Vinyl Cave: Here Come the Hardy Boys and Wheels by The Hardy Boys
Published Aug. 14, 2010 at 1:00 p.m.
During the last half of the 1960s, enterprising production companies attempted many hybrids between the world of fictional characters and rock music, in the wake of The Monkees television series and accompanying records, which followed the success of The Beatles films and the still-continuing cross-media success of the Chipmunks franchise.