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The Mystics were inactive from the mid-'60s until the rock and roll revival hit in 1969-70. For a while, the original five members did the revival circuit. But when George Galfo and Bob Ferrante moved to Florida and Arizona respectively, the group needed new members.
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[P]erhaps the biggest killer for the Mystics last season came on June 17 in a win against New York. The Mystics suffered a huge loss when DeLisha Milton-Jones, both an emotional leader and key player on both ends of the floor, injured her knee and was out for about a month. In only 23 games she averaged 14.6 ppg, 1.52 spg and 4.87 rpg.
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Laurie liked this idea, but unfortunately for The Mystics, the project was given to Dion and the Belmonts. In the late summer of 1959, Laurie released The Mystics second single with "Don't Take The Stars" doing very well locally and in the tri-state area. Nationally, the record made the top 60. However, at the recording session, The Mystics started getting disillusioned with Elliot Greenberg's arrangements. The group made another TV appearance with Clay Cole. His show was now on Channel 13 in New York. Around this time, The Mystics recorded "Red Red Robin", which remains unreleased to this day, and "Paper Moon" which was released in 1980 on the Crystal Ball LP Laurie Records - A Full House.
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As fans of the Mystics know, the group began to take shape in 1956 and entered a talent contest at the Loew's Oriental Theatre in Brooklyn New York in 1957. Back then, they were known as the Overons, but they officially became The Mystics when they signed with Laurie Records in 1958.
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"John Crowder's book, The New Mystics, is both enlightening and inspiring as he chronicles the radical forerunners of history that have paved the way for the moving of the Spirit in each generation. God is indeed raising up a radical new breed of revivalist who will inspire, confront, reform and help usher in a new wave of God's glory and power into the earth.”
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After the Flaming Lips' last album, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, its new opus, At War with the Mystics is comparatively normal. The disc, out Tuesday, is in some sense a political protest album rooted in contemporary times, rather than an intergalactic sojourn through fictional worlds.
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