But, if the project had continued, we would have gotten something usable out of it, even as young and inexperienced as I was (and July was terrified, it was her first real studio BIG GIG!), and as thin, nasal and YOUNG as my silly voice sounded at the time! *sigh* *blush*īut, we were working in the studio built into the home of Bob Hilliard, who wrote “Our Day Will Come” and “7 Little Girls Sitting In The Backseat” (remember THAT old hit?), and we were about 3/4 the way through the recording sessions Mr. Today this would seem like a snap to me, but then it was a relatively new thing for me to try to stack 4 to 6 voices up in harmony behind the song. I sorta became Marty’s right hand man for the sessions and various aspects of it including directing him and another voice actress during particular tracks, and trying to be an entire backup vocal group doing multi-tracking with just myself and a dear friend named Donna (aka July) Rowan, I had sung with since High School. When I got to the session, I was the ONLY guitarist! BIG PRESSURE! Eventually he brought in a young hotshot to play electric (whew) and I DID play rhythm and my folkie finger pickin’ stuff for all 12 of the tunes he recorded.
#Rickie tickie stickies pro
I was no pro player then (or ever really), but I figured I would bring my axe (Marty was very insistent) and maybe play some rhythm or something. I bumped into him in Hollywood, we were both surprised, he was happy to see me, we chatted 100 miles an hour for about 20 mins, at the end of which I had agreed to come to a recording session he had scheduled to record some parody songs he’d written (with a partner named Denny as I recall) and bring my guitar, just in case there was something I could add. It was a fairly short lived relationship and they parted company and I didn’t see Marty again for about 5 or 6 years. My mom dated Marty Ingels when I was about 11 or 12, and he and I were great friends then. I love those memories and, I must admit, I am a little (perhaps unjustifiably) proud to have been part of the history of the “Rickie Tickie Stickies” craze of the mid 1960s. Eventually, believe it or not, he sold the company to a big national manufacturing company for one million dollars! We had a very friendly working relationship and we would always spend some time ‘rapping’ ( as the term was originally meant to define chatting in those days) and on one of those visits he told me his tale of the creation of them. They got so popular so fast that I saw him a lot at the store when he came to bring a new supply. After a short time they were so popular and lucrative for him that he brought several of his neighbors into the business and paid them to help out as well.īut at first it was just him and the family and he was the guy who actually brought them into the store asking us to take a batch of them on consignment. The man who invented and actually manufactured the “Rickie Tickie Stickies”, ordered the little plastic flower shapes ( with adhesive backing) from a local die cutter/printing shop and used his own family members to package them in his garage. We did A LOT of consignment deals with various local artists and hippies who would bring their work into the store asking to sell them to our customers through the “psych shop”. in Hollywood, California back in the mid 1960s. I know their name ( and take it a little bit personally) because of being among the very first ( literally) to see ’em and sell ’em in my old store “Ye Olde Psychedelic Shoppe” on Suunset Blvd. It has bothered me for years that no one seemed to recall that they HAD a name. I was recently reading an article about the 1960s and I was impressed that the ‘author’ of the text used the actual name ( and got it right!) of the infamous ‘flower power’ stickers… which is “Rickie Tickie Stickies”.
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