Johnny did the same thing with I&P and sent us with Bill Holmes to radio stations in Palm Springs and San Diego on his recommend so they started playing the heck out it. Pretty soon we had enough credence to approach LA. First up was KBLA and Dave Diamond and the Diamond Mind...that led to the Bill Drake stations all across the country.
Long Days Care = fantastic debut single!
It actually charted in Santa Barbara - #25 with a bullet!
Fortune Teller charted here too, a NUMBER ONE HIT in the Fall of '66! Good ole Johhny Fairchild.
We did start doing a somewhat new arrangement of Heart Full of Rain. I loved it but we didn't keep it in the set. Mark Stephen Weitz actually wrote the song and sang it...It was his first song! But, Bill Holmes put his name on it because he paid for the session. What a crook!
Long Days Care is cool...we started messing around with that one too but dropped it. That's Lee Freeman singing and playing harmonica.
Just discovered the early singles Long Days Care and Heart Full of Rain.Fantastic!Particularly "Rain".Did you have confidence in these tracks as potential Billboard hits?Do you cover Sixpence tunes anywhere in your current day repertoire?
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