HONEY LTD. - The Complete LHI Recordings
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 04:00PM 
Light In The Attic continues to reissue stellar rarities from Lee Hazlewood's LHI label, this time the sole album by late-'60s Detroit girl group Honey Ltd. With angelic vocal harmonies sure to satisfy sunshine pop lovers, their version of "Louie Louie," arranged by the legendary Jack Nitzsche, must be heard to be believed.
"The band came together in Detroit in the mid-'60s when friends Laura Polkinghorne and Marsha Jo Temmer met sisters Alex and Joan Sliwin at Wayne State University. The four started singing together–mainly covers of the Motown hits being churned out of their hometown–and by 1967 had formed a group that producer Punch Andrews named the Mama Cats. That summer, as riots were sweeping the States, they spent two weeks in LA and loved it so much that in January of 1968, they pooled resources and moved there to try their luck as a band. They slept on Temmer's grandmother's floor and hitchhiked, stoned, to their audition with Hazlewood at 9,000 Sunset Blvd.
He was taken with them immediately and gave them a manager, a name and a recording contract on the spot. For a year or so, they were on the edge of superstardom." - The Guardian
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