BEN WHEELER — A standing-room-only crowd filled Moore’s Store here on Saturday for Mouse & The Traps 45th-anniversary reunion concert featuring Bugs Henderson.

The 1960s band from Tyler featured various members in its history. The core players on hand for the reunion, however, were Ronnie “Mouse” Weiss (vocals/ guitar), Henderson (guitar), Dave Stanley (bass) and Ken “Nardo” Murray (drums), joined by Ron Mason on organ.

Henderson’s own band headlined in April. Murray, Stanley, and Larry Stanley played the venue several times, and Weiss sat in as lead guitarist with The Magills in May and July at the July 4 celebration street dance.

“It’s just a really neat place,” Weiss said. “It’s not all smoky. It’s not a dive or a honky-tonk. It’s a comfortable, nice venue to play in with a good sound system.”

The group first reunited in 1972, and again in 1986. They have gotten together most years when schedules allowed.

Last year, with Larry Stanley sitting in for Henderson, who was in Europe, they played at South by Southwest in Austin.

“It’s a real treat to do this,” Weiss said. “I wish we could do it a lot.”

He performs with the Stanleys and Murray when he can, does some studio work, and plays contemporary Christian music at Landmark Baptist Church.

“We had 220 people there Saturday night,” said Brooks Gremmels, co-founder of Ben Wheeler Arts & Historic District Foundation. “That means there’s 220 people who were following this group for 45 years and think that’s a terrific tribute to the music they created.”

As memorable as Mouse and the Traps is for many people from those years, the band — too eclectic for the corporate music world with its mix of countryrock, psychedelia, sunshine pop, Tex-Mex, blues, folk and garage-rock — never released an album.

Its highest-charting single, “A Public Execution,” is on several compilations. It was re-released in 1995 by New Rose Blues Records with four additional songs.