With The Association‘s “Cherish” being used prominently in the The Greatest Beer Run Ever, I’m reminded of how this mid-to-late ’60s pop group didn’t fit the mold. ’60s pop groups had to have reasonably good-looking guys — that was the standard set by the Beatles, Herman’s Hermits, The Dave Clark Five, etc.
And then along came The Association — a six member group that had two handsome guys and four with the oddest, most homely-looking faces in pop-music history.
The dorkiest was Terry Kirkman, who could have been cast as a college-aged serial killer. Next came Larry Ramos (died in 2014 at age 72), a chubby guy who looked like a typical member of an A.V. Squad. The thick-featured Brian Cole (who passed in ’72 at age 30) looked like a bouncer or a rugby player. Russ Giguere was semi-presentable but couldn’t pass the dishy-pop-star test — too geeky, granny glasses, thin moustache.
Jim Yester and Ted Bluechel were the only ones you could honestly call “good looking.”
Note: I posted something similar three or four years ago but I can’t find it.