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Honey Ltd.

The Complete LHI Recordings
Cassette Tape $11
CD $14
LP Black $19
Digital Download $10.99
  • First time ever reissued
  • Remastered from the original mono tapes
  • Comprehensive liner notes by Jessica Hundley interviewing all four band members, including unseen photos
  • 180 gram LP housed in gatefold tip-on jacket and includes 18×24 fold-out poster (repro of original Billboard advert)
  • First pressing of CD and LP include die-cut Honey Ltd. sticker (shown above)
  • SOLD OUT – ON-LINE ONLY: First 150 pre-orders get limited pressing on Royal Blue wax! Don’t sleep!
  • LP SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Limited pressing of 150 on Red Velvet wax!

Description

Lee Hazlewood’s LHI label only put out interesting albums. Yet despite the psychedelic cowboy’s success with Nancy Sinatra and more, being on Lee Hazlewood Industries was no fast-track to success. Gorgeous and talented Detroit, Michigan girl group Honey Ltd had all the makings of a hit band, yet they disappeared after releasing just one album in 1968, a vinyl rarity that now regularly fetches upwards of $2,000.

AVAILABLE: July 23, 2013

Lee Hazlewood’s LHI label only put out interesting albums. Yet despite the psychedelic cowboy’s success with Nancy Sinatra and more, being on Lee Hazlewood Industries was no fast-track to success. Gorgeous and talented Detroit, Michigan girl group Honey Ltd had all the makings of a hit band, yet they disappeared after releasing just one album in 1968, a vinyl rarity that now regularly fetches upwards of $2,000.

Light In The Attic Records is now looking to set the record straight. Having previously explored both the back catalog of Lee Hazlewood and his LHI label via the You Turned My Head Around 45s Box Set, Honey Ltd’s The Complete LHI Recordings presents everything the group ever recorded. Fans of The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las and Pentangle are in for a treat – Honey Ltd’s music blended social commentary with harmony-drenched,...

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Artist Bio

Laura Polkinghome, Marsha Jo Temmer and sisters Joan and Alexandra Sliwin are the girls with the angelic voices. Hailing from Detroit, the four members of Honey Ltd grew up in a culture of soul music and dance shows, yet forming a band was never part of the plan. It simply happened after they sung together in a Wayne State University cafeteria and found they’d silenced the room. By 1967 they had formed a group known as the Mama Cats and were playing shows with local singer Bob Seger. By 1968, against a backdrop of rioting in Detroit, they’d hauled over to Los Angeles to give music a go, and it’s there that they hitch-hiked to an audition with Lee Hazlewood on Sunset Boulevard. At the time, Lee Hazlewood Industries was in its prime: the money flowed and the roster swelled....

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 The Warrior
    2:58
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  • 2 No, You Are
    2:42
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  • 3 I've Got Your Man
    2:31
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  • 4 Silk N' Honey
    3:31
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  • 5 For Your Mind
    2:36
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  • 6 Come Down
    2:11
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  • 7 Louie, Louie
    3:08
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  • 8 Tomorrow Your Heart
    2:28
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  • 9 Eli's Coming
    3:48
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  • 10 Silver Threads and Golden Needles
    2:58
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  • 11 I'm so Glad
    3:30
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  • 12 Love, The Devil
    2:31
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  • 13 Not for Me
    2:29
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  • 14 Louie, Louie (with Hazlewood intro)
    3:47
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