Richard Henry — “Oh Girl”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — June 29, 2025

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

1,636) Richard Henry — “Oh Girl”

An American in London’s killer baroque/mod stunner (how often do you hear those two words together?!). How was this not a hit? “Seems to be a one record wonder full of promise of a hit but never really made it.” (colincarroll7954, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uirj12TvElU&pp=ygUVUmljaGFyZCBoZW5yeSBvaCBnaXJs)

Piccadilly Sunshine tells us:

Fulham[, London]’s finest songwriter Ted Fraser was partly responsible for this lone single by Richard Henry. Frazer had befriended American-born singer Henry in London when the two met on tour. Fraser had recently departed from the Flat Top Band, a local Blues act. The two musicians formed a professional songwriting partnership in the late sixties writing for Writer’s Workshop and Essex Music. It was this partnership that gave birth to Richard Henry’s single for Regal Zonophone. Although the record never gained the huge attention it deserved at the time, it did establish Fraser’s more fruitful career when he was offered a job in Spain touring with the Eddie Lee Mattison Band circa 1971. He has since become a more celebrated songwriter.

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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