The Venetian Blinds released a great double-sided single in August, 1967, “Just Knowin’ You Love Me” and “Quit Your Belly Achin’ Baby”.
Despite a lot of information on the label, the Venetian Blinds remain a mystery. The Grudge Records label has an address of 470 Springwood in San Antonio, Texas, but I’ve never run across a band of this name in any contemporary gig listings or articles on San Antonio bands. “Quit Your Belly Achin’ Baby” has a Texas sound to it, for what that’s worth.
The publisher, Margie Music was associated with Atlanta Sound Recording Studios and the Gaye label, like the Mondels, Red Beard & the Pirates, etc. Furthermore, though this may have been a Rite account, the deadwax includes NRC for the National Recording Corporation, an Atlanta pressing plant.
Ric Jansen wrote both songs, with arrangement help by Mike Nolen on “Just Knowin’ You Love Me”. Neither name shows up on other records in either Atlanta or San Antonio, to my knowledge, nor have I found another release with “A Ric Jansen Production” credit.