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History

The Rationals formed in 1964 and first recorded a single for a local label, A² Records, in 1965. After scoring a local hit with the tune "Gave My Love",

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, and the single ended up reaching #92 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The record didn't break everywhere in the U.S. at the same time, so it had a tough time making a decent showing on the national charts. Several further singles, including "I Need You" and "Hold On Baby", were successes in Michigan but didn't catch on nationally. Lead singer Scott Morgan was asked to join

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, but he declined the offer. The group's only full-length, a self-titled effort, arrived on Crewe Records at the beginning of 1970, and the group split up soon after; Morgan went on to play with several other Detroit-area groups over the next three decades, including

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) and several of his own bands. The lyrics of Iggy Pop's track "Get Up And Get Out" from his 1980 album "Soldier" are mostly lifted from the band's 1967 single "Leavin' Here", (written & first recorded by Eddie Holland on Motown in 1963) which was included on Goldenlane Records' 2009 compilation, "60s Garage Nuggets". In 1995, John Sinclair released a live recording of a 1968 Rationals benefit concert entitled Temptation 'bout to Get Me. Sinclair also named his book ''Guitar Army'' after the Rationals song of the same name. The band's version of

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' " I Need You" was also featured on the compilation '' Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968''. The

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record label released Think Rational!, a two-CD anthology of the mid-1960s phase of the Rationals' career, in July 2009. In 2010, The Rationals were voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame.

Members

*Steve Correll – lead guitar, vocals *Bill Figg – drums *Scott Morgan – guitar, vocals *Terry Trabandt – bass, vocals

Discography

Albums *''The Rationals'', 1970 *'' Temptation 'bout to Get Me'', 1995 *''Think Rational!'', 2009 *''The Rationals (Deluxe Edition)'', 2018 Singles

References

External links

Official Rationals website

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