We have already encountered Berkeley, California’s The Answer thanks to their collaboration with Denise Kaufman on the utterly brilliant Denise and Company single ‘Boy, What’ll You Do Then’ from January 1966.

A couple of months before – in November 1965 – the band, who had formed at Berkeley High School, had released a 45 of their own on White Whale Records. The deal with the label apparently came about because The Answer had befriended Westchester, CA popsters The Turtles (who...