Video of the Week: Pleasure-Don't Take the Night Away(60s Proto-New Wave)

For this week's Video of the Week, I decided to go back, since I recently stumbled upon this obscure 60s track on Youtube that totally blew me away (and not just for the amazing, rainbow-colored, Fruit Stripe Gum-like label art). When I first listened to it, I was immediately stunned by how much this sounds like early-80s New Wave, very similar to foofy New Romantic/New Wave act Visage's 1981 club thumper "Fade to Grey" or even most of the Synth-Pop that Ministry did (quite honestly, due to the contractual obligations) when they were on Arista. More recently, it reminds me of a lot of the material that the Chromatics are doing now on Italians Do It Better/Echo Park Records.
Before I discovered this, I thought for the most part, the only 60s Proto-New Wave track I've ever heard was the Balloon Farm's "A Question of Temperature" or most of the synth stuff on many a Moog album, but the production values of this are more unique than that, especially the arpeggiated vocals in the chorus and the tinny, off-track sound of the orchestration at the end. After hearing this track, I tried to seek out as much information as possible on this act, being that they're obviously rather obscure. There seems to be little-to-no information online about them, what we do know according to the Fuzz, Acid, & Flowers blogspot, is that they only put out two 45s in 1969, particularly this one on the legendary Tower label (home of the Standells, the Chocolate Watchband, and especially Pink Floyd's very first album, the legendary "Piper At the Gates of Dawn"), that's obviously the most notable and can be found on the comps Slowly Growing Insane and Psychedelic Unknowns Vol. 11. However, I discovered that somebody mentioned in one of the comments on Youtube for the B-side, the rather standard, Monkees-like "Poor Old Organ Grinder", mentions that vocalist Billy Elder was an engineer at Hollywood Sound Recorders at the time and that this was pretty much his studio creation. Singer Tommy Flanders of the Blues Project (of "No Time Like the Right Time" fame from the first Nuggets comp), was supposed to sing this, but found he couldn't reach certain notes, so Elder sang this track. Interestingly enough, I've found in most cases, some of the more experimental 60s tracks, such as this, were usually the work of studio musicians/engineers/producers, so this doesn't really surprise me. It would also be worth noting that this was probably one of the last singles on Tower(a more youth-oriented subsidiary of Capitol), since the label folded the same year this was released, but overall, this is an amazing track. If you have more information, please feel free to comment and let me know.