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Eternity's Children

Eternity's Children

Personnel:
BRUCE BLACKMAN keyb'ds A
JERRY BOUNDS gtr A
LINDA LAWLEY vcls A B C
CHARLIE ROSS bs A B C
JOHNNY WALKER gtr A
ROY WHITAKER drms A B
MIKE McCLAIN keyb'ds B C

ALBUMS:
1(A/B) ETERNITY'S CHILDREN (Tower 5l23) 1968
2(C) TIMELESS (Tower 5144) 1968

NB: There's also a retrospective CD Eternity's Children (Revola CREV062CD) 1999.

45s:
1 Rumors/Wait And See (A&M 866) 1967 -
2 Mrs Bluebird/Little Boy (Tower 416) 1968 69
3 Sunshine Among Us/Rupert White (Tower 439) 1968 117
4 Till I Hear From You/I Wanna Be With You (Tower 449) 1968
5 Sidewalks Of The Ghetto/Look Away (Tower 476) 1969
6 A Railroad Trestle In California/My Happiness Day (some PS) (Tower 477) 1969
7 Blue Horizon/Lifetime Day (Tower 498) 1969
8 Laughing Girl/Little Boy (Tower 499) 1969
9 Alone Again / From You Unto Us (Liberty 56162) 1970

NB: (5) flipside was by Charles Ross III. (6) credited to Charles Ross E. III, although the 'B' side is just a different mix of an Eternity's Children album cut. (8) credited to Charles Ross III.

Originally The Phantoms (minus Lawley) they'd formed in Cleveland, Mississippi. After relocating to Biloxi, they recruited Linda Lawley and changed their name to Eternity's Children. With aspirations to become an L.A. pop-psych band, they honed their skills on the New Orleans circuit (playing as Charlie Rich's backing band?), before venturing to L.A. to record. Their main claim to fame was Mrs. Bluebird, a minor hit, which was produced by Millennium's Curt Boettcher and Keith Olsen. By the time their first album was released however, Bounds, Walker and Blackman had left, with the latter replaced by Texan McClain (ex-Neurotic Sheep).

Drummer Roy Whitaker left the band when they broke up and got into radio, starting in New Orleans for Buzz Bennett, and ending up in Tampa Bay at WLCY where he used the name Chris Holiday.






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