I clicked on The Sundays over at the index on the right hand side of t’blog and discovered that each of the previous two postings had featured the rather splendid dreamy-pop song which is Summertime. Can’t believe that I hadn’t mentioned this before:-
mp3 : The Sundays – Can’t Be Sure
As debuts go, it really is up there with the best of them and proved so popular that it was voted #1 in the 1989 Peel Festive 50 and reached #45 in the UK charts which night not seem all that great but was actually a very good position for most singles released on Rough Trade Records. It has the catalogue number RTT 218 if you’re remotely interested.
One of the b-sides also appeared on the debut LP, Reading Writing and Arithmetic:-
mp3 : The Sundays – I Kicked A Boy
But there’s a real gem tucked away on the 12″. It sounds as if Harriet Wheeler is being backed by messrs Joyce, Marr and Rourke…..
mp3 : The Sundays – Don’t Tell Your Mother
Bloody marvellous.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
Arguably among the greatest debut singles of all time. I can’t put into words how much I love it. The same can be said of the album. Wonderful.
Loved this single at the time but haven’t listened to it for ages – thanks for the reminder!
wonderful record
surprised massive attack never did anything with harriet wheeler
That’s a great idea Jim. In 1988 all the cool girls at freshers week looked like Harriet Wheeler. Cool and largely unobtainable.
I will love Harriet Wheeler until the day I die.
Don;t Tell Your Mother is indeed a Smiths-soundalike. Quality song
But I don’t know how that song got to no. 1 in the festive 50 though