SEALED psych LP THE CLIQUE “Sugar on Sunday” WHITE WHALE orig ‘69

$

30

Artist:  THE CLIQUE                                

Title:  “Sugar on Sunday”

Label:   WHITE WHALE ~ # WW 7126.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  

Year:  1969.

Condition: 

Album is STILL SEALED in original factory shrink wrap.  Shrink wrap has several rips, as shown in photos.  Corners have been lightly bumped.  No writing, stickers, seam splits or cutout marks.  Not a perfect sealed copy, but the disc is definitely unplayed.                     

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Sugar on Sunday
• My Darkest Hour
• Holiday
• Hallelujah
• I’ll Hold Out My Hand
• Judy, Judy, Judy

Side Two:

• Little Miss Lucy
• (There Ain’t) No Such Thing as Love
• Superman
• Soul Mates
• Shadow of Your Love

Review:

The sole album by the Clique is in reality the last full album cult hero Gary Zekley would produce. (Though the Austin-based band, also renowned in garage-psych circles for the first known cover of a Roky Erickson song, had recorded several previous singles, they did not play on the album; only singer Randy Shaw appears, with backing vocalists and musicians pulled from Zekley's usual stable of L.A. session pros.)  Although the album spawned a Top 40 hit in the Tommy James-penned "Sugar on Sunday" and is best known for containing the original "Superman," an underground garage rock classic given a new commercial life when R.E.M. covered it on Life’s Rich Pageant, it's not really Zekley's best work.  By 1969, Zekley's brand of sunshine pop was out of commercial favor, and too much of The Clique is taken up with blatant copies of the current AM chart favorites.  "Hallelujah!" is a blatant Blood, Sweat & Tears rip-off, and "Judy Judy Judy" is pure Three Dog Night (with the "Sock it to me!" chorus shamelessly added to tie into Laugh-In star Judy Carne's popularity).  For all the shameless hucksterism, though, Zekley still manages a few gems, particularly the Tommy James-like "Little Miss Lucy" and the hyper-dramatic "My Darkest Hour."  (The cover of the Bee Gees' "Holiday" is nice, too, though it adds little to the original.)  And, true, "Superman" deserves every bit of its acclaim; it's by far the best song on the album.  The Clique is perfectly listenable and occasionally terrific, but this is not Zekley at the peak of his powers; try the Yellow Balloon's self-titled disc or the Fun and Games' Elephant Candy for that.”

(courtesy Stewart Mason, allmusic.com.)

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