Merryweather – We try softer (1968)

Merryweather was a late sixties Canadian rock band that relocated to California in the autumn of 1968 and recorded for Capitol Records. The band was led by singer/bass player Neil Merryweather and most of the band subsequently formed Salt and Pepper with Rick James.
Renamed Heather Merryweather after a song the band performed whose lyrics were written by a band friend, June Nelson, the group soon shortened it to simply Merryweather. After recording a lone unreleased track Heather Merryweather in the autumn, the band drove down to Los Angeles but Livingstone dropped out before the band signed to Capitol Records in the spring of 1968.

Shortly before the release of the bands eponymous debut, produced by John Gross, Lillie changed his surname and became Neil Merryweather.

LP Merryweather (Capitol SKAO-220) 1968