一首60年代尾的代表性歌曲

Spanky & Our Gang的創始成員、吉他手、主唱Nigel Pickering五月五日在佛羅里達州聖奧古斯丁因肝癌病逝（81歲），1929年在密西根州龐帝亞克出生的Nigel，1950年代就在密爾爾基組了一個 Westernaires合唱團，後來演變成三重唱Folksters，最後在芝加哥組成了Spanky & Our Gang，並與Mercury唱片公司簽了約，這個合唱團1967年的第一張專輯有三首top 40的暢銷曲，像Sunday Will Never Be The Same(#9), Making Every Minute Count (#31) 與Lazy Day(#14)都是很好聽的歌，1968年第二張專輯則有Sunday Mornin'(#30) 與Like To Get To Know You (#17)二首暢銷曲，但其中的一首叫Give A Damn的歌儘管被紐約城市聯盟用來促進種族和諧，但因被認為使用褻瀆之語言而遭到許多電台封殺，他們後來第三張專輯推出三張單曲都無法再超過85名，1968年底吉它手Malcolm Hale猝死，接著主唱Elaine Spanky McFarlane結婚、懷孕，終於使這個合唱團宣佈解散，Spanky於1980年代還當過The Mamas And Papas合唱團的主唱，而Nigel Pickering則繼續出唱片、演低成本電影、開餐廳，還結了五次婚，在他81歲的生日聚會，他還最後一次與Spanky合唱。
我很喜歡這個合唱團，他們具民謠風味的歌路，很能代表1960年代後期的流行歌曲。




SUNDAY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

Spanky & Our Gang



Intro: singing la-da-da-da-da la-da-da-da-da-da la-da-da



I remember Sunday morning

I would meet him at the park

We'd walk toghether hand in hand

Till it was almost dark

Now I wake up Sunday morning

Walk along the lane to find

Nobody waiting for me

Sunday's just another day



REFRAIN



Sunday will never be the same

(Sunday will never be the same)

I lost my baby's heart

I must be back again (??)



Sunny afternoons that made me feel so warm inside

Have turned as cold and gray as ashes

As I feel the embers die

No longer can I walk these paths for they have changed

I must be home the sun is gone and I think it's gonna rain



REFRAIN



I remember children

Feeding flocks of pigeons

I remember sunshine and you were mine

But a-la-da-da-da-da la-da-da-da-da-da-dahhhh



REFRAIN



Fade while repeating "Sunday will never be the same"