The Fort Worth teen scene emerged from the wake of the British Invasion, with nearly all the bands from the region tended to take influence from the harder-edged R&B and blues rock music of the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds.
[1] These two musical acts' styles were emulated throughout the series on "one-take" recordings, which also mixed in a sizable share of cover versions such as two different interpretations of "Mister, You're a Better Man Than I" and "Train Kept A-Rollin'".
[2] Typical of most garage rock musical artists of the era, Fort Worth's scene was formed by developing teenage musicians, sharing the primitive and raw sound of groups featured on the Pebbles series.
For the most part, the bands were extremely popular within Fort Worth, but hardly became noticed outside the region, granted the limited national exposure of "Night of the Sadist" by Larry and the Blue Notes.
[3] Along with the albums' liner notes, a film called Teen A-Go-Go was created by music historians Mellissa Kirkendall and Mark A. Nobles, and released to correspond with the series.