1978
COME A LONG WAY * THE ROYALS * BALLISTIC 36418 * GB
Roy Cousins formed the Royals in the mid 1960s, they worked with Dodd and Reid, the group had many personnel changes, and it wasn't until 1973, some time after the original group had disbanded, when they recorded Pick Up The Pieces on Roy Cousins own label that the Royals reached a wider audience. The song was successful enough for Dodd to release the original version which he had sat on since the 1960s, this was also popular, so much so that it has become one of the classic many versioned cuts from that period. The Royals split again in 1975 and the above belongs to the third incarnation.