Sunday Will Never Be the Same

{{Infobox song

| name = Sunday Will Never Be the Same

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Spanky and Our Gang

| album = Spanky and Our Gang

| B-side = Distance

| released = April {{Start date|1967}}

| recorded = April 13, 1967

| studio = Bell Sound (New York City)

| venue =

| genre = Baroque rock{{cite book|last=Gendron|first=Bernard|title=Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1oo2jFAdxxMC|year=2002|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago, IL|isbn=978-0-226-28737-9|page=343}}

| length = 2:58

| label = Mercury

| writer = Terry Cashman, Gene Pistilli

| producer = Jerry Ross

| prev_title = And Your Bird Can Sing

| prev_year = 1966

| next_title = Making Every Minute Count

| next_year = 1967

}}

"Sunday Will Never Be the Same" is a 1967 song by the American band Spanky and Our Gang from their self-titled debut album. The single peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/spanky-our-gang-mn0000008245/awards "Spanky & Our Gang - Awards"]. allmusic.com. Retrieved December 1, 2012 and #7 in the Canadian RPM Magazine charts.{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.10075.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - July 1, 1967}} The song was written by Terry Cashman and Gene Pistilli and borrows an interlude from the French carol “Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes”. The arrangement is by Jimmy Wisner.[https://www.45cat.com/record/72679 Discographical details] at 45cat.com. Retrieved July 2, 2019

As with most of the band’s hit singles, producer Jerry Ross used a group of session musicians to provide the instrumental backing track while the rest of the group members provided lead and background vocals. Session personnel on this record included Vinnie Bell, Al Gorgoni, Hugh McCracken, Charles Macey on guitar, Paul Griffin on piano, Artie Butler on harpsichord, Joe Macho on bass, Bobby Gregg and Al Rogers on drums, Joe Macho, Irving Spice, Louis Stone, Ray Free, Matthew Raimondi, Lou Haber on violins, Artie Kaplan on flute, and Seymour Barab and Maurice Bialkin on cellos. Additional instruments were also played by Samuel Casale, Charles Naclerio, Joe Renzetti, and Jimmy Wisner.

Cover versions

  • The O'Kaysions released a version of the song on their 1968 debut album, Girl Watcher.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
  • A series of 1969 television commercials for Plymouth featured a jingle "Just look what Plymouth's up to now", sung by Petula Clark to the tune of "Sunday Will Never Be the Same".{{cn|date=May 2025}}
  • Cashman, Pistilli & West themselves covered the song on their 1968 album Bound to Happen.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

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