Midnight to Six Man

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"Midnight to Six Man"
Single by Pretty Things
B-side "Me Needing You"
ReleasedJanuary 20, 1966 [1]
Genre
Length2:23
Label Fontana
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Glyn Johns
Pretty Things singles chronology
"Cry to Me"
(1965)
"Midnight to Six Man"
(1966)
"Come See Me" / "L.S.D"
(1966)

"Midnight to Six Man" is a song by British garage rock band the Pretty Things. It was first published in 1966 and registered at number 46 in the UK Singles Chart [3] and 19 in the Netherlands.

Contents

The arrangement is one of the fullest on early Pretty Things cuts, due to the piano of Nicky Hopkins (who played similar R&B piano on the Who's My Generation album) and Margo Lewis, the organist from the all-female band Goldie and the Gingerbreads. [4]

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1966)Peak
position
UK Singles Chart [3] 46
Australia Kent Music Report 62
Dutch Top 40 19

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