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The Couryers aka The Couriers are a Detroit, Michigan garage band from the 1960s. Their top hits were "I couldn't care less" and "Just tell me." Songs were recorded in 1967. Members of the band included Tom Valente, Mike Schweickert, Mike Flaherty, and Jim Coppess are from Detroit, Michigan. The correct spelling of the band's name is The Couryers, not the common Internet mistaken name The Couriers.

1=The Couryers Band 2=The Couryers Band was named as one of the top two garage bands of the 1960s era in Michigan. http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/dr-js-blog/158-michigan-garage-band-compilations

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http://www.60sgaragebands.com/couryers.html Tom Valente Recalls The Couryers (June 2012) In 1965, I was 14 and had just started playing guitar. I met Mike Schweickert at U of D High School in Detroit, Michigan where we both started as freshmen. Mike said he played drums, so we got together in Mike's basement a couple of times and that started The Couryers. We played our favorite tunes together -- Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, etc. -- and looked to find more band members. We then met Mike Flaharty, who also was a freshman at U of D High (Detroit, Michigan) and said he was learning the guitar. We had gotten together a few times with Mike Flaharty. We liked playing together and Mike Flaharty and I learned the guitar together. We practiced on Saturdays in Mike Schweickert's basement and then met Gary Roy. Gary was an acquaintance of Mike Schweickert's older brother. He listened to us, liked us, and wanted to be our manager. Gary got us a few gigs in the beginning; we played a couple of college fraternity parties with just the three-piece band. Jim Coppess went to Catholic Central High School in Detroit, Michigan and was a neighbor and good friend of Mike Schweickert's. He would come and listen to us practice and decided he wanted to be in the band. He taught himself the bass guitar and within a year he was in the band. We now had The Couyers: Mike Schweckert on drums, Mike Flaharty on rythym guitar, Jim Coppess on bass, and me, Tom Valente, on lead guitar. We covered the current Top 40 radio hits of the time and developed a setlist to play an entire night. Gary started booking us mostly at high school dances and fraternity parties. He also entered us in various battle of the bands gigs. No pay -- just exposure against other area garage bands. These took place at a lot of the teenage clubs like The Chatterbox, The Mump, Something Different and The Hideout, to name a few. Gary Roy said that he had written lyrics that he wanted music written to. So I put music to his writings and one of the first songs we came up with was 'I Couldn't Care Less'. It was actually about one of our friends breaking up with his girlfriend at one of the U of D High School dances. Gary arranged for two different recording sessions. The first recording was done in a recording room at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit. He didn't like the recording here so he found another studio -- a guy in a basement home studio. I believe his name was Brian Dombrowski. These were the first recordings of 'I Couldn't Care Less' and 'Just Tell Me'. It was 1966. I think the band was not that interested in "releasing" any tunes. We were playing music for the fun of it. We all had school to concentrate on, we were involved in other activities, so we were not that serious about only playing music. Gary Roy wanted to get his songs "out there" more than we were willing too. When we would do a battle of the bands gig, we often were up against a band, The Run-A-Rounds. Gary was disappointed with us and told us if we were not going to pursue this recording thing, he would find another band to do it. He mentioned he could get The Run-A-Rounds to record and release (his songs). We thought he was nuts because we figured no "good" band would want do these songs. That was basically the end of the relationship between Gary Roy and The Couyers. Well, he did have the The Run-A-Rounds record 'I Couldn't Care Less'. It was recorded at Manel Records, a studio on Dexter Ave. in Detroit (mostly a gospel recording studio). I believe this was in 1967. He had then told me that I needed to chart out the song so he could get it copyrighted for us. I gave him the charts, he told me that they were going to press 5,000 copies of the single to distribute, and that he would get back to me with royalty money. I haven't heard from him in 45 years! During that time, I had written a number of tunes with Gary's lyrics (and some with my own lyrics) but since I was not that serious about making this "a career" I never kept the sheets. We kept playing throughout high school, booking our own gigs. We changed our name to The Hours of Collection and by the end of our senior year in high school in 1969, we broke up. We never recorded any other songs nor did we care to. We really never took any photos of the band. We did develop into a pretty good band and we were all good friends. The four of us have just recently contacted one another and found out that our song has a video and is on a '60's garage band album. We never knew! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shopgrl20 (talk • contribs) 01:32, 30 March 2013 (UTC) Source