The band was formed in 1965 by the five university students Kazuhiko Katō, Osamu Kitayama, Yoshio Hiranuma, Mikio Imura and Masaki Ashida, but Ashida and Imura left the band at an early stage.
The same year, the album was picked up by radio stations in Kyoto and Kobe, where the songs "Imujingawa" and "Kaette Kita Yopparai" were played frequently.
"Kaette Kita Yopparai" ("Drunkard Returns") sold over one and a quarter million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
[1] The band starred in a 1968 movie with the same title as the song, Three Resurrected Drunkards, directed by Nagisa Oshima.
The members continued their musical careers in different bands but had two reunions as The Folk Crusaders and released some more albums.