Were The Feminine Complex for real?

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Dunno if anyone can help me but I've just been going through my box of 7"s and found something wonderful by a band called The Feminine Complex. The song is called 'Hide and Seek' and it's backed by '6 O Clock In The Morning (demo)' and it's on that Wurlitzer Jukebox label that was always ace for most of the 90s. I know they must've licensed the track from Teenbeat and I know that there really was a late 60s Texan girlband called The Feminine Complex but I really need to know if this amazing song is fer'real from the late 60s or simply down to the pranksters who did the two albums for Teenbeat- I also know that this track turned up on a Japanese psyche-garage compilation as well.
I know it doesn't matter when it was made cos it's still a fucking astonishing record (Julie London vocals, Love guitar, Roxy basslines- FIND IT!)- it's just really to satisfy a curiosity as to whether it's got a smirk on it's face or not (it doesn't SOUND like it does).
Cheers,
NK

― Neil Kulkarni, Friday, 3 January 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i was always under the impression that it was a 60s job (note, this is one of the WJ singles i havent actually heard), this could be because enraptured did a similar job with the silver apples, so i assumed the same (actually, thinking about it, the silver apples record actually WAS new so...)

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 3 January 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always assumed it's for real. I bought the compilation album (a corker!) after we'd covered Forgetting (as Tomorrow's World) for Mike Alway's 'Songs For the Jet Set'.

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 3 January 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It's just that the all-music guide flimflam on TFC say that the two albums that Teenbeat released were 'widely rumoured' to be the work of modern-day smartarses. Had me worried that I was getting my rainy New Years day exploded by someone with violently clenched buttocks and a Phd in scamming anyone who had a heart.

― Neil Kulkarni, Friday, 3 January 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Look on Gemm - they seem to have original copies os singles for sale.

By the way, have you also heard Wendy & Bonnie? Their Genesis album, recorded when they were 17 & 13 includes a few demos which sound exaclty like Marine Girls/early Tracey Thorn. I Realised You (which we also covered, hehehe) is a bloody masterpiece...

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 3 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

They were very much for real. I found an original -- but quite battered -- Canadian copy of the album at a Calgary record store this past summer. *Much* better than I would ever have expected.

― Michael White, Friday, 3 January 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah... completely for real... but the jury's still out on whether ALL the tracks on the teenbeat releases are legit or not...

imitation and flattery, how do they work again?
m.

― msp, Friday, 3 January 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

It hasn't been mentioned yet that session musicians were used for the studio album Livin' Love (I think it even states that in the TeenBeat re-release liner notes). I bet that the girls only supply vocals for those songs. The entirety of To Be in Love is performed by the girls, though (and the demo bonus songs on LL on TB probably, too). MSP - which tracks are in doubt of being legit? (and by "legit" you mean...?). Just curious.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 3 January 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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