THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,944) The Cymbaline — “Matrimonial Fears”
Here is Swinging London’s anthem for the swinging bachelor: “I’ve been having the time of my life for several years I won’t marry a wife, I’ve got matrimonial fears” Supposedly, this inspired Beyoncé to record “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”!
This “well-crafted pop song” is the Cymbaline’s “finest moment”. (Vernon Joynson, The Tapestry of Delights Revisited) In fact, it is so “completely brilliant!” (Louval, https://www.45cat.com/record/bf1624) that wilthomer says he “[w]as drunkenly serenaded . . . at my bachelor party by all my friends” with this song. (wilthomer, https://www.45cat.com/record/bf1624) Unfortunately, UK kids had record buying fears regarding the Cymbaline’s 7 singles between ’65 to ’69. Peter Jones wrote in Record Mirror (for the week ending December 1, 1967) that the band “go[es] on making knock -out discs and do[esn’t] make the charts. Unfair.” (https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/67/Record-Mirror-1967-12-01-S-OCR.pdf) Indeed.
Vernon Joynson says that the Cymbaline was “[a] good, if rather lightweight, pop group from Essex” and that “[i]n Stuart Calver they had a vocalist with a very attractive voice and they were perhaps a bit unlucky that commercial success eluded them.” (The Tapestry of Delights Revisited)
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