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, late 1967: Clockwise from top left: Keith Beck, Del Paramor, Peter Mole, Martin Grice, Warren Davis, Paul Brett (wearing hat) and Paul Petts. Photo: Paul Brett
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:
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