Biography
In 1966 the five members John Curtis, Mick Gill, Graham Hunt, Bryan Sebastian and Mark Tuddenham assembled Cherry Smash in Gosport, Hampshire, England. Their opening release arrived the following year on Track Records as the single ‘Sing Songs Of Love’, a number Mike Hugg—Sebastian’s brother—and Mick Gill had written expressly for the group. Presented as a melodramatic, syrupy pop song, the track entered the soundtrack of Manfred Mann’s Up The Junction and brought the band a measure of national attention. Gill exited prior to the switch to Decca Records, where the 1968 single ‘Goodtime Sunshine’/‘Little Old Country Home Town’, again composed by Hugg, appeared. That record failed to extend the initial momentum, and after issuing one further single, ‘Fade Away Maureen’, the group disbanded.
Singles