Babalu's Wedding Day / BILLY & THE ESSENTIALS 
Don't Stop / THE ENCOUNTERS
Please Say It Ain't So / THE SWINGING HEARTS
I'm In Love With A Go-Go Girl / THE INTENTIONS
We Kiss In The Shadows / THE LUVS
La La / THE COBRAS
Tell Me / PEE WEE & THE PROPHETS
Don't You Know / RICO & THE RAVENS
New Girl On My Block / JIMMY & THE CRESTONES
Small Town Girl / JIMMY TIG & THE ROUNDERS
Bristol Stomp / JR & THE ATTRACTIONS

DOO WOP IN EXILE Sampler

From: SUMMER SUNS- Eulalie (HPR-065)LP

Get it here: https://hankypankyrecords.bigcartel.com/product/summer-suns-eulalie-lp

Release date: February, 2023
Limited edition 250 copies

-	Reissue of long-out-of-print folk rock / power pop album with 2 additional tracks!


Folk rock / power pop band THE SUMMER SUNS formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1986 as one off project to release Kim Williams’ songs “Honeypearl” & “Rachel Anne”. The popularity of the single saw The Summer Suns become a more permanent fixture in the Perth scene, 1986 – 1996, releasing records on most of the world’s best indie labels including Easter, Waterfront, Bus Stop, Parasol, Spring & Get Hip.

Although plying his songwriting trade in other bands and other genres, Williams never entirely gave up on his love for melodic music. After some time playing sadcore then garage rock he formed THE LOVE LETTERS with Katherine Browne, playing music very much like The Summer Suns unplugged.

In 2013 with a stockpile of tunes he began working simultaneously on a new SUMMER SUNS album and a LOVE LETTERS album with different versions of some songs to appear on both records. With Williams playing most of the instruments and producing the recordings time took its toll. Katherine Browne quit to concentrate on her real career leaving Williams to decide what to do with the two projects. With about 30 recordings to choose from he decided to edit it down to a single project under THE SUMMER SUNS banner. Thus EULALIE was born & self released in a limited vinyl edition of 100 copies, each numbered and with a unique vinyl colour and photo taken by Kim. With literally no publicity at all the album quickly sold out.

With demand for this now impossible to find folk rock / power pop LP increasing over the years, HANKY PANKY RECORDS is set to reissue it in a limited edition of 250 copies with improved detailed cover and 2 bonus tracks!

Summer Suns - The Light

Stuff

When he first moved in back in ‘54
He could waltz around on the parquet floors
But he soon succumbed with no place to hide
He required a haven from the world outside

Well he made a start on the skip next door
Where he found a freezer so he’s now got four
And the one that works is a place of rest
For a pile of broadsheets and a mouse’s nest

And there’s no more space but he won’t be beat
So he brings in stuff from off the street
It’s the stuff he craves and thinks he needs
It’s beyond repair or plainly obsolete

As a London boy living through the blitz
He would stumble over a gift from Fritz
When a firebomb fell in the dead of night
He was first to find it in the morning light

So he told himself if he’d got some sense
He would let it linger by the neighbour’s fence
Tell his mum and dad, maybe sister Sue
But in spite of all this he knew what he’d do

And there’s no more space but he won’t be beat
So he brings in stuff from off the street
It’s the stuff he craves and thinks he needs
It’s beyond repair or plainly obsolete

And growing old is a curse: there must be nothing worse
And the hoard is a curse: because he knows what it’s worth

For years its home was a garden shed
Now it’s kept beneath him underneath the bed
And if sleep won’t come or if he can’t rest
He will hold it tightly up against his chest

So when he can’t be arsed with his meal on wheels
Or if outmanoeuvred by his ten TV’s
When the phone is lost because no one rings
He’ll unleash the firebomb upon all his things

And there’s no more space but he won’t be beat
So he brings in stuff from off the street
It’s the stuff he craves and thinks he needs
It’s beyond repair or plainly obsolete

Words and music by Geoff Smith 4th December 2017

Stuff

No Longer

It was written in the stars, predestined from the start
She was meant to die alone with a broken heart
No longer could she bear or tolerate her shame
No longer was she scared or afraid of pain

No longer
No longer 
No longer
No longer 

“Next time I’ll make damn sure” that’s what she had said
But he’d heard this all before as he tucked her up in bed
No longer could she bear or tolerate her shame
No longer was she scared or afraid of pain

No longer
No longer 
No longer
No longer 

She was spirited away but he couldn’t let her go
So a shadow fell upon the chamber of his soul
No longer could he bear or tolerate his shame
No longer was he scared or afraid of pain

No longer
No longer 
No longer
No longer 

For Tonia, November 1998
No longer

Written and performed by Geoff Smith November 2018

No Longer

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Summer Suns - The Light

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