The Warren Davis Monday Band – part 2

By Nick Warburton

During The Warren Davis Monday Band’s short-lived career, the group were briefly associated with Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, who produced and co-wrote the A-side of their debut 45; were raved about by Hammond organist Booker T, who caught them one night in London during the spring ’67 Stax-Volt European tour; briefly included future Canadian rock legend, musician, record producer, composer, songwriter and arranger David Foster; and were the subject of a disastrous tabloid story, which reported they had signed a £500,000 contract with 20th Century Fox to make a TV series in California to compete with The Monkees.

Warren Davis Monday Band, Summer 67, left to right: Martin Grice, Del Paramor, Warren Davis, Peter Mole, David Foster, Bruce Usherwood and Mick Patel. Photo: Bruce Usherwood

The one consistent thread throughout The Warren Davis Monday Band’s fascinating, yet tangled, career was former actor/model, turned singer Max Spinks (aka Warren Davis). It is his distinctive voice that links the dozen or so recordings that feature on a forthcoming CD anthology from US collectors’ label Lion Productions, which brings together pretty much everything the group cut between late 1966 and early 1968: thestrangebrew.co.uk/articles/the-warren-davis-monday-band-part-2