The Nationales (band)

1959-1964: Formation
In July 1959, Darian Gosum, aged 17, formed a group with friends Jon Toledano and many other people and would name themselves as the Corindriya National Band after school. 16 year old Marvin Owen joined them as a rhythm guitarist after he and Darian talked about the band. By January 1961, Jon Toledano and Darian's friends had left the school and the group, and the two enrolled a music school The two guitarists, billing themselves as The Two Musketeers and were playing rock and roll whenever they could find another guitarist. a friend of Darian, Lukas Monte joined in January 1962. during a meetup, Darian suggested changing the band's name to National, They used this name until March, when they became the Kasmayian Nationals, They would later go to the Chocko Club, a music venue and performed their demo music and gained some popularity from the locals. they would continue to play in the music venue for an additional 2 years, but they grew tired of appearing at the same club and so played at the Mu-si-chack, and soon hired drummer Erik Prado but during that time Lukas Monte left the group to see greener pastures, in October 18th, 1964 they encountered Gerard Mariner, brother of the founder of Kasmay Records, Raul Mariner, Gerard would later meet the 4 men outside and brought them to Raul Mariner saying that ```They're are our perfect boys``` and auditions were made, Raul Mariner was very pleased and signed them to Kasmay Records and Gerard Mariner became their manager. in November 4th, they released there first single, Boys on the A-side with Erik Prado as the singer. and Peggy Sue on the B-side with Darian Gosum as the singer. a week after the single, Erik Prado was basically fired by Gerard Mariner and was replaced by George Kaur, which had been a close friend of Marvin Owen, in December 18th, 1964 their second single Got the love of My life was released with Beautiful Juan being the B-Side.

1964-1966: Popularity and the 1960s
December 23rd, 1964, Gerard Mariner came up with the name The Nationales, the 4 men thought it was clever and thus they became The Nationales, in February 10th, 1965, they recorded ten songs during a 5-day studio session for their debut LP, Kasmays New Rockers. The album was supplemented by the four tracks already released on their first two singles. the sessions were recorded in Gerard Studios, runned by Gerard Mariner for Kasmay Records. The LP, Kasmays New Rockers was released on February 15th, even tho the album was rushed, It miraculously became number 1 on every Kassmais Chart, Gerard Mariner was impressed that a simple rushed album would make it that far, the band's third single Big Blue City was also a chart-topping hit. She Loves You was covered and became The band's fourth single, Their commercial success brought increased media exposure and soon The band were doing tours around Kassmais, in 1965, they would do a 2-week tour in the Philippines, and another 2-week tour in South Korea, their fifth single, No Reply was released in August, 8th 1965, also on that day they released their 2nd Album InterTheNationales which became number 1 on the charts. in September 10th, 1965, they toured the United States of America, which started American interest and Popularity, and soon in October 23rd, 1965 Gerard Mariner created a subsidiary of Kasmay Records in the USA called Nation Records which distributed Nationale albums with Welcome to USA! Nationales as the first US album, combining the 1st and 2nd Albums together, Nation Records would later be expanded to the UK, Canada and Australia. in January 5th, 1966, the Band's third album Tête dure, during this time, Darian Gosum learned the sitar, now aged 24, Darian Gosum continued to experiment further with his band along with the rest of the group, In April 16th, The band would release its fourth album Zenith, Darian Gosum later admitted during an interview that ```Basically, It was our Revolver, and we took inspiration from that album.```, Welcome to USA! Nationales was later resold in Kassmais under the name Wayback When in May 8th, 1966 as a filler album. in August 23rd, 1966, after touring since 1964, they stated in the news that they would stop touring.

1966-1970: Times of change
Freed from touring, experimentation could finally be implemented properly as they recorded Soaring like an Eagle, beginning in August 25th. According to Darian Gosum He recalled that ```We insisted that everything on our newest album should be fresh and could take number 1 as during that time we had a strong rivalry with The Beatles in terms of taking 1st place on the charts. We were trying to be the better band that we experimented alot,. We used giant primitive oscillators to vary the speed of instruments and vocals and we had tapes chopped to pieces and stuck together upside down and the wrong way around. but we forgot that they were doing the same move but better.```, in November 16th 1966, The band released what they called "There best album to date" called Soaring like an Eagle which would place number one on the Kassmian charts, Replacing Revolver in the charts. on November 28th, 1966 Holly Louirel joined as the Pianist, Meanwhile the album's reign wouldn't last as the revolutionary Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band would replace it in 1967, after the release of Soaring like an Eagle, the Band would take a rest for two years, in 1968, the Band returned with a bang with the album Inserted Hands, in June 1968, the band started in a comedy film called Man Up In The Business which had a accompanying album as the soundtrack called Man Up In The Business (The Nationales album), In December 18th, The band released album called Dishonorably Aged which mainly focused on the more psychedelic side of rock. in March 18th, 1969 The band released another album called Sound of Music, a Postmodern-style Album, in 1970 as a tribute of The Beatles due to their breakup, Goodbye, was nice playing with you! was released as the Nationales' only EP Album, in July 5th, 1970, Manager Gerard Mariner died due to a Car Accident, the Entire band was in shock, Holly Louirel would later say that ```The entire band reacted like the Band was going to collapse due to the death of Gerard, like they lost there family due to, like a airplane crash, it was horrible, the band didn't meet up until 5 weeks later.```, on July 18th, 1970, replacement manager Vicent Mingez was hired.

