Over the years, other artists have rerecorded "Little Girl", such as England's the Banned, who made it a Top Ten hit and a 'punk rock' classic. The Divinyls made a video of their single "Little Boy" (a gender change from the original "Little Girl") which became a hit on MTV, and Dwight Yoakam featured the song on his La Croix d'Amour album. Not too surprisingly, a new radio programming concept called 'classic rock' was catching on, and began kicking the dust off the hits of the 1960s up to the present. "Little Girl," naturally, was among those getting significant airplay, soon to reach its 1,000,000th play, spurring on renewed interest in the Syndicate of Sound.
In 1990, original members Bob Gonzalez and Don Baskin, along with John Duckworth, put the band back together. They called on Jim Sawyers for guitar and Ned Torney for keyboard. Jim was with the band during all the heavy touring after "Little Girl" became a hit, and Ned was the keyboard player used by the band on all their post Sharkey recordings. Jim has since hung up his guitar and the group has called on Terry Shehorn, who played in local band the E Types during the day, to fill the lead guitar slot.
In 1995, Gonzalez and company were informed by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum that they were installing a plaque with the band's picture to be displayed in the museum citing "Little Girl" as a pivotal song in the history of rock & roll. Next to it is a tape-looped recording of "Little Girl" played at 20-minute intervals. The band achieving status as one of the most notable "One Hit Wonders".
"Little Girl" was picked up by Touchstone in the spring of 2002 to be featured in its movie, "Sorority Boys".
The constant resurgence, and ongoing popularity of their hit "Little Girl, and their cult status as one of the greatest "Garage Bands" ever, will give the Syndicate of Sound their place in Rock and Roll history.
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