Baby What You Want Me To Do

For their second single, they moved to another EMI label, Parlophone Records (the Beatles’ record company in Britain) and adopted a more pop-oriented sound reminiscent of another Parlophone band, the Hollies, releasing “I, I, I Want Your Lovin’” b/w “She Only Wants a Friend”.  For the final single by the Sons of Fred for Parlophone in 1966, they went back to R&B for “Baby What You Want Me To Do” b/w “You Told Me”. 

The Sons of Fred performed “Sweet Love” on the pioneering British rock/pop program, Ready Steady Go! (probably in June 1965) and also lip-synched “Baby What You Want Me To Do” on another TV show, Thank Your Lucky Stars on March 5, 1966. 

(March 2014/2)