Product Description
Having compiled the singles of such hit-happy artists as Gary Lewis & the Playboys and the Grass Roots, Real Gone Music now turns its attention to another quintessential ‘60s singles band, Spanky and Our Gang, with a 21-track collection that includes every unique A and B-side the band released on Mercury during their spectacular 1966-69 stint with the label! Led by Elaine “Spanky” McFarlane, Spanky and Our Gang had a folk-pop sound oft-compared to the Mamas and the Papas, but their harmonies and arrangements were, if anything, a little more sophisticated and varied, incorporating pop and jazz influences (while admittedly lacking a songwriter of the stature of John Phillips). As a result, the music of Spanky & Our Gang has aged better than many of their more self-consciously psychedelic contemporaries; there is a timeless quantity to their sound that explains why songs like “Sunday Will Never Be the Same,” “Lazy Day,” and “Like to Get to Know You” have remained fixtures on oldies radio over the years. You’ll hear all those songs and every other unique single side (include two differently-titled and mixed versions of Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’”) in their original mono single mixes on this collection, which includes liner notes by co-producer Ed Osborne that feature fresh interviews with Spanky McFarlane, producers Jerry Ross and Bob Dorough and arranger Jimmy Wisner along with some great photos. The definitive Spanky and Our Gang single-CD retrospective!

1. And Your Bird Can Sing
2. Sealed with a Kiss
3. Sunday Will Never Be the Same
4. Distance
5. Making Every Minute Count
6. If You Could Only Be Me
7. Lazy Day
8. (It Ain’t Necessarily) Byrd Avenue
9. Sunday Morning
10. Echoes
11. Like to Get to Know You
12. Three Ways from Tomorrow
13. Give a Damn
14. The Swingin’ Gate
15. Yesterday’s Rain
16. Without Rhyme or Reason
17. Anything You Choose
18. Mecca Flat Blues
19. And She’s Mine
20. Leopard Skin Phones
21. Everybody’s Talkin’

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I really thought they were a 1 hit band (at least in Seattle they were)

Sunday Will Never Be the Same

"Lazy Day" and "Like To Get To Know You" were also top 20.

Forgot about Lazy Day. I've never heard the other that i am aware of, & I was listening to lots of AM radio in that period.

I just thought "Complete Singles" was a bit of an oxymoron.

"Give A Damn" also got airplay, although some stations banned it because of the title and subject matter.

I think Spanky and Our Gang are one of the great groups of the 60's. Spanky McFarlane has a voice that can belt out the blues one minute and sound so vulnerable the next it can almost break your heart. The other guys in the group were no slouches either, and their records are filled with inventive arrangements and production. Their Anything You Choose/Without Rhyme or Reason album is a forgotten classic.

I do remember the hits but had nothing else.
This is a must- have for me.

Sunday Morning was always my favorite - not such a hit but my favorite never-the-less.

I splurged and picked up Hip-O Select's Complete Mercury Recordings which included all their albums (including their "Greatest Hit(s)", along with the single a- and b- sides. I won't be getting this, but it looks real good.

Completely unrelated: I know a guy who'll swear up and down that Spanky & Our Gang was a hoax band - that they're really the Jefferson Airplane masquerading as a bunch of hippies (because the Jefferson Airplane weren't hippies, ya know?)

As far as conspiracy theories go, I suppose it's pretty harmless.