THE HONEYCOMBS/ALL SYSTEMS GO! NPL 18132 (-65) UK MONO

London band existing 1963-67, then famous for having a female drummer - the celebrated Ann "Honey" Lantree. Today mostly remebered for their international blockbuster "Have I The Right" - #1 in UK, Australia; Sweden and Canada, #5 in US and high charting in the rest the world - and "That's The Way" - which didn't do as well in UK and US but reached #1 in many other countries. Produced by Joe Meek, one of the men behind the first British pop wave, they remained in an old fashioned style that soon became obsolete. Their first album, the 1964 "The Honeycombs"   https://monolover.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-honeycombs-npl-18097-64-uk-mono.html  (US: "Here Are The Honeycombs" Interphon 88001IN) was still within that zeitgeist, but at the end of 1965 when this arrived too much was changing. Beatles had "Rubber Soul", the white blues movement started to flourish and Byrds was about to launch "Eight Miles High". Honyecombs however sounded like it was still early 1963. So while the debute did rather well with help from two successful singles, this didn't sell at all and soon disappeared from the shops. I still got it and like it a lot. I think the main reason for that is the fond memories I have from when they toured Sweden 1965. They were one of the bands that also performed far up north were I lived, on this occation at a place named Sikfors Peoples Park. Whatever it was called the truth was a small, badly carpented stage in the middle of a meadow with electricity drawn from a nearby house. It was a sunny summer night and the total audience about 50 kids and a billion mosquitoes. But in spite of the circumstances the band soldiered on with big smiles and heads held high and gave us a jaw-dropping experience. Honestly don't remember much of the show as I was too occupied falling in love with the hard hitting Honey Lantree. I pretended she saw me and we clicked - a nice fantasy for the 12 year old boy. That gig made my year and will remain with me as long as I live. To my knowledge this UK mono was the only original issue. German 1990 CD on Repertoire Records (RR 4121-WZ) came with six bonus tracks. Sequel Records CD "It's The Honeycoms/All systems Go" has both UK albums (NEX CD 125). First UK had label as shown here and laminated flip/back cover. (YMÖ*)(FÖGÄ*) (PÖY*)