60's Pop Duos Part 5: State Of Micky & Tommy

Okay, so the final part of my "60's Pop Duos" series have arrived. Now we're going to talk about the State Of Micky & Tommy, a little duo consisting of Tommy Brown & Micky Jones (Later of Foreigner; even if this is 200 times better that anything Foreigner ever recorded). These two guys earlier worked as session musicians for French musicians like Johnny Hallyday and Francoise Hardy, and now decided to record some singles.

Denny Laine- Say You Don't Mind

Dutch picture sleeve. (note how they forgot to write 'the' between 'ask' and 'people')

Denny Laine, a real jack-of-all-trades, or at least a jack-of-all-genres or something like that, and yet he's so underrated and he's been a member of so many groups (The Diplomats, Moody Blues and Wings etc.). In 1967, after quitting the Moodies, he released this piece of freakbeat/popsike on the Deram label.

Ad from a newspaper.

'Say You Don't Mind' is a great example on the music scene in 1967, and one of my favourite records from that year. It failed to chart when it was released but climbed to #15 on the UK Singles Chart in 1972 when The Zombies vocalist Colin Blunstone covered it.

Denny tripping on some LSD/pot while performing the song on French TV in -67