Wrest To Play Bay View Bash 2015

THE WREST LIVE

At The Bay View Bash 

Saturday, September 19th at 1:30 PM

Between Potter and Clement Ave, on Kinnickinnic Avenue in Bay View (Milwaukee Southeast) 

Follow the link below for more information:

- http://www.bayviewbash.org/Schedule/HomePage

The Wrest 1967

Tom Witter, Bob Sowinski, Bob Krause, Ed Wegner (front), Carl Mussmann, Randy Fare

Play List

One Man Band - Three Dog Night

You Were On My Mind - We Five

Along Comes Mary - The Association

I’m Alive - The Hollies

Darlin - The Beach Boys

Time Of The Season - The Zombies

Tell Her No - The Zombies

She’s Not There - The Zombies

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd

Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones

Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett

Evil Ways - Santana

Abbey Road Medley - The Beatles

You Bet Your Sweet Bippy Lyrics

Per Your Request - Lyrics to You Bet Your Sweet Bippy

You Bet Your Sweet Bippy

When I was a little boy, my mama cornered me. She asked me why I was so bad, I answered simply...baby

“You bet your sweet bippy I'm a hippy hippy hippy and I dig doin simply nothin but rollin in the grass bare, takin trips in the air, pickin lint from my belly button.”

Hip, hip, hip I’m a hippy. You bet your sweet bippy I’m a hippy yeah.

One day I should have been at school, got caught downtown instead. My principal asked why my hair grew so far from my head...I said

“You bet your sweet bippy I'm a hippy hippy hippy and I dig doin simply nothin but rollin in the grass bare, takin trips in the air, pickin lint from my belly button.”

Hip, hip, hip I’m a hippy. You bet your sweet bippy I’m a hippy yeah.

Now, I got a chick who spreads her love all over me. She got along the day I told her very tenderly...tenderly.

“You bet your sweet bippy I'm a hippy hippy hippy and I dig doin simply nothin but rollin in the grass bare, takin trips in the air, pickin lint from my belly button.”

Hip, hip, hip I’m a hippy. You bet your sweet bippy I’m a hippy yeah.

Summerfest 2009 Was Great!

Thanks to all of you who came to see us at Summerfest on Sunday, July 5 at the Briggs stage. The weather was perfect and so was the crowd. We appreciate the support of our family and friends, as well as those of you who were just drawn in and stayed for our show. If you were there, we would appreciate any feedback you have. Thanks, again, and all of the best until we meet again.

Tim DeMaster - lead vocals
Randy Fare - drums
Bob Sowinski - guitar & vocals
Ed Wegner - bass & vocals
Tom Witter - lead guitar & vocals

Also, special thanks from all of us to Terry Michaels, who joined us on keyboards and to our fabulous horn section!

The Wrest to ROCK Summerfest 2009

The Wrest will ROCK THE HOUSE at Summerfest 2009 on Sunday, July 5 from 3:00 PM until 4:45 PM at The Briggs Stage. The Wrest will play a variety of songs from the '60s, '70s and beyond by groups like The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Zombies, Jethro Tull, Chicago, The Rolling Stones, Paul Simon and a great medley of Motown hits.

Original members of The Wrest, who will be performing, are Tim DeMaster - vocals, Randy Fare - drums, Bob Sowinski - guitar and vocals, Ed Wegner - bass and vocals, and Tom Witter - lead guitar and vocals.

Joining the Wrest will be Terry Michaels on keyboards and guitar. A 6 piece horn section will also be featured.

Don't miss this special event! PASS IT ON!

You Bet Your Sweet Bippy

You Bet Your Sweet Bippy was a take-off of Rowen & Martin's Laugh In TV Show. It was recorded shortly after The Wrest won the Wisconsin Jaycee's State Battle of the Bands in 1968. Originally, it was recorded in Appleton, WI at Target Studios and was later picked up by Tower records, which is a division of Capitol Records.

Target Studios was a basic 4 track studio, which was not uncommon in those days. There was a lot of over-dubbing and dumping down of multiple tracks onto one track.

You Bet Your Sweet Bippy reached #4 on Milwaukee's Hit Parade and #54 on Billboard's National Top 100 Weekly Hit Parade. ENJOY!





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The Wrest

The Wrest is a band that originally played in the mid '60s and early '70s. We won the Wisconsin Jaycees Battle of the Bands in 1967 and took fourth place in the Jaycee's National Battle of the Bands in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Our record, You Bet Your Sweet Bippy, was released in 1969.

In those days, we were quite active in Wisconsin from Green Bay to Beloit, La Crosse and in-between. Some of our memorable joint performances were:

• Opened for Sly & The Family Stone at Summerfest in 1969. Over 100,000 people.
  
• The Guess Who
  
• The Boxtops
• The American Breed
• Brian Highland
• Andy Kim
  
• The Unchained Minds

We began playing "Reunion Concerts" about 20 years ago - before it was hip to do reunion concerts. We have continued to perform concerts periodically over the years. Most recently, we performed for the second consecutive year at Summerfest on Friday, July 4 at the M&I Classic Rock Stage. If you were there, we welcome your feedback.

We were asked after our Summerfest appearance if we have a website and we don't. This is our attempt to put forth a blog. We have done a number of performances over the years and have been asked quite often where we can be seen again.

We decided, years ago, that we would limit the number of performances we have because we all have families and careers. But we still have a passion for our music we are able to create together. Therefore, we set guidelines that must be met in order for us to consider performing. We do not keep the money for our performances - we play for Charity. (We make an exception for Summerfest but, hey, it's THE BIG GIG!)

Here are the performance guidelines for The Wrest:

• Must be a Charity
• Must be a "Big Event"
• Our Expenses must be paid

Watch this blog for any information on future performances. Please give us your feedback. Thanks for your interest.

The Wrest