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JON & ROBIN & THE IN-CROWD

“DO IT AGAIN A UTILE BIT SLOWER”

(Jayne Thompson)

Abnak 119

No. 18   June 24, 1967

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Jon and Robin Abnor were a husband-and-wife team from Dallas.   SONNY & Cher were fabulously

popular at this time, and other duos were hopping on the folk­-rock bandwagon.   Jon & Robin’s slightly

suggestive hit single (pressed on yellow vinyl, an unusual practice back then) was produced by rockabilly

legend Dale Hawkins of”Susie Q” fame, as was “Do It Again”‘s fol­low-up, “Drums” (#100, 1967).

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One other Jon & Robin 45 charted–“Dr. Jon (The Medicine Man)” (#87, 1968). Thereafter, Jon worked

alone and with studio players as Jon & The In-Crowd, Jon Abnor, H. Rabon, Jon Howard, Jon Howard

Abnor, and the Abnor Involvement.   Wife Robin even had a solo try as (naturally) Robin. Most of these

offerings eluded critical notice with the greatest of ease.

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Reportedly, the Abnors owned Abnak Records, the label largely keep alive by bigtime success of one singed

group:  the Five Americans who had racked up a number of pop hits–“I See the Light” (#26, 1966), “Evil

Not Love”(#52, 1966), and “Western Union” (#5, 1967).   Herein lay the source of the financial where ­

withal that allowed Jon and Robin to prolong what oth­erwise might-have-been more truncated careers.