The Poor

The Poor are one of those bands that keeps coming up in passing mentions in the back channels of 1960s Los Angeles rock history, though relatively few people have heard their records. They're probably best known for the bigger bands that several members went on to after the Poor broke up, with Randy Meisner joining Poco and then the Eagles, and Allen Kemp and Pat Shanahan turning up in New Riders of the Purple Sage. In their brief time together, the Poor recorded four 1966-68 singles, none of them too exceptional or original, but all of them fairly typical Los Angeles harmony-oriented pop-rock with strong folk-rock and sunshine pop flavors.

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