Let's Be Honest

Continuing on with the deep dive look at some of Patrick's songs as recorded by various artists during the 1960s (primarily). Once again here is another tune that Famous Groupies had selected for Black Apple, and naturally this take is an alternative version to ours (quite possibly the original version). 

Song#2 Honesty: Okay, let me preface with this. There are several different versions of this song as sung by various artists and groups. I liked this version the best.  It is easily the earliest recorded take and it's a total hit! The group is called "The Honeywells".  I could not find any information on them, but the recording was made in the early 60s, pre 1965 (possibly). This would be one of Patrick's early Decca works. He was working with many unknown artists at that time, many of which would never make it beyond recording a few singles for the label, which was very common back then.
 
There is also another version which I quite liked, a really pleasant early mid 70s version as sung by a woman called Maxine. We all felt that the singer sounded remarkably like that of the late Helen Reddy. But, the name written in the notes is "Maxine", and after researching that name we came up empty handed, thus I didn't share it.  My guess is that she was a hired vocalist and not the artist whom the song was meant for, but I could be wrong.

Click below and take a listen to The Honeywells covering "Honesty" as originally written by Patrick McKenize.