THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,567) Tuesday’s Children — “Summer Leaves Me with a Sigh”
Here is a “dreamy psych Byrds meets freakbeat fuzz guitar affair” (happening45, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLC-mNhFScY&pp=ygU7VHVlc2RheeKAmXMgQ2hpbGRyZW4g4oCUIOKAnFN1bW1lciBMZWF2ZXMgTWUgd2l0aCBhIFNpZ2jigJ3SBwkJhAkBhyohjO8%3D), “Beatlesque mod rock” (Richie Unterberger, https://www.allmusic.com/album/strange-light-from-the-east-the-complete-recordings-1966-1969-mw0000575123), “irresistible . . . . [m]elding one of [singer Phil] Cordell’s yearning harmony pop melodies with a forceful fuzz guitar arrangement from Mick Ware, [that] could have been a perfect end of the season hit had it not been buried” on a B-side. (Stefan Granados, liner notes to the CD comp Strange Light from the East: The Complete Recordings 1966-1969)
Richie Unterberger tells us of the Children:
Tuesday’s Children grew out of the group Steve Douglas & the Challengers, who formed in North London in 1964. The following year they changed their name to the Prophets, recording some tracks with legendarily eccentric British producer giant Joe Meek that never got released. After singer Steve Douglas left, the three remaining members — guitarists Phil Cordell and Mick Ware, as well as drummer Derrick Gough — added bassist Paul Kendrick and changed their name to Tuesday’s Children. For their first three singles, the group’s figurehead was Cordell, who sang lead and wrote most of their material. After his departure in the summer of 1967, the group carried on with new keyboardist Bob Hodges, Ware becoming the principal singer and songwriter. Although some of their releases got airplay on British pirate radio, Tuesday’s Children never broke through commercially, and changed their name to Czar by the end of 1969, issuing a progressive rock album under that name the following year.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tuesdays-children-mn0000941740#biography
British Music Archive adds:
Tuesday’s Children were formed in 1966 by Phil Cordell, Mick Ware and Derrick Gough who had been in a North London band called Steve Douglas and the Challengers who later changed their name to The Prophets. The Prophets did some recording with producer Joe Meek, but nothing was ever issued . . . . When Steve Douglas and Freddie Fields left, the remaining members reformed the band as Tuesdays Children. Paul Kendrick subsequently joined on bass guitar. Tuesday’s Children were signed to E.M.I. in 1966. Their debut single (“When You Walk In The Sand”) was written by Phil Cordell . . . and it was released on the Columbia label . . . in August 1966. . . . [It] was in the [pirate station] Radio London Fab Forty for 2 weeks, no. 39 on 7th August 1966 and at no. 27 on 14th August 1966. . . . Radio London also owned Pall Mall Music who published the Phil Cordell songs that were the first 3 Tuesday’s Children singles. Phil Cordell quit Tuesday’s Children in summer of 1967 and subsequently had solo hits as Springwater. . . .
Notes adapted from original texts written by Bob Hodges and Mick Ware, http://www.britishmusicarchive.com/artists/tuesdays-children/
Mick Ware recalled that “We were on tour with this band — I can’t remember their name — but in this band was a sax player who happened to be a girl. So when we got home, Phil got together with this girl — whom he later married — and left the band and his wife, all at the same time.” (liner notes to the CD comp Strange Light from the East)
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