Sugar Shack Morning Dew Rare Irish Psych 45 7” Single Thin Lizzy
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HERE IS THE VERY RARE SINGLE FROM THE IRISH BEAT GROUP, SUGAR SHACK FROM THE 1968:MORNING DEW/SUNSHINE OF YOUR SMILE.THIS IS SIGNIFICANT ALSO AS THE DRUMMER ON THIS SINGLE WOULD BECOME THE DRUMMER FOR THIN LIZZY.(read below) Sugar Shack – Morning Dew / Sunshine Of Your Love
After stints with Dublin groups including The Liffey Beats, The Black Eagles and The Burma Boys Showband, drummer Brian Downey joined Pat Fortune (bass/vocals), Brian Twomey (guitar/vocals, formerly with The Difference) and Dermot Woodfull (guitar, formerly with The Intruders) in rock band Sugar Shack in 1967. With, according to the , a repertoire of pop and blues-rock covers and some originals, the two recorded songs they left behind suggest they must have been an impressive live act.
‘Morning Dew’ was written by folk singer Bonnie Dobson, but later made famous by Tim Rose (who awarded himself a co-writing credit) and The Grateful Dead. Sugar Shack’s version may owe a debt to that by The Jeff Beck Group, also recorded in 1968, featuring strong musicianship but with vocals paling in comparison to Rod Stewart’s. Cream’s ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’ sounds better, with a real hard-rock thump and a song more suited to the singer. Through Tribune Records this single reached #17 in the Irish chart, but the band were divided on whether to follow a rock or pop route, and they split up after two years when Brian Twomey got married.
By 1969 Downey had reunited with his former Black Eagles bandmate Phil Lynott to form The Orphanage, and the two played together in another rock group during the ’70s and ’80s. Pat Fortune later turned up in country group The Ranchers and a mid-’70s line-up of showband Stage 2, not long after Dermot Woodfull had joined the Canadian-based Dublin Corporation, formerly The Pacific Showband, a familiar career path for many Irish rock musicians at the time. Woodfull apparently died in a car accident in 1976.
Vinyl is in VG condition with surface marks, it has been professionally cleaned and plays great
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