Washington DCs — “Any Time”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — December 5, 2023

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

1,038) Washington DCs — “Any Time”

A Liverpool band named the Washington DCs? Well, I’m just glad they didn’t burn down the White House as a publicity stunt. If they’d been managed by Andrew Loog Oldham, they probably would have!

“Ring me anytime, love me anytime, I’m your anytime boy”. Uh, you should have hooked up with Billy Nicholl’s “day time, night timе, rag time girl”! (see #964)

As to the DCs:

A Liverpool band [which] sign[ed] to Ember in the early Sixties. After some considerably mediocre beat for Ember, the band started to shine after signing with CBS in 1966. CBS issued two singles . . . including their famed “Seek and Find” single before finally calling it a day. Miki Dallon stepped in two years later and issued their final single “I’ve Done It All Wrong” b/w “Any Time” on Domain records in 1968. . . . [T]his was easily their strongest, but failed to lift the band any further. Roger Saunders and Walter Monaghan teamed up with Bobby Harrison to form a revised line-up of progressive psych legends, Freedom in 1970.

liner notes to the CD comp Piccadilly Sunshine: Volumes 11-20: A Compendium of Rare Pop Curios from the British Psychedelic Era

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