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The label says The Shindigs and the tracks are called Now the loneliness / Cut glass and diamonds. The shindigs that recorded on Parlophone were a male beat group of little note. These are different and have a female lead singer. Different Shindigs perhaps? Its on Emidisc. The only other Shindigs i know of were something to do with pre- Deep Purple but they were all male too.

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It's a lovely song and on listening again I 'm inclined to agree that this is probably a singer for whom English is a second language. There aren't many female European singers from the 60/70s I would recognise - Helen Schneider and Mina are exceptions and it's not either of them. Style suggests French or Italian.

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12 hours ago, Chris Garner said:

The label says The Shindigs and the tracks are called Now the loneliness / Cut glass and diamonds. The shindigs that recorded on Parlophone were a male beat group of little note. These are different and have a female lead singer. Different Shindigs perhaps? Its on Emidisc. The only other Shindigs i know of were something to do with pre- Deep Purple but they were all male too.

Thanks for the info! Yes, it doesn't really shed much extra light does it, haha.
Is the flip in the same style?

7 hours ago, Dukeburgundy said:

It's a lovely song and on listening again I 'm inclined to agree that this is probably a singer for whom English is a second language. There aren't many female European singers from the 60/70s I would recognise - Helen Schneider and Mina are exceptions and it's not either of them. Style suggests French or Italian.

I don't think Italian, because Italian girl singers tend to have quite brash vocal style, in contrast with the smooth relaxed style here.
A bit of a leftfield suggestion, but what if the vocalist is South African? Although it's definitely not her, I can imagine Dana Valery might enunciate in a similar way if she was singing this song.

 

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Thanks Chris! What a lovely song, and so many hooks....I'm surprised this wasn't released, or even covered by someone else (I can imagine either a Jackie Trent-type singer or a Francoise Hardy-type singer doing well with this...not that the actual vocalist here doesn't do a great job of course)

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Two really nice tunes. And I'd strongly suggest a British - in fact, an English vocalist and recording. The arrangement, particularly with those horns, sounds classically British 60s soul/pop to me.

And I wonder if it might possibly be the same vocalist as on this unreleased take of the Truly Smith MGM rarity "This is the first time". Maybe?

 

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1 hour ago, Chris Garner said:

Did you hear both sides 

Sorry, yes, the flip nice too! "Now the loneliness" is definitely the stronger of the two though.

53 minutes ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

Two really nice tunes. And I'd strongly suggest a British - in fact, an English vocalist and recording. The arrangement, particularly with those horns, sounds classically British 60s soul/pop to me.

And I wonder if it might possibly be the same vocalist as on this unreleased take of the Truly Smith MGM rarity "This is the first time". Maybe?

 

I don't think it's the same vocalist, but that was a nice listen!
And yes definitely an English production, but the vocalist could have been some other nationality, recording in the UK.

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