The Fifth Estate - Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead (1967) video

The Fifth Estate was a rock n roll band originally formed in Stamford, Connecticut as The D-Men in early 1964. They were originally a garage rock outfit and performed their now garage classic "I Just Don't Care" on Hullabaloo (television). They had numerous appearances on TV including Hullabaloo, which at that time was co-hosted by Brian Epstein, then also The Beatles manager. He "almost" signed them, but this was cut short as it was just at the time of John Lennon's bigger than Christ comment, after which they were lost in the shuffle and forgotten with all the ensuing problems and then Brian's untimely death. They won a Murray the K call-in contest for best new release over The Dave Clark Five and The Animals in 1965, and in 1966, after a rather horrendous yet still somewhat ridiculous turn of events based around the British Invasion/American Band dichotomy and what they now call the 'Murray The K Fiasco,' they changed their name to "The Fifth Estate," after an underground magazine they discovered while in Chicago on a blues club tour. They then, now as The Fifth Estate, released the single "Love Is All A Game" on the Red Bird label, which became a regional hit, and which now receives a great deal of air play around the country as has much of their music as they again have become more highly regarded through their connection with the garage band revival and garage rock movements in general. They had a national/international hit in 1967 with "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead ...