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Sweet Thursday was a short-lived late-1960s English rock band. The group included famed session keyboard player Nicky Hopkins , who had worked with The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , Jeff Beck , and many others; folk guitarist, singer, and past session man Alun Davies (subsequently a frequent collaborator of Cat Stevens '); and ...
- 1968–1969
Personnel. References. Sweet Thursday (album) Sweet Thursday is the self-titled debut, and only, album by the late 1960s British rock band Sweet Thursday. Its chance of success was cut short by the almost-immediate failure of the record label. History. The album was recorded at Trident Studios in London. [3] .
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- 1969
- Hugh Murphy
- Rock
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In the wake of World War II, Steinbeck left California for New York City and divorced his second wife Gwyn Conger Steinbeck in 1948. He married the actress Elaine Scott and became interested in writing for the theater, writing the play Burning Bright. Produced by Rodgers and Hammerstein, the play opened on Broadway in October 1950 and closed after ...
Doc returns to a failed Western Biological Laboratories and a changed Cannery Rowafter serving in the army during World War II. Mack and the Boys are still living in the Palace Flophouse, but Lee Chong has sold his general store to Joseph and Mary Rivas. Since the death of its original owner Dora, the local brothel, The Bear Flag Restaurant, is now...
The novel was adapted into the 1955 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical Pipe Dream, which was nominated for nine Tony Awards but which was one of their unsuccessful shows, only lasting as long as the pre-reviews, advance ticket sale, a first for one of their musicals. In 2011, Smithsonian Magazineranked it as #1 among the all-time Broadway flo...
Doc is a marine biologist who runs a biological specimens business, Western Biological Laboratories, who collects, prepares and markets specimens of fish and mammals for research and dissection. He is back from World War II and is feeling melancholy and lonely when he launches into research of octopii. Suzy is a young woman from San Francisco who a...
In 1960 Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn wrote and recorded Suite Thursdayinspired by the Steinbeck novel and dedicated to the author.The song "Sweet Thursday" from California singer/songwriter Matt Costa's 2006 release Songs We Sing is an allusion to the work. The song also incorporates aspects of other Steinbeck works including...British supergroup Sweet Thursday (band)named themselves after the novel.Morsberger, Robert E. "'Pipe Dream' or Not So Sweet Thursday." Steinbeck Quarterly 21.03-04 (Summer/Fall 1988): 85–96.
31. Jan. 2010 · Sweet Thursday was a short-lived late-1960s English rock band. It included famed session keyboards player Nicky Hopkins, folk guitarist Alun Davies (subsequently a frequent collaborator of Cat Stevens') and composer Jon Mark (later of Mark-Almond). Other members were Harvey Burns and Bri… read more. psychedelic rock. progressive rock. folk rock.
A short-lived minor-league supergroup of sorts, Sweet Thursday featured supersessionman Nicky Hopkins on keyboards and Jon Mark (of Bluesbreakers fame) on vocals and guitar. Their sole, self-titled album… Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1960s. Formed. 1968. Disbanded. 1969. Genre. Pop/Rock. Styles. Folk-Rock. Biography. Discography.
