Sold Date: January 22, 2025
Start Date: December 20, 2024
Final Price: $262.46 (USD)
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Custom Undertakers photo t-shirt, photo business card and newspaper article (at least one) AND 45rpm "vinyl "Searching"

Vg-VG+

Band consisted of Bobby Church (guitar), Lee Ward (keyboard Hammond B-3) Fred Detrick (drums) and Ron Forman (bass, sax). Formed in Winter Park FL - managed by Bobby's father, Bill Church.  

They played all around Central Florida including a lot of military bases, teen centers and clubs.  They almost annually played on the local version of the Jerry Lewis Telethon.    Not to be confused with the Undertakers from the Miami area.  There are a number of bio articles on the net about the band, who recorded on the PH (Pine Hills) label for Don Gore in Orlando.

Their singles "Searching" and "Love So Dear" have appeared on various 60's garage and psychedelic compilations and are highly sought collectables.

Bobby was a long time friend.  As he aged, he suffered from what was called Post Polio Syndrome (PPS) having suffered from polio as a child. 

He was the last family member living in the parental home and could no longer take care of it so opted to move to an apartment that was handicapped accessable.   A number of his friends helped him clean the house in prep for the move.  At that time I sold a couple mint copies of Love So Dear here on eBay for him to pay expenses related to his illness.  

We found a box with a few in his late mother's closet. 

Also found in the closet was THIS t-shirt, which Bobby gave me.   He told me his dad had 12 of them made for a family celebration of a band anniversary.  It has never been worn.The business card I was given at The Tiki Club by Ron Forman.  

Bob has since passed on.   I now have severe health issues of my own and I don't think Bob would mind if I do the same with the shirt as we did with his records-use the music to pay for the medical.

Shirt was hand washed because it was a little dusty from being in the closet but I don't see any stains, tears etc and no aroma   

It's ULTRA RARE.

News clipping was in a scrapbook I had of local Central Florida bands

The 45 I got from Bobby Church when the record first came out. It has the normal scratch snap and pop of a record thats been around and played since the 1960s.

Tested on both my turntables it did not skip on either side. Results on your equipment may vary.

I am not a professional record dealer just someone selling their collection to pay medical expenses.

I would guess this as a VG ish Not the best but not the worst.

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10% of this sale goes to MUSICARES FOUNDATION - they help musicians pay expenses for health and other financial emergencies when standard charities won't step up.