The Most Famous Turntable Hit Of Them All !

McWilliams made his first single in 1966, and was lifted to a higher
profile throughout the U.K. by Phil Solomon, an influential Irish manager
who had worked with Them and the Bachelors. In 1967 McWilliams managed to
record three albums which tickled the lower regions of the British album charts, with the second, Vol. 2, almost making the Top 20. These albums were produced and arranged by Mike Leander, who had already proven his facility for mixing pop/rock with classical-influenced orchestration on records by Marianne Faithfull. "Days of Pearly Spencer" got a lot of airplay on Radio Caroline, Radio Luxembourg and BBC Radio One when it was released at the end of 1967, and is well remembered by listeners of the time, but somehow did not make it onto the U.K. charts, although it was a big hit in several European countries.