The Gamblers

If music history were a high-stakes poker game, a Los Angeles grouping that called itself the Gamblers would represent an interesting example of a studio band winning big -- rather than an actual working band with a fan following. This is not the British group also called the Gamblers that backed singer Billy Fury and put out a series of singles that basically flopped. Both groups were active in the same decade, the '60s -- but by the time the British group began recording in 1963 the American group had already painted its single masterpiece, its members moving on to other thi...