Somewhere Outside:
The Ugly Ducklings were probably the best known Canadian garage rock group of the mid-'60s. Formed in famed Toronto’s Yorkville area in 1965, the band flourished in the many coffee houses around the Yorkville district as a Rolling Stones cover band before becoming the Ugly Ducklings and attracting the attention of the local Yorkville Records label.
The band recorded a single, Nothin’, that became a Canadian hit and opened for the Rolling Stones in 1966 when the band played Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens. The band was quickly becoming local heroes and in 1967 the album, Somewhere Outside was released on the small independent Yorkville label.
The album contained nine original compositions as well as two cover songs. The band drew heavily from the Rolling Stones, the Kinks and the Pretty Things style with a raunchy R&B/rock sound. The album sold well in the Toronto area but due to lack of national distribution the band failed to break out across the rest of the country.
