Signed to Tomorrow Records which was owned by the songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King, they were one of the most popular live acts in the New Jersey/New York region during the 1960s and released several singles, enjoying hits in various local markets such as Albany.

The band was formed as the King Bees in 1964 made up of high school students from suburban Passaic Valley townships that border the Interstate 78 corridor in New Jersey.

[2] At first, Chris Irby played bass guitar, but when he decided to quit, drummer Rosa from Berkeley Heights brought in Charles Larkey, a friend of his at Governor Livingston High School.

Aronowitz introduced them to Carole King and Gerry Goffin, the well-known husband-and-wife song writing team, who were then living nearby in West Orange.

[1][2] Their first single, "Free As The Wind", backed with a full-band rendition of Bob Dylan's "Gates of Eden", was released on Tomorrow in December 1965.

[1][3] Billboard reviewed "Free as the Wind" in its December 1965 issue stating, "New label, new group and new Goffin-King material has smash hit possibilities.

[1][2] On December 11, 1965, the Myddle Class headlined a concert at the Summit High School Auditorium with opening acts the Forty Fingers and the Velvet Underground.

[2] In 1966, the Myddle Class released a follow-up single, "Don't Let Me Sleep Too Long", which the band took from a demo by the Blues Project that later became their hit "Wake Me Shake Me" — a song covered by many acts.

[2] The first release on the reconfigured Tomorrow label was by the Bach's Lunch, a female singing group, whose ranks included singer Darlene McCrea of the Cookies and the Raelettes.

They did a residency at Ungano's on the upper West Side of Manhattan, and a played a show to over 3000 people in Smithtown, Long Island, which was promoted by DJ Scott Ross.

In February 1967, they opened for the Animals, but their set was marred by technical problems in the microphones and public address system, resulting in poor reviews for the band's performance.

[2][8][9] In August 1968, Allen Klein took over Cameo-Parkway and ousted the band's representatives at the label, including Neil Bogart (who later founded Casablanca Records), leaving their new single without any promotion.

They are rumored to have recorded and arranged demos of "Pleasant Valley Sunday" and "Porpoise Song" for the Monkees, as well as "Snow Queen" and "Fun and Games", but none of these pieces have ever been released to the public.

[2] Philp and Larkey spent summer that year in Los Angeles working up arrangements with King for songs that to appear on Now That Everything's Been Said, the album by her group the City.

In March 1969 they recorded a number of songs in the studio, including a new Goffin and King composition "Mr. Charlie", and a couple by Palmer and Philp, "Redbeard" (their nickname for Al Aronowitz) and "Keys to the Kingdom".