The Time
Singles
Take A Bit Of Notice (Danny Barbour) /
Every Now And Then (Danny Barbour)
(Pye 7N 17019) January 1966
The First Time I Saw The Sun Shine (Danny Barbour / John Glenfield / Kevin Finn) /
Annabel (Danny Barbour)
(Pye 7N 17146) 22nd July 1966
Compilation Album
Ready, Steady, Stop! Doin’ The Mod Volume 4
(Castle CMRCD 535) 2002
A compilation CD featuring The First Time I Saw The Sun Shine by The Time.
Wishful Thinking
Singles
Count To Ten (Doug Flett / Guy Fletcher) /
Hang Around Girl (Doug Flett / Guy Fletcher)
(Decca F 12598) 1967
Cherry, Cherry (Neil Diamond) /
Peanuts (Luis Guerrero)
(Decca F 12627) 1967
Meet The Sun (Doug Flett / Guy Fletcher) /
Easier Said Than Loving You (Wishful Thinking)
(Decca F 12673) 1967
It's So Easy (Dave Watkins) /
I Want You Girl (Bob Potter / Philip Bailey / Roger Charles)
(Decca F 12760) 1968
Alone (Morton Craft / Selma Craft) /
Vegetables (Brian Wilson)
(Decca F 22742) 1968
Without A Place To Go (Doug Flett / Guy Fletcher) /
Waterfall (Philip Bailey / Roger Charles)
(Metronome M 25210) 1970
Hiroshima (Dave Morgan) /
She Belongs To The Night (Dave Morgan)
(Global Records / Phonogram 6004 991 and Global Records / Intercord 22 506-0) 1971
Lu La Le Lu (Klaus Voorman) /
We're Gonna Change All This (Dave Morgan)
(B&C Records CB169) 1972
Clear White Light (Alan Hull) /
Hiroshima (Dave Morgan)
(B&C Records CB184) 1972
Hiroshima (Dave Morgan) /
She Belongs To The Night (Dave Morgan)
(Atlantic ATL 10 668) 1975
Clear White Light (Alan Hull) /
Horizons (Patrina Lordon)
(Atlantic ATL 10 949) 1977
America (Frithjof Krepp / Geoff Bastow / Heinz-Dieter Brand-Gudat / John Franklin / Tony Collier / Kevin Finn) /
You Lay Me Down (John Franklin / Tony Collier / Kevin Finn)
(Atlantic ATL 11 222) 1978
Hiroshima (Dave Morgan) /
She Belongs To The Night (Dave Morgan)
(Global Records and Tapes 0033.208) 1979
State Fair Majorette (John Franklin / Tony Collier / Kevin Finn) / Crash At Honolulu (Dave Morgan)
(Global Records and Tapes 0033.215) 1979
Tightrope Man (Dave Howman / Gavin Dare) /
(It's All About) Loving You (Tony Collier / Kevin Finn / John Franklin)
(Global Records and Tapes 0033.228) 1980
Hiroshima (Special Mix) /
America (Special Mix)
(Global Records and Tapes 0933.201) 1982
Hiroshima /
America
(Global Records and Tapes 107 165-100) 1985
Hiroshima /
Hiroshima (90er-Mix)
(Global Records and Tapes 113 132) 1990
EP
Long Live Rock
Side 1: Billy Fury, Long Live Rock / Wishful Thinking, It'll Be Me
Side 2: Billy Fury, A Thousand Stars / Eugene Wallace, Slow Down
(Ronco MR EP001) 1973
CD Single
Hiroshima (Special Mix) / America (Special Mix) / State Fair Majorette
(Global Records and Tapes 662 024) 1989
Albums
Live Vol: 1
(Decca LP SKL 4900) 1967
(Deram CD PHCR-4237) 1996
In the sleeve notes to Under The Silent Tree, David Wells described this album as "a collection of so-so harmony beat / pop cover versions of material initially cut by The Four Seasons, The Beach Boys et al."
In 1996 the original 1967 album was re-released on CD in Japan.
Side 1: Step By Step | Big Girls Don't Cry | Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow | Turning Around | Hang Around Girl | California Girls | Reach Out (I'll Be There)
Side 2: Walk Away Renee | Happy Together | Is She A Woman Now? | Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) | Peanuts | The Exodus Song | Cherry, Cherry
Hiroshima
(B&C Records LP CAS 1038) 6th August 1971
(Midi Star-Collection MID 20 105) 1976
(Prog Temple CD PTCD8003) 6th November 2012
Hiroshima was produced by Lou Reizner, who had produced Rod Stewart's first two albums, An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down and Gasoline Alley.
