he Gestures were an early rock band from Mankato, Minnesota and their first single “Run, Run, Run” is today’s song of the week. Several bands from the 1960s had songs titled ‘Run Run Run’ (with and without commas) including The Who, The Velvet Underground and The Third Rail, but The Gestures were first; though none of them had much in common outside of their names. The song made it to 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December of 1964, and the band made an appearance on American Bandstand and toured across the Midwest and Canada in 1965. But due to lack of distribution and some confusion over which song was supposed to be the A Side of their next single, it wasn’t long before the band broke up.
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