The Ragamuffins

The Ragamuffins were the proto-version of the Music Machine, as the trio, formed in 1965, expanded to a five-piece and changed their name to the Music Machine in 1966. All three Ragamuffins -- leader, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Sean Bonniwell, drummer Ron Edgar, and bassist Keith Olsen -- had just finished stints in folk-pop bands prior to teaming up to form a rock group. Bonniwell had been in the Wayfarers; Edgar in the Goldebriars; and Olsen in the band of singer Gale Garnett. Four songs from a 1965 Ragamuffins session, unissued at the time, finally came out on the Mu...