New Colony Six

Richie Unterberger characterized the group's sound as "a poppier American Them with their prominent organ, wobbly Lesley-fied guitar amplifications, and rave-up tempos", later devolving into "a cabaret-ish band with minor national hits to their credit by the end of the 1960s.

[3] In late 1964, when New Colony Six (from St. Patrick's High School on Chicago's northwest side, and at about 18 years average age) were passed over by Columbia Records and Dick Clark Productions in favor of Paul Revere and the Raiders for the ABC network TV show Where the Action Is, the father of one of the group members, Ray Graffia Sr., along with other parents who agreed to help on costs, paid for the recording studio work on the group's first single, "I Confess", founded the group's record label Centaur (later changed to Sentaur and then finally, Sentar).

Skip Griparis was playing guitar and singing lead vocals in 1972 until the band's initial cessation to performing at the end of 1974.

In 1988, the band played a reunion show at Chicago's Park West organized by Bruce Gordon and has remained in concert performances ever since --- this being updated at the end of 2022, but with contracts already in place into Q4, 2023!

The group, in part, also currently participates in The Cornerstones of Rock concert series, along with four other famous Chicagoland Mid '60's garage rock bands, The Buckinghams, The Shadows of Knight (from Prospect High School), The Cryan' Shames (from Hinsdale South High School) and The Ides of March (from J.