Sweet Thursday (album)
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| Studio album by Sweet Thursday | |
| Released | 1969 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 43:56 |
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Tetragrammaton Records (US 1969) Great Western Gramophone (US 1973) M.I.L. Multimedia (US 1998) |
| Producer | Hugh Murphy |
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| Allmusic.com |   |
Sweet Thursday is the self-titled debut, and only, album by the late 1960s British rock band Sweet Thursday. Its chance of success was cut short by the almost-immediate failure of the record label.
The album was recorded at Trident Studios in London. It is notable for featuring keyboardist Nicky Hopkins (who worked with The Rolling Stones and The Who among many others) and Bluesbreakers alum Jon Mark (who would go on to form the group Mark-Almond). It was produced by Hugh Murphy, who later became known for his work with Gerry Rafferty. Recording and engineering was done by Barry Sheffield.
The album was originally released in the US in August 1969 on Tetragrammaton Records(catalogue T-112). (The band had signed with that label in November 1968, and the copyright on the label was from 1968.)
Radio commercials were used to promote the album and Tetragrammaton's other releases. However, by late 1969 Tetragrammaton was already headed for financial failure and bankruptcy (by legend, the same day the album was released).
Sweet Thursday's release history outside the US is less clear. It may have been originally released on Fontana Records in the UK. An initial European release in 1970 on Polydor (catalogue 2310051) appears to have been made, that featured an alternate album cover depicted a torn-off calendar page resting on a bed of leaves.
The album's style mixed typical mid- and late-1960s British rock elements such as R&B, blues, and psychedelia. The piano and organ based arrangements and slightly abstract lyric narratives also showed a pronounced debt to Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde. All but one of the album's songs were written by group members.Allmusic's Bruce Eder views "Rescue Me" as one of the better tracks, showing the influence that the group members had had, like many others in the British R&B scene, from playing in Zoot Money's Big Roll Band and the Cyril Davies All-Stars. Eder says that the band's songwriting is largely unmemorable, while Billboard magazine wrote in 1973 that the album "offers a strong mix of rock, ballads, and folky material, with strong vocals and instrumentals running throughout." In 1970, the St. Petersburg Times saw the group as "smooth" and the record worthy of inclusion in its "Unusual Albums" section.
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