Song of the day (6/6/2010):
The Sharades - Dumb Head
@CamellaLobo (who runs the really good The Ladies and Gents Auxiliary blog) recently mentioned the Let's Go! - Joe Meek's Girls! comp. In turn, I mentioned that this Sharades song is by far the sunniest part of the comp. Of course she agreed, as would anyone who has heard the comp and has a pair of ears.
It's another one of those rare girl group songs that bleeds outside the normal girl group mold in all the right ways.
And if the idea of a Tony Hatch girl group is something to boggle at, what about a Joe Meek girl group? The Sharades only recorded two songs on one 1964 7" as far as we know - said vinyl has gone for three figures on eBay - but even by most of his out-there pop production standards this cover of American soulstress Ginny Arnell is extraordinary. [from the Sweeping the Nation]
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