1970-1992: Decline and Disbandment
During this time, The Nationales were becoming out of favor from the public, wanting more modern music like Disco and seeing The Nationales as nothing more as your grandpa and grandma's music, and soon less people bought their albums. Darian Gosum and His crew needed to modernize, so they took a break, studying and revamping their knowledge, after that on September 24th, 1970 Crazed Gunman was released, hitting the charts but not on number one. in 1972, The band would start doing recording sessions on a new album, during the recording sessions, The band were getting tired, and had mediocre moral. but the album was done but was delayed until 1974 due to decreasing interests, the album was named August Bloom, The Band would not meet up again until 1976, recording and releasing Gloomy Future, Darian Gosum would later explain that ```Gloomy Future was our attempt to say to everyone that We have a passion, specifically a passion of Rock but since everyone likes Disco now, what are we supposed to do? learn how to do Disco? we only do Rock because its the Music Genre we love.```, in January 17th, 1977, The Nationales covered the song Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft as a single. In July 13th, 1978, The Album Last to the Last was Released, hitting in the Top 10 on the charts. in July 17th, 1978, Holly Louirel would leave the band. On June 6th, 1981 The band released Interlocking Machinery which introduced the iconic 1980s logo that would be still used to this day, Darian Gosum, now aged 38 would go on a hiatus for a while, Marvin Owen would become the lead singer until Darian's return, Darian would return 3 months later. in December 4th, 1984 The Album Everlasting was released, during the Recording sessions, Relations between the band soured due to stress. on 1987, their last single, Shanty Gantry, in December 18th, 1987, work started on a new album to homage their old past by going back to their original roots, during the sessions, tensions grew high, Marvin Owen said ```It was very miserable, we didn't seem like ourselves during those times. maybe because we were growing old.``` The band were not satisfied with the results and was cancelled, during 1987-1992, the members of the band would see greener pastures via focusing on their solo careers. in March 15th, 1991 the cancelled album was later completed and was released under the name We don't care, in January 5th, 1992, Darian Gosum and Marvin Owen legally signed the break up of The Nationales and in January 6th, 1992, the news was publicly announced by Darian Gosum that the band had broken up due to increasing strains and that ```We weren't having fun anymore```, under the front-page headline "Nationales going away", later on the band members occasionally collaborated. after The Nationales broke up, Popularity for The Nationales increased due to their demise, this spawned a new generation of Nationales Fans, accompanying the wave of Nationales nostalgia, Persistent reunion rumors began to spread. many times debunked by the band members, Darian Gosum simply said No. When Jon Toledano died in 1995, Darian Gosum made a tribute song named Goodbye, Old Friend., in 1993, The Nationales were inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Kassmian British Song Writer Ellis Bescós Collins.

2006-: Reunion
On December 23rd, 2006, the official The Nationales Facebook page posted a comment which read ```Boys and Girls, Come to the Chocko Club Tonight at 8:45 AM UTC +08!, don't miss!```, on 8:45 in the Chocko Club, all 4 members of The Nationales showed up and played on stage, One week after, Darian Gosum announced that ```Remember when we all said no for reunions? well we've made up our decisions.```, and the music community paid attention to this and News under the headline ```The Nationales coming back?``` were made. On December 30th, 2008 the reunion was made official, in 2007, Back in the game was released with great fanfare and Down Down and Down was released in 2020, also in 2020, a new album, Enter the Nationales was also released. In 2021, the album Classic Nationales was released, this was also the last album to have Jeremy Myers on board as just after the album's release, Jeremy announced his retirement from the music scene and was the first album to feature a new logo. In mid 2021, the single along side the the album, Oh I Love You So was released, featuring backing by Marvin Owen's band Sample CD.

Singles

 * Boys (1964)
 * Peggy Sue (1964)
 * Got the love of My life (1964)
 * Beautiful Juan (1964)
 * Big Blue City (1965)
 * She Loves You (1965)
 * No Reply (1965)
 * Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (1977)
 * Shanty Gantry (1987)
 * I Suppose (2021)
 * Oh I Love You So (2021)

Albums

 * Kasmays New Rockers (1965)
 * InterTheNationales (1965)
 * Welcome to USA! Nationales (1965)
 * Tête dure (1966)
 * Zenith (1966)
 * Wayback When (1966)
 * Soaring like an Eagle (1966)
 * Man Up In The Business (The Nationales album) (1968)
 * Dishonorably Aged (1968)
 * Sound of Music (1969)
 * Crazed Gunman (1970)
 * August Bloom (1974)
 * Gloomy Future (1976)
 * Last to the Last (1978)
 * Interlocking Machinery (1981)
 * Everlasting (1984)
 * We don't care (1991)
 * Back in the game (2007)
 * Down Down and Down (2015)
 * Enter the Nationales (2020)
 * Classic Nationales (2021)
 * Oh I Love You So (album) (2021)

Extended Plays (EP)

 * Goodbye, was nice playing with you! (1970)

Compilations

 * Welcome to USA! Nationales (1965)
 * Wayback When (1966)
 * The Essential Nationales (1973)
 * We Were The Greatest (1976)
 * The Best of The Nationales (1979)
 * Juggling Songs (1984)
 * Let's Remember the Days (1992)
 * Long Gone (1998)
 * 1959-1964: Rediscovered (2001)
 * 1964-1966: Rediscovered (2003)
 * 1966-1970: Rediscovered (2005)
 * 1970-1992: Rediscovered (2007)

Films

 * Man Up In The Business (1968)