Wishful Thinking
Singles
Count To Ten / Hang Around Girl
(Decca F 12598) 1967
Cherry, Cherry / Peanuts
(Decca F 12627) 1967
Meet The Sun / Easier Said Than Loving You
(Decca F 12673) 1967
It's So Easy / I Want You Girl
(Decca F 12760) 1968
Alone / Vegetables
(Decca F 22742) 1968
Without A Place To Go / Waterfall
(Metronome M 25210) 1970
Hiroshima / She Belongs To The Night
(Global Records / Phonogram 6004 991 and Global Records / Intercord 22 506-0) 1971
Lu La Le Lu / We're Gonna Change All This
(B&C Records CB169) 1972
Clear White Light / Hiroshima
(B&C Records CB184) 1972
Hiroshima / She Belongs To The Night
(Atlantic ATL 10 668) 1975
Clear White Light / Horizons
(Atlantic ATL 10 949) 1977
America / You Lay Me Down
(Atlantic ATL 11 222) 1978
Hiroshima / She Belongs To The Night
(Global Records and Tapes 0033.208) 1979
State Fair Majorette / Crash At Honolulu
(Global Records and Tapes 0033.215) 1979
Tightrope Man / (It's All About) Loving You
(Global Records and Tapes 0033.228) 1980
Hiroshima (Special Mix) / America (Special Mix)
(Global Records and Tapes 0933.201) 1982
Hiroshima / America
(Global Records and Tapes 107 165-100) 1985
Hiroshima / Hiroshima (90er-Mix)
(Global Records and Tapes 113 132) 1990
CD Single
Hiroshima (Special Mix) / America (Special Mix) / State Fair Majorette
(Global Records and Tapes 662 024) 1989
Albums
Live Vol: 1
(Decca LP SKL 4900) 1967
(Deram CD PHCR-4237) 1996
In the sleeve notes to Under The Silent Tree, David Wells described this album as "a collection of so-so harmony beat / pop cover versions of material initially cut by the Four Seasons, the Beach Boys et al."
In 1996 the original 1967 album was re-released on CD in Japan.
Side 1: Step By Step | Big Girls Don't Cry | Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow | Turning Around | Hang Around Girl | California Girls | Reach Out (I'll Be There)
Side 2: Walk Away Renee | Happy Together | Is She A Woman Now? | Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) | Peanuts | The Exodus Song | Cherry, Cherry
Hiroshima
(B&C Records LP CAS 1038) 1971
(Midi Star-Collection MID 20 105) 1976
Hiroshima was produced by Lou Reizner, who had produced Rod Stewart's first two albums, An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down and Gasoline Alley.
According to Mojo magazine, Reizner "not only shaped... Hiroshima but provided the voiceover on the title track, repeating the words of the actual broadcast that reported the first atomic bomb attack in August 1945." (Mojo, No. 216, November 2011)
In 1972 Reizner produced an orchestral version of Pete Townshend's rock opera Tommy, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra with the English Chamber Choir and host of stars including Madeline Bell, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart and Steve Winwood. He went on to produce Rick Wakeman's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (1974) and the soundtrack to the film All This And World War II (1976). He died in London of stomach cancer on 26th June 1977.
Side 1: Hiroshima | This Time Tomorrow | She Belongs To The Night | Mary Goodbye | Ever Since I Can Remember | We're Gonna Change All This
Side 2: Now | The United States of Europe 79 | I Wrote A Song | 1984 | Goodbye Lover
That'll Be The Day (film soundtrack)
Wishful Thinking appeared in the film That'll Be The Day, starring David Essex as Jim MacLaine. "What's the band like?" he asked. "Not bad" came the reply. The song that they performed (as the band the Debonaires) is the old Cliff Richard and the Shadows hit It'll Be Me. The song appears on Side 4 (Disc 2) of the soundtrack album. Wishful Thinking also provided the backing for five songs by Billy Fury, which also appear on Side 4 (Disc 2).
Side 4: David Essex, Rock On | Billy Fury, A Thousand Stars | Viv Stanshall, Real Leather Jacket | Billy Fury, Long Live Rock | Stormy Tempest, What In The World (Shoop) | Billy Fury, That's All Right Mama | Eugene Wallace, Slow Down | Billy Fury, Get Yourself Together | Billy Fury, What'd I Say | Wishful Thinking, It'll Be Me
Wishful Thinking
(Global Records and Tapes LP 206 731-270 / CD 259 311-217) 1979
This LP, later released as a CD (259 311-217), was also re-released with the title Hiroshima.
Side 1: State Fair Majorette | Clear White Light | America | She Belongs To The Night | Crash At Honolulu
Side 2: Hiroshima | I Wrote A Song | Now | 1984 | Goodbye Lover
Step By Step
(Frost Records WISH1) 18th December 2007
A compilation CD featuring tracks by the Emeralds and Wishful Thinking, including some previously unreleased material.
