The Fendermen
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The Fendermen were a pop/rockabilly duo in the early 1960s.
Primarily composed of Jim Sundquist (from Kingsford, Wisconsin and Phil Humphrey (from Stoughton) who met as students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the later 1950s. The group had one big hit with "Mule Skinner Blues", released in 1960 on the Cuca Records label. The song hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. A short-lived "offshoot" group, The Muleskinners [1], formed later in the 60s.
Sundquist and Humphrey shared the same birthday 26 November 1937[2]. They called themselves "the Fendermen", because they both played Fender guitars, and they both connected them to the same amplifier.
[edit] Discography
- Mule Skinner Blues J-1003 (Cuca Records, Sauk City, WI), January 1960)
- Mule Skinner Blues (Lease to Soma), 1960) [3]
- Debut and only studio album, re-released four times between 1995 and 2000; the single "Mule Skinner Blues" sold one million copies.
- The Best of the Fendermen: Mule Skinner Blues and Other Hits (Simitar, 2000) [4]
- A compilation of all their recordings
