Editing Robbie Robertson (section)

===With Levon and the Hawks===
The Hawks left Ronnie Hawkins at the beginning of 1964 to go on their own.<ref name="bowman_band_bio_3">{{cite web|last1=Bowman|first1=Rob|title=The History of The Band: The Pre-Band Groups|url=http://theband.hiof.no/history/part_3.html|website=The Band Website|publisher=Jan Hoiberg|access-date=February 14, 2016}}</ref> The members of the Hawks were losing interest in playing in the rockabilly style and favoured blues and soul music. In early 1964, the group approached agent Harold Kudlets about representing them, which he agreed to do, booking them a year's worth of shows in the same circuits as they had been in before with Ronnie Hawkins. Originally dubbed ''The Levon Helm Sextet'', the group included all of the future members of the Band, plus Jerry Penfound on saxophone and Bob Bruno on vocals.<ref name=levon_helm_book/>{{rp|105–106}}

After Bruno left in May 1964, the group changed their name to Levon and the Hawks. Penfound stayed with the group until 1965.<ref name=jerry_penfound/> Kudlets kept the group busy performing throughout 1964 and into 1965, finally booking them into two lengthy summer engagements at the popular nightclub Tony Mart's in [[Somers Point, New Jersey]], at the Shore.<ref name=whispering_pines/>{{rp|64–66, 68}} They played six nights a week alongside [[Conway Twitty]] and other acts.<ref name="tony_mart_1965">{{cite web|title=1965: From Conway Twitty to Bob Dylan|url=http://www.tonymart.com/memory-lane-1965.htm|website=Tony Mart Official Website|access-date=February 28, 2016|archive-date=January 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114101037/http://www.tonymart.com/memory-lane-1965.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The members of Levon and the Hawks befriended blues artist [[John P. Hammond]] while he was performing in Toronto in 1964.<ref name=band_bio/>{{rp|84–85}} Later in the year, the group agreed to work on Hammond's album ''So Many Roads'' (released in 1965) at the same time that they were playing the [[Peppermint Lounge]] in New York City.<ref name=whispering_pines/>{{rp|65}} Robertson played guitar throughout the album, and was billed "Jaime R. Robertson" in the album's credits.<ref name=levon_helm_book/>{{rp|110}}

Levon and the Hawks cut a single "Uh Uh Uh" b/w "Leave Me Alone" under the name the Canadian Squires in March 1965. Both songs were written by Robertson. The single was recorded in New York<ref name=whispering_pines/>{{rp|66}} and released on Apex Records in the United States and on Ware Records in Canada.<ref name="band_box_2005">{{cite book|last1=Bowman|first1=Rob|author-link1=Rob Bowman (music writer)|title=''The Band:'' A Musical History ''box set accompanying hardcover book''|date=2005|publisher=Capitol Records|location=Los Angeles}}</ref>{{rp|95}} As Levon and the Hawks, the group cut an afternoon session for [[Atco Records]] later in 1965,<ref name=band_bio/>{{rp|81}} which yielded two singles, "The Stones I Throw" b/w "He Don't Love You" (Atco 6383) and "Go, Go, Liza Jane" b/w "He Don't Love You" (Atco 6625).<ref name=band_bio/>{{rp|420}} Robertson also wrote all three of the tracks on Levon and the Hawks' Atco singles.<ref name=band_box_2005/>{{rp|95}}