The Speedies

The Speedies were a late 1970's New York Based Power Pop band. Four of the members hailed from Brooklyn, the bass player John Carlucci was from Queens. They were a favorite band at the legendary NY Punk Club, Max's Kansas City, where they were so popular they broke the house attendance records. The Speedies were local media darlings, appearing in features in the SoHo Weekly News, Village Voice, NY Post, Life Magazine, The New Yorker, Hit Parader, New York Rocker and Crazy magazine. They won the NY Rocker's readers poll as the best unsigned band in America in 1979. The often supported international touring acts, having appeared with The Jam, The Undertones, The Gang Of Four, Ultravox, The Members or The David Johanson Group, among others. In 2005 The Speedies song "Let Me Take Your Photo" was featured in a nationwide TV commercial for Hewlett Packard. Jay Leno also uses the song as part of a re-curring skit called "The Photo Booth" . [SOURCE: LAST.FM]