Label: Parlophone
Year of Release: 1966
Nish. Nowt. Zero. That's all the information I have available to me on this sixties artist, who released three flop singles during the middle part of the decade - "I Keep Thinking About You" and "Everybody Tries" in 1965, and this one in 1966.
And that's a shame, because the B-side I'm presenting here, "When I'm Gonna Find Her" has since become a choice Northern Soul spin among those in the know, so favoured in fact that this bootleg reissue leaked out on to the marketplace a number of years ago. It's no surprise to see the track being admired by that crowd - "Find Her" is filled to the brim with all the yearning that great Northern Soul tracks have, but behind that is a minimalist arrangement and creeping bassline which gives the song a haunted feel, as if a stalking and faded phantom has buried itself away in the grooves.
The A-side "When Evening Falls" isn't bad either, being a much more uptempo number and showing that Loyd, whoever he was, could pack a punch vocally.
I doubt we'll get to the bottom of his identity, but if anyone knows who he is, please leave a comment.
5 comments:
Superb !!!
Really for collectors
Greetings Albert
Hope this helps. Mark L(l)oyd was Australian.
http://www.priestfamily.co.uk/13465.html
Thanks Arthur, that's a huge help! I had absolutely no idea.
a deee-liteful intro on one of these songs!
Mark was a vocalist with myself in the 60s Southend on Sea group The Monotones. We then joined Mecca and were renamed The Treetops. I did backing vocals on Where You Gonna Find Her in a Denmark Street studio.
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