LINDA GEORGE
Our Day Will Come
(Bob Hilliard - Mort Garson)
Australia 1973
#32 Sydney #27 Melbourne #23 Brisbane #18 Adelaide #33 Perth

Single on Image label.

Linda George (also billed as Miss Linda George): Soul influenced singer, formerly with Melbourne band Nova Express, who went into session work after a successful solo career in the 70s. In recent years she has taught Voice at the Victorian College of the Arts.

See also the B-side Yesterday And You.

Suggestion from Mike Robbins.
RUBY & THE ROMANTICS
Our Day Will Come
(Bob Hilliard - Mort Garson)
USA 1963
Original version
#1 USA #6 UK #14 Sydney #9 Melbourne #10 Brisbane #36 Adelaide #1 Perth

Single on Kapp label.

Ruby Nash joined male vocal group The Romantics (formerly The Supremes) in 1962. (ER2)

Other notable Ruby & The Romantics records:

• Hey There Lonely Boy (1963, #27 USA) the original version of Eddie Holman's Hey There Lonely Girl (1970, #2 USA);
• the original version of Van McCoy's When You're Young And In Love (1964), a #23 hit in the USA for The Marvellettes in 1967.

Our Day Will Come has been recorded by numerous artists, including Cher (1966), Herb Alpert (1966) and Esther Phillips (1979).

Later versions:

ISAAC HAYES
Our Day Will Come
(Bob Hilliard - Mort Garson)
USA 1970
Later version

On 1970 album To Be Continued on Enterprise label. Later sampled by Massive Attack (see below).
FRANKIE VALLI
Our Day Will Come
(Bob Hilliard - Mort Garson)
USA 1975
Later version
#11 USA

Single on Private Stock label by Four Seasons lead singer.
MASSIVE ATTACK
Exchange
(Bob Hilliard - Mort Garson)
UK 1998
Later version

On the 1998 album Mezzanine.

Samples the 1971 Isaac Hayes version of Our Day Will Come.

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