Name: Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind
Brand: Polly Niles

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CRSEG063D

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-10-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

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5013929186323

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Polly Niles

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Folk

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Grapefruit

Grapefruit is a UK-based music label that specializes in psych/garage-era music from the 1966-70 timeframe. Managed by Cherry Red, Grapefruit focuses on releasing single-artist career anthologies and definitive versions of rare and classic albums. Each release features sympathetic artwork, rare photos, detailed liner notes, and high-quality sound from the original masters.

The 1970 Ember Records album by actress / model / singer / songwriter Polly Niles, was for many years the stuff of internet rumour and legend, said to exist only in test pressing form. Now, it is finally released. Polly, who later appeared in the film Super Fly (1972), was a singer / songwriter from New York married to folk revival star, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. She signed with the London-based Ember label in 1969 and recorded an album that blended her songwriting with cuts by Stephen Stills, Goffin/King, John Barry and Bob Dylan.

Producers of Polly’s album included Beau Ray Fleming, whose CV included work for Dean Courtney, Jon Lucien and Mandrill. Arrangements and conducting were by the legendary Bert DeCoteaux, later a key figure in soul / funk / disco, working with Sister Sledge, Peter Nero, Zulema, Linda Lewis and Martha Reeves. 

Only one track from Polly’s album was ever released at the time – the gently psychedelic Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind on an Ember sampler release, Future Star Explosion – New Faces Of The 70s, in 1970. The song was also recorded by fellow Ember artist Milly Scott and covered in 2012 by indie band The Primitives.

In 1970, two Polly Niles singles made it to acetate stage before being cancelled: Since I Lost You Baby / The Milk Of The Tree and Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind / Get High On Jesus. Another, If I Let You’/‘East Virginia, was cancelled prior to any manufacturing.

Over the last decade, six tracks from Polly’s Ember sessions have emerged on compilations, but now, newly remastered, they can finally be heard, as originally intended. This 2-CD set consists of twelve titles but has been expanded to over twice its original length. Also included are cancelled mono singles, alternative mixes, works in progress, and some new 2019 mixes made from the original multi-tracks. This is an artist-approved release, with Polly on board as a consultant. And for the first time, Polly’s story is told in a 3000-word liner essay by journalist, Charles Donovan. Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind has been assembled with luxurious, period-appropriate design work, with top flight remastering. The album is illustrated by Ember-era photographs from Polly’s own archives.

Sunshine In My Rainy Day Mind

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