna. Harry and Jimmy Deal also built the Galaxie III Recording Studio in the 1960s, where the band has recorded most of its music since. Over the years, the Galaxies have expanded their repertoire to include modern rock and country music, but they continue to be known for their as pioneers of the beach music style.

Discography

45s

• Smacky Mouth
• I Still Love You
• In Between The Lines
• Miss Grace
• Fonky, Fonky
• 60 Minute Man
• Hey Baby
• This Love I Have
• Bad Girl
• Don't You Just Know It
• Warm, Sunny Sunday
• I’m Up for Gettin’ Down Tonight
• She's Got it All together

Albums

• At the Beach
• Vintage
• United
• I Feel Good All Over
• Harry Deal & the Galaxies

External links

• Official website
• Fan Site
• Reference in History of Beach Music
• Discography on CarolinaSoul.org
• History of Harry Deal & the Galaxies on Funky16corners
• Reference in History of Beach Music article
• [1] Reference in Beach Music article on wral.com]
• Harry Deal & the Galaxies reference on Beach Music CD collection
• Record review of the Galaxies' 1960s hit "Fonky, Fonky"