Thursday, 9 June 2011

Dandy - Love Potion No 9 (1979)


b/w - Anyway You Want It 

 OK, I'll be honest I bought this on account of it being a cover version (God knows how many covers of the Leiber Stroller hit there are!!). I'll admit to being mildly disappointed but when I flipped it over all my woes went away as Anyway You Want It is a great teenybopper / powerpopper. 

The band were  

Phil Hammond (voc) - yellow shirt 
Jeremy Pictor-Wayne (guitar) - white shirt 
Alf Greenfield (bass) - red shirt 
Nick Potts (drums) - green shirt  

After 2 45's for RCA (their earlier 45 was Disco Dancer/Wam Bam Shang-A-Lang 1978) vocalist Kevin Harris ( ex Stevenson's Rocket ) was drafted in & the band changed their name to The Spitfires. (who released another cool powerpop 45 on RCA Friday On My Mind / Can't Get You Off My Mind)  

production for all their 45's was by Bill Kimber (who also worked on all the Monos! 45's) 

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6 comments:

  1. Trudi9 June 2011 at 12:37

    'Alf' was Alf Greenfield, 'Potts' would've been Nick Potts, and 'Hammond' would've been Phil Hammond. But that's all I know!

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  2. bristolboy10 June 2011 at 00:23

    Still more than me, thanks for linking the names - one step closer to finding out the drummer's name!

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  3. Pep Sonic13 June 2011 at 15:31

    Thank you very much for all.

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  4. Frank Miller18 June 2011 at 05:20

    Thanks Bruce ! Add another one to the list.

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  5. bristolboy18 June 2011 at 09:09

    There were loads of copies on Gemm last time I looked - It's a cheapie!! pay no more than $5 (unless you really have to)

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  6. bristolboy3 July 2011 at 06:12

    thanks for the info & clearing up the confusion (the post has been changed)

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