Photograph by Eliot Elisofon from the LIFE magazine collection, February 1951
Wimple Winch was one of the more interesting bands to come out of Liverpool in the '60s after the Beatles broke, but they never had much success. Equally adept at light and heavy psych-rock, the band-members claimed later that they never thought of their music as "psychedelic" at all. They released a string of shoulda-been-hits for Fontana in 1966 and then got dropped by the label. "Lollipop Minds" is, I think, from a batch of songs the band demoed after losing their record deal, and it's one of my favorites. That first falsetto line (in a song sung entirely in falsetto) is a direct Brian Wilson rip to my ears, and it's a tag that pops up at several points in the song. Like every Wimple Winch song I've heard, it's a little crazy-sounding and not quite like any of their other songs. It's nothing like their best known song, the much heavier (but equally cool!) "Save My Soul". I think there's a Wimple Winch compilation in print - might be worth tracking down.
"Lollipop Minds" by Wimple Winch
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