According to Mojo magazine, Reizner "not only shaped... Hiroshima but provided the voiceover on the title track, repeating the words of the actual broadcast that reported the first atomic bomb attack in August 1945." (Mojo, No. 216, November 2011)
In 1972 Reizner produced an orchestral version of Pete Townshend's rock opera Tommy, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra with the English Chamber Choir and host of stars including Madeline Bell, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart and Steve Winwood. He went on to produce Rick Wakeman's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (1974) and the soundtrack to the film All This And World War II (1976). He died in London of stomach cancer on 26th June 1977.
Reviewing the Hirsohima album in Record Mirror, Valerie Mabbs wrote: "Somewhat disappointing, this collection, better tracks being She Belongs To The Night and the more pop based Goodbye Lover, which has stronger lead vocal and a hint of past harmonies." (Record Mirror, 7th August 1971, page 7)
Side 1: Hiroshima | This Time Tomorrow | She Belongs To The Night | Mary Goodbye | Ever Since I Can Remember | We're Gonna Change All This
Side 2: Now | The United States of Europe 79 | I Wrote A Song | 1984 | Goodbye Lover
That'll Be The Day (film soundtrack)
Wishful Thinking appeared in the film That'll Be The Day, starring David Essex as Jim MacLaine. "What's the band like?" he asked. "Not bad" came the reply. The song that they performed (as the band the Debonaires) is the old Cliff Richard and the Shadows hit It'll Be Me. The song appears on Side 4 (Disc 2) of the soundtrack album. Wishful Thinking also provided the backing for five songs by Billy Fury, which also appear on Side 4 (Disc 2).
Side 4: David Essex, Rock On | Billy Fury, A Thousand Stars | Viv Stanshall, Real Leather Jacket | Billy Fury, Long Live Rock | Stormy Tempest, What In The World (Shoop) | Billy Fury, That's All Right Mama | Eugene Wallace, Slow Down | Billy Fury, Get Yourself Together | Billy Fury, What'd I Say | Wishful Thinking, It'll Be Me
Wishful Thinking
(Global Records and Tapes LP 206 731-270 / CD 259 311-217) 1979
This LP, later released as a CD (259 311-217), was also re-released with the title Hiroshima.
Side 1: State Fair Majorette | Clear White Light | America | She Belongs To The Night | Crash At Honolulu
Side 2: Hiroshima | I Wrote A Song | Now | 1984 | Goodbye Lover
Step By Step
(Frost Records WISH1) 18th December 2007
A compilation CD featuring tracks by the Emeralds and Wishful Thinking, including some previously unreleased material.
The Emeralds
Tracks: The Kerry Dancers | Little White Lies | Don't Listen To Your Friends | Say You're Mine | King Lonely The Blue | Someone Else's Fool
Wishful Thinking
Tracks: Turning Round | V.I.P.| Step By Step | Looking Around | Count To Ten | Hang Around Girl | Cherry, Cherry | Peanuts | Meet The Sun | Easier Said Than Loving You | Alone | Vegetables | It's So Easy | I Want You Girl
Bonus tracks: Wonderful Day | Hush | Personality | Top Of The World | If You Don't Want My Love | Walk Away Renee | We Can Sing Together | We're Back In Britain
Believing In Dreams
August 2009
An album recorded in Scotland in 2009, containing a mix of brand new songs and some older tracks.
When You Dance | Manhattan Lights | Hiroshima | Broken Horse | Black Is White | Shine A Light | Believing In Dreams | State Fair Majorette | Dance With Me (live at Lakeside) | Carry On | Jesse | You Know What I'm Like | Make A Fool Out Of Me | Forever's Getting Shorter | America
Compilation Albums
Many compilation albums and CDs have been released featuring tracks by Wishful Thinking. A selection of these are listed below. For a complete discography visit The Official German Wishful Thinking website.
