Vashti

Vashti Bunyan remains among the more elusive artists tied to Immediate Records, owing to an output that amounted to barely one lone single. Her greatest visibility came through an appearance in the documentary Tonite Let's All Make Love in London, a film few cinema-goers ever encountered. Andrew Oldham discovered her among his mid-1960s finds and supplied the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards number "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" for a 1965 Decca single he himself produced. The following year she moved to EMI/Columbia and issued the commercially overlooked coupling "Train Song" b/w "Love Song." Oldham nevertheless persisted, guiding her through extensive sessions that spanned 1966 to 1968. From that period only one track reached the public: "Winter Is Blue," placed on the soundtrack of Peter Whitehead's documentary film Tonite Let's All Make Love in London. She also supplied backing vocals for a single cut on the second Twice As Much album, That's All. Mounting frustration over the lack of further releases under her own name finally led her away from Oldham's circle. She then joined Philips and delivered an album issued under her full name of Vashti Bunyan. Scattered additional tracks have since appeared on modern anthologies of Jagger/Richards material recorded by others, while the possible recovery of Immediate masters may yet bring to light the recordings Oldham declined to release.