GOODEES, THE
CONDITION RED THE COMPLETE GOODEES

The golden age of girl groups was seemingly all over until along came ‘Condition Red’, the classic biker death disc performed by the Goodees, a trio of teenagers from the roster of Stax Records’ small HIP offshoot. The group’s previous single, ‘For A Little While’, written and produced by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, was one of the last sessions to feature the Bar-Kays before most of the original band perished alongside Otis Redding in that fateful plane crash in December 1967. Production duties then shifted to the team of Don Davis and Fred Briggs, the brains behind ‘Condition Red’, which brilliantly re-cast the group as ladies-in-waiting to the Shangri-Las. The success of the single brought about the LP “Candy Coated Goodees”, a mix of original material with covers of songs such as ‘My Boyfriend’s Back’ and ‘Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love)’.