Glam glee from act who were known as Express Delivery a mere year before
Label: Bumble
Year of Release: 1972
Sometimes while rooting around record stores and eBay, I stumble upon singles which clearly had serious backing and familiar names attached. And that's exactly what we've got here - a Carter, Lewis and Alquist songwriting credit and a Barry Blue production (aka Barry Green) all of which should add up to a sizeable hit.
That wasn't to be, though, and while in fairness "Ayeo" doesn't sound like 1972's definite monster single, it's groovy, neat and nagging enough that you can only suspect that it might have crept through under other circumstances. The fact it was issued as the tiny independent Bumble label's second single probably won't have helped, leaving its fate to a new, inexperienced outfit who had yet to firmly establish themselves (and as it turned out, never really did).
The flip side, the oddly titled "A Heavy Drinking Ego Shrinking Doctor" is a Rolling Stones-esque groove which isn't quite as freaky as its title would suggest.
The Peepers were almost certainly Express Delivery under another name. The press pictures distributed at the time revealed exactly the same set of gentlemen, and the flipside of that group's solitary 45 "Lazy Butterfly" is written by the very same people. Where they went after this is something of a mystery, though.
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