The Emeralds
Tracks: The Kerry Dancers | Little White Lies | Don't Listen To Your Friends | Say You're Mine | King Lonely The Blue | Someone Else's Fool
Wishful Thinking
Tracks: Turning Round | V.I.P.| Step By Step | Looking Around | Count To Ten | Hang Around Girl | Cherry, Cherry | Peanuts | Meet The Sun | Easier Said Than Loving You | Alone | Vegetables | It's So Easy | I Want You Girl
Bonus tracks: Wonderful Day | Hush | Personality | Top Of The World | If You Don't Want My Love | Walk Away Renee | We Can Sing Together | We're Back In Britain
Believing In Dreams
August 2009
An album recorded in Scotland in 2009, containing a mix of brand new songs and some older tracks.
When You Dance | Manhattan Lights | Hiroshima | Broken Horse | Black Is White | Shine A Light | Believing In Dreams | State Fair Majorette | Dance With Me (live at Lakeside) | Carry On | Jesse | You Know What I'm Like | Make A Fool Out Of Me | Forever's Getting Shorter | America
Compilation Albums / CDs (Various Artists)
There are a number of compilation albums and CDs that include tracks by Wishful Thinking. For a complete discography visit the Wishful Thinking website.
Red With Purple Flashes, Vol. 2
(Parka) 2000
Side 1: Wishful Thinking, Step By Step | Act Of Creation, Yesterday Noontime | The Gates Of Eden, Yha Da Da | The Lee Kings, On My Way | Johnny Dean and The Deacons, Shotgun | The Counts, I Can't Go On | Los Brincos, I Know | Patterson's People, Shake Hands With The Devil | Legay, No One
Side 2: The Pandamonium, The Sun Shines From His Eyes | Travel Agency, Come To Me | The Summer Set, What Are You Gonna Do? | The Spiders, Cool It | The Groove, Play The Song | The Good Vibrations, Call Me Lightning | The Fun Of It, Drollery | Wishful Thinking, Is She A Woman Now | Jean-Pierre Messiera, Jim Clark Was Driving Recklessly
Under The Silent Tree: Psychedelic Pstones IV
(Castle CMRCD 893) 22nd March 2004
A compilation CD of "post-psych psychedelia" featuring two tracks by Wishful Thinking - "the haunting Moody Blues-influenced Hiroshima" and 1984, which, according to David Wells in his sleeve notes, "now sounds closer to 1968 than 1984" thanks to its "reliance on studio trickery and psych-friendly instrumentation" such as the Mellotron."
Tracks: Honeybus, Under The Silent Tree | The Smoke, Playing With Magic | Paul St. John, The Flying Saucers Have Landed | Wishful Thinking, 1984 | Tuesday, Sewing Machine | Fat Mattress, She | The Kinks, Whip Lady | Stray, Around The World In Eighty Days | Parchment, Son Of God | Nimbo, Forget Her | Quiet World, The Visitor | Penny Arcade, The Two Of Us | The Tremeloes, Hard Time | Paul Brett Sage, 3D Mona Lisa | Status Quo, Shy Fly | The Kinks, Dreams | Stray, Time Machine | Writing On The Wall, Buffalo | Parchment, Love Is Come Again | The Laurels, The Devil's Well | Wishful Thinking, Hiroshima | Earl Jordan, 10,000 Years Behind My Mind
We're Not What We Appear To Be
(Wolfrilla 1011)
Side 1: The Bunch, We're Not What We Appear To Be | Ian & The Zodiacs, Wade In The Water | Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, Will Ya? | The Merseys, The Cat | The Mindbenders, My New Day And Age | Tuesday's Children, Summer Leaves Me With A Sigh | Force Five, Don't Know Which Way To Turn
Side 2: Winston's Fumbs, Real Crazy Apartment | The Blue Aces, That's Alright | Paul & Barry Ryan, Gotta Go Out To Work | Mike Raynor & The Condors, Turn Your Head | The Montanas, Anyone There | Wishful Thinking, I Want You Girl | The Mindbenders, Far Across Town
DVD / Video
That'll Be The Day
(Anchor Bay) DVD - Region 1
Wishful Thinking appeared in That'll Be The Day as the Debonaires.
That'll Be The Day / Stardust
(Warner Home Video) VHS
11th June 1996
A double feature video of two films starring David Essex - That'll Be The Day and its sequel Stardust. The films were subsequently re-released on DVD.
That'll Be The Day / Stardust
(Warner Brothers D038491) DVD - Region 2
25th August 2003
That'll Be The Day / Stardust
(Optimum OPTD0805) DVD - Region 2
26th February 2007
