After auditioning the Klubs at a nightclub called the Pink Flamingo, Vic Smith signed them to a management deal with Don Arden’s company Aquarius. As a result, in early 1968, the Klubs again sort of followed in the Beatles’ footsteps and arrived at Decca Records – actually, Decca had famously decided against signing the Fab Four – where four tracks were laid down according to company records. Two were covers of the Beatles’ “Drive My Car” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” – the latter song (apparently recorded at a later time) is the only cover song on the Midnight Love Cycle CD – plus their own songs “Midnight Love Cycle” and “Ever Needed Someone”. “Midnight Love Cycle” also became the title of their retrospective albums.
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Of all the meanings that “Midnight Love Cycle” might have, the song turns out to be about a bicycle. As stated in the liner notes, “Midnight Love Cycle” bears more than a passing resemblance to the May 1967 psychedelic single “My White Bicycle” by Tomorrow. However, the Klubs claim never to have heard this song.
(July 2013)
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YouTube has several songs by the Klubs. This is the dreamy psychedelic “A” side of their only 45, “I Found the Sun”, and the band would be worth remembering for this song alone: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlS5vvs-KLE . Another winner, “Can’t Ebenezer See My Mind?” has wyld lyrics in keeping with the title: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX5UxktFfQ8 . This is the title song “Midnight Love Cycle” from their reissue album whose lyrics recall Tomorrow’s “My White Bicycle”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NCBTHxWVWU .
(July 2015)
