Les Tetes Blanches Quebec seems like an odd place for a surf-rock scene, but in the '60s there were dozens of Quebecois bands making like The Ventures. One of them was Les Tetes Blanches, who were previously known as Les Hou-Lops. Their lineup was the same as Les Hou-Lops (singer Gilles Rousseau, guitarists Claude Domingue and Yvan Cote, bassist Jean-Claude Brassard and drummer Claude Laviolette), and it appears as though their gimmick was wearing white wigs or dying their hair white ("Les Tetes Blanches" translates to "The White Heads" in English). There isn't much out there on Les Tetes Blanches, but you can watch them perform a raucous instrumental number named "Derniere Minute" here. This album, which was released on Meteor Records, doesn't include any information about when or where it was recorded, but odds are it dates from the late '60s. It's almost entirely instrumental, with only a couple of tunes sung by Rousseau. "Caravan" is a surf-rockabilly take on a Duke Ellington tune with lots of nicely-recorded frantic drumming, and "Escapade," which was written by guitarist Claude Dominique, is a swingin' number with a bluesier feel. Caravan Escapade