Beatfreak! Vol. 3
(Particles PARTCD4062) 2016
Tracks: The Boston Show Band, Wow, Wow, Wow | The Guards, Fantastic Fair | Isle Of Wight Cherokees, I Feel Good | The Good Vibrations, Sweet, Sweet, Sugar, Sugar | The Four Pennies, Square Peg | Mick & Malcolm, Big Black Smoke | The Ivy League, In The Not Too Distant Future | Evil Eyes, Mister Mystified | Steve Darbishire, Holiday In Wakiki | Chris Andrews, Hold On | Loudwater Tern, Senorita | Wishful Thinking, Hang Around Girl | Danny Diaz & The Checkmates, Solomon Grundy | The Tremors, Little Liza Jane | John Deen & The Trakk, Looking Down On My Friends | Mike Raynor & The Condors, I'm Going Down | The Times, Think About The Times | Five's Company, Session Man | The Cymbaline, Can You Hear Me
Fading Yellow, Volume 9: The Other Side Of Life
(Flower Machine Records FMRCD 1009) 2007
Tracks: Pop Workshop, Fairyland | The Marianne, As For Marionettes | Susie Klee, Punch And Judy Girl | Brendan Phillips, Is It Worth A Try? | Pussyfoot, Hasty Words | Hogarth, Suzie's Gettin' Married | Tony Ritchie, Rain On My Window | Jumbo, Promises | John Pantry, Wash Myself Away | Paul Vigrass, Stop! | Dave Christie, Penepole Breedlove | Christian, Other Side Of Life | Christian, She | Tapestry, Like The Sun | Andy Forray, Sarah Jane | Rodney Bewes, Dear Mother Love Albert | Gary Hamilton, Let The Music Play | Mike Leslie, Office Girl | Micky Jones and Tommy Brown, If I Could Be Sure | Jon, Polly Sunday | Timon, And Now She Says She Is Young | Wishful Thinking, Clear White Light | Brendan Phillips, When She's Kissing Me | Bill Fay, [Unrelesed Acetate] | Paul Layton, Sing Sadman Sing
Fairytales Can Come True, Volume 5: Steppin' Through An Empty Time
(Psychic Circle PCCD7035)
Tracks: Sleepy, Mrs. Bailey's Barbecue And Grill | Francis Lai, Keep It Cool | Mec Op Singers, Stop The Machine | Rokes, Ride On | Pattersons, I Can Fly | Dorian & The Mackensies, Stay With Me | The Love Affair, She Smiled Sweetly | Katch 22, Baby Love | Spacetrack, Steppin' Through An Empty Time | Dave Anthony's Moods, Fading Away | Rifkin, Contintental Hesitation | Crown's Clan, No Place For Our Minds | David McNeil, My Love | Merseys, The Cat | Sound Network, How About Now | Malcolm Holland, Dawning Of The Day | Rattles, Mister / Keep Your Hands Off My Sister | Wishful Thinking, She Belongs To The Night | Keith Field, The Day That War Broke Out | Montanas, Hey Diddle Diddle
Peephole In My Brain: The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1971
(Grapefruit Records CRSEG076T) 21st August 2020
A 71-track compilaion featuring Hiroshima by Wishful Thinking, featuring Danny Finn (CD 1, Track 23). Other tracks of interest include Mr. Middleton's Lament by Corn and Seed Merchants, featuring Brian Engel (CD 1, Track 4), and Goodbye Post Office Tower Goodbye by Cressida, featuring Paul Layton (CD 1, Track 10).
CD 1: Dana Gillespie, Andy Warhol (1971 Promo Album Version) | Kevin Ayers and The Whole World, Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes | The Hollies, Hey Willy | Corn and Seed Merchants, Mr. Middleton's Lament | Stray, Dearest Eloise | Help Yourself, Deborah | Stackridge, Dora, The Female Explorer | Barclay James Harvest, Ursula (The Swansea Song) | Samurai, More Rain | Cressida, Goodbye Post Office Tower Goodbye | The Move, Tonight | Fickle Pickle, Down Smokey Lane | Shape Of The Rain, Woman | Unicorn, Going Back Home | Factory, Castle On The Hill | Magna Carta, Time For The Leaving | Legend, I Feel Like Sleeping | Michael Chapman, Indian Queens | Edgar Broughton Band, Hotel Room | Peter Cowap, Safari | Cliff Wade, Jennifer | Deep Feeling, Old People's Home | Wishful Thinking, Hiroshima
CD 2: Sakkarin, Sugar Sugar | Curved Air, Back Street Luv | Procol Harum, Memorial Drive | Rockin' Horse, Oh Carol, I'm So Sad | Gerry Rafferty, To Each And Everyone | Colin Blunstone, Caroline Goodbye | Nimbo, Maisie Jones | Second Hand, Hangin' On An Eyelid | Zior, I Was Fooling | Fusion Farm, Mrs. Speed | Open Road, Waterwheel | Ray Fenwick, Anniversary | Pluto, Mister Westwood | Bear Foot, Frightened | Bronx Cheer, Weather Or Not | Rick Price, Talking To The Flowers | Beau, Ferris Street | Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts, Southbound Lane | Don Crown & His Busking Budgies, The Flying Machines | The Doggs, Billy's Gotta Run | Bill Nelson, Love's A Way | Fields, While The Sun Still Shines | Nirvana, The Saddest Day Of My Life | Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Are You Ready Eddy?
