Sweet Thursday (Album)

Occupation

• Vocal / Guitar: Jon Mark
• Vocal / Guitar: Alun Davies
• Keyboard instruments, organ, piano: Nicky Hopkins
• Bass guitar, woodwinds, flute Brian Odgers
• Drums: Harvey Burns

Sweet Thursday is the debut album of the same folk rock band, founded in 1968 by Jon Mark, Nicky Hopkins, Alun Davies, Harvey Burns and Brian Odgers. The distribution and sale of the album suffered from a contemporaneous with the publication of the bankruptcy record company, to which the band has dissolved.

History

" Sweet Thursday " is the second album jointly issued the two school friends Jon Mark and Alun Davies, who received in 1963 the folk album "Relax Your Mind". 1968 formed the band " Sweet Thursday " the two together with Nicky Hopkins, Harvey Burns and Brian Odgers. In December 1968, was released by the label " Tetragrammaton " their first with " Sweet Thursday " rehearsed single " Getting It Together " (A- side) and " Mary On The Runaround " (B-side ). The two composed by Jon Mark songs missing from the debut album " Sweet Thursday ," but are included on a CD edition of the album as a bonus track.

The sales and success of the published in 1969 debut album " Sweet Thursday " was the simultaneous bankruptcy of the record company to the victim. This was followed by Jon Mark of John Mayall engaged, on the albums "The Turning Point" and " Empty Rooms " Mark played along before 1970, together with Johnny Almond formed the folk-rock - jazz band Mark- Almond, who also Alun Davies belonged in 1973, which in was the 1970s, best known as the guitarist of Cat Stevens ' band.

Title list

Occupation

• Jon Mark: guitar, vocals
• Nicky Hopkins: Keyboards, Organ, Piano
• Alun Davies: guitar, vocals
• Brian Odgers: Bass guitar, woodwinds, flute
• Harvey Burns: Drums