Like most rock bands of the 1960s, The Cyrkle had a brief existence. As we noted last week, the group produced three albums and had six singles that made the rock charts. All of their hits were written by people who were not band members.

But, like many bands of the 1960s, The Cyrkle had a creative force that wrote many of the songs the group recorded. The ensemble’s three albums included several songs each written by bandmates Don Dannemann and Tom Dawes.

When the band broke up in 1968 and the members all went their separate ways, both Dannemann and Dawes, along with Michael Losekamp (one of the band’s keyboardists), remained in the entertainment business.

The band’s other members, drummer Marty Fried and another keyboard player, Earle Pickens, went to law school and med school respectively. Both became quite successful in their chosen professions.

But so were the group’s members who remained in the entertainment industry. Both Dannemann and Dawes became, among other things, professional jingle writers for numerous corporate clients.

Dannemann’s most memorable success as a jingle writer was creating the phrase “plop, plop, fizz, fizz” for Alka-Seltzer. Dawes, meanwhile, came up the idea of calling Seven-Up the “uncola.”

Losekamp kicked around in the music business for years playing in local bands. In 2014 he contacted Dannemann about joining Losekamp’s current group, The Gas Pump Jockeys, who were playing covers of old rock songs, including those popularized by The Cyrkle.

Dannemann agreed. The Gas Pump Jockeys thereupon became a reincarnation of The Cyrkle. Unfortunately, Dawes had died in 2007 after suffering a stroke.

Dannemann and Losekamp contacted Fried and Pickens about the possibility of also joining the reunion, but both declined because they were making too much money practicing their professions.

But later, when Pickens and Fried (who died in 2021) had retired, they changed their minds and joined the band, too. Now, like lots of other 1960 bands, surviving members of The Cyrkle are performing again for their fans. The band has completed its musical journey – full circle.