The Cougars

Produced in Bristol, England in the first ’60s, the Cougars had been a group that customized in rocked-up versions of pop and classical standards, mostly performed as instrumentals. These were agreed upon to Parlophone Information in 1963 (probably by Ron Richards), and acquired a humble U.K. strike that year using the one “Sunday Night ON THE Duckpond,” that was in fact a rocked-up instrumental of a little portion of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.” This in fact place them one through to their Bristol competitors the Eagles, who documented far more but hardly ever charted an archive. The Cougars cut two even more singles for Parlophone, neither which charted, and an EP, Sunday Night Using the Cougars, which also didn’t graph. They disbanded in 1964, but their one graph hit could be heard over the See For Mls label’s 20 One Strike Wonders.