CD 3: Status Quo, Mean Girl (Early Mix) | Atomic Rooster, Devil's Answer (Single Version) | Sweeny Bean, Rock 'n' Roll Wedding | Medicine Head, (And The) Pictures In The Sky | The Kinks, God's Children | Airbus, This Time Tomorrow | Octopus, Summer | Curtiss Maldoon, Sepheryn | Blonde On Blonde, I Don't Care | Pete Atkin, Sunlight Gate | Montage, Dangling In The Cool | John Kongos, Tokoloshe Man (Single Edit) | Siren, Strange Locomotion | The Red Sox, Mister Ten Per Cent | Knocker Jungle, Where I Belong | Wil Malone, It Don't Come Easy | Kingdom Come, Eternal Messenger (Single Version) | Edwards Hand, Encounter | Lifeblud, So Be It | Dear Mr. Time, Grandfather | Bullet, Hobo | Jackie McAuley, Turning Green (Album Version) | Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs, Sea Side Shuffle | Phase, Bill Bailey
Red With Purple Flashes, Vol. 2
(Parka) 2000
Side 1: Wishful Thinking, Step By Step | Act Of Creation, Yesterday Noontime | The Gates Of Eden, Yha Da Da | The Lee Kings, On My Way | Johnny Dean and The Deacons, Shotgun | The Counts, I Can't Go On | Los Brincos, I Know | Patterson's People, Shake Hands With The Devil | Legay, No One
Side 2: The Pandamonium, The Sun Shines From His Eyes | Travel Agency, Come To Me | The Summer Set, What Are You Gonna Do? | The Spiders, Cool It | The Groove, Play The Song | The Good Vibrations, Call Me Lightning | The Fun Of It, Drollery | Wishful Thinking, Is She A Woman Now | Jean-Pierre Messiera, Jim Clark Was Driving Recklessly
Silent Crying • Rock Ballads Against Nuclear Terror
(Modern Music, TT 020-2 / T&T, TT 020-2) 1995
Tracks: Conception, Silent Crying | Stratovarius, Solitude | Wishful Thinking, Hiroshima | Virgin Steele, Forever Will I Roam | Gamma Ray, Silence | Sanvoisen, Tears For No One | Kamelot, What About Me | Alex Parche Project, The Longer You Can Wait | Thunderhead, Good Things Never Last | Ricochet, Angels | Holy Mother, Your Song | Angra, Stand Away | Elegy, Lust For Life | Kashmyr, Midnight Rain
Under The Silent Tree: Psychedelic Pstones IV
(Castle CMRCD 893) 22nd March 2004
A compilation CD of "post-psych psychedelia" featuring two tracks by Wishful Thinking - "the haunting Moody Blues-influenced Hiroshima" and 1984, which, according to David Wells in his sleeve notes, "now sounds closer to 1968 than 1984" thanks to its "reliance on studio trickery and psych-friendly instrumentation" such as the Mellotron."
Tracks: Honeybus, Under The Silent Tree | The Smoke, Playing With Magic | Paul St. John, The Flying Saucers Have Landed | Wishful Thinking, 1984 | Tuesday, Sewing Machine | Fat Mattress, She | The Kinks, Whip Lady | Stray, Around The World In Eighty Days | Parchment, Son Of God | Nimbo, Forget Her | Quiet World, The Visitor | Penny Arcade, The Two Of Us | The Tremeloes, Hard Time | Paul Brett Sage, 3D Mona Lisa | Status Quo, Shy Fly | The Kinks, Dreams | Stray, Time Machine | Writing On The Wall, Buffalo | Parchment, Love Is Come Again | The Laurels, The Devil's Well | Wishful Thinking, Hiroshima | Earl Jordan, 10,000 Years Behind My Mind
We're Not What We Appear To Be
(Wolfrilla 1011)
Side 1: The Bunch, We're Not What We Appear To Be | Ian & The Zodiacs, Wade In The Water | Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, Will Ya? | The Merseys, The Cat | The Mindbenders, My New Day And Age | Tuesday's Children, Summer Leaves Me With A Sigh | Force Five, Don't Know Which Way To Turn
Side 2: Winston's Fumbs, Real Crazy Apartment | The Blue Aces, That's All Right | Paul & Barry Ryan, Gotta Go Out To Work | Mike Raynor & The Condors, Turn Your Head | The Montanas, Anyone There | Wishful Thinking, I Want You Girl | The Mindbenders, Far Across Town
DVDs / Video
That'll Be The Day
(Anchor Bay) DVD - Region 1
Wishful Thinking appeared in That'll Be The Day as the Debonaires.
That'll Be The Day / Stardust
(Warner Home Video) VHS
11th June 1996
A double feature video of two films starring David Essex - That'll Be The Day and its sequel Stardust. The films were subsequently re-released on DVD.
That'll Be The Day / Stardust
(Warner Brothers D038491) DVD - Region 2
25th August 2003
That'll Be The Day / Stardust
(Optimum OPTD0805) DVD - Region 2
26th February 2007
