Lucille'Let Me Be Your Plaything' c/w 'I Submit To Thee, My Lord and Master'
Released 23rd June 1967. Immediate IMS 0234
"I'll do anything you want me too,
I'll swallow up the stars,
If you let me be your plaything,
I'll take us both to Mars"
Lucille had been a waitress in The Belles Bottom Cafe in Denmark Street and, due to her habit of singing to herself as she waited on tables, she was discovered by producer Mickey Smacke. Says Mickey today : "She was a lovely looking, blonde, big chested chick with a terrible voice but I knew that with the right song we could plug that gap in the market for a psychedelic dolly bird type". 'Let Me Be Your Plaything' was to be her first single and, sadly, her last.
Mickey again : "We hired Pop Sounds Studio in Tottenham Court Road and brought in the boys from Terry Quick & Baroque & Roll to do the backing. This song needed a sprinkling of fairy dust and I reckoned that massed harpsichords would do the trick.
"The session went really well and Lucille had obviously taken a shine to Jimmy Pilgrim, who was a good looking, handsome, sexy boy with a great body. Not too much hair. Very firm chest". As the group were packing up their gear, Lucille was sitting on a window ledge and casually asked Jimmy if they might see each other again.
Recalls Mickey: "Jimmy turned around to reply and knocked Lucille clean out the window with his virginal. Three floors. Bam. She was dead before she hit the ground".
"Jimmy was really upset, obviously", says Mickey. "So, after he'd packed his gear away he went down to have a look to see if he could help, but by that time it was too late. Jimmy had hoped that one day they might be married, but obviously, seeing as he'd knocked her out a window, it wasn't to be".
One good thing did come out of this tragedy, though. Terry Quick was so impressed with the backing track he and his group had laid down, that they later wiped Lucille's vocal track and released it as an instrumental entitled 'Lucille Has Gone Away' on the b-side of their third single 'Brown Drinks'.
Mickey again : "We hired Pop Sounds Studio in Tottenham Court Road and brought in the boys from Terry Quick & Baroque & Roll to do the backing. This song needed a sprinkling of fairy dust and I reckoned that massed harpsichords would do the trick.
"The session went really well and Lucille had obviously taken a shine to Jimmy Pilgrim, who was a good looking, handsome, sexy boy with a great body. Not too much hair. Very firm chest". As the group were packing up their gear, Lucille was sitting on a window ledge and casually asked Jimmy if they might see each other again.
Recalls Mickey: "Jimmy turned around to reply and knocked Lucille clean out the window with his virginal. Three floors. Bam. She was dead before she hit the ground".
"Jimmy was really upset, obviously", says Mickey. "So, after he'd packed his gear away he went down to have a look to see if he could help, but by that time it was too late. Jimmy had hoped that one day they might be married, but obviously, seeing as he'd knocked her out a window, it wasn't to be".
One good thing did come out of this tragedy, though. Terry Quick was so impressed with the backing track he and his group had laid down, that they later wiped Lucille's vocal track and released it as an instrumental entitled 'Lucille Has Gone Away' on the b-side of their third single 'Brown Drinks'.
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