The Numbers & Their 1983 "Anthology '64-'67" Album on Bomp! Records: EXCLUSIVE Terry Tutor Interview

We uncover a lot about these long-lost '80s retro power-poppers: Their Texas roots, their unexpected connection with The Who, and their slithering alias! The good news? They're dropping a new album!

If there’s such a thing as “The Great Lost Album” or “The Missing Vinyl Link,” Anthology ‘64-’67 by The Numbers may qualify.

Discogs puts it this way: “Their album was presented as an original ‘60s band, as a joke, but some reviewers and fans took it seriously!”

It was released on tiny Voxx Records (a subsidiary of the late power pop maven, Greg Shaw’s BOMP! Records) in 1983. To date, virtually no musical trace of the band’s lone album exists on the vast expanse of internet bandwidth!

There’s little reason for me to have known about the band or this album in 1983, as I was transitioning, then, from a decade in radio and the record biz (and a long-distance friendship with Greg), to a radical career change, starting with a return to college at age 28.

So, how do I know about this album now, 42 years later?

The guy on the left reached out to me on social media.