Ann: Before founding Heart, I did front the band “The Daybreaks”. In late 1968 the original Daybreaks agreed to work for two country songwriters who were looking for a group willing to record them for studio time in return. On January 9th, 1969 the band recorded two 45rpm recordings (2 records – 4 sides) at Kearney Bartons Studio. In 1969 Seattle’s own Topaz Records released a limited pressing as Ann Wilson & The Daybreaks. These are my first recordings which only sold a handful of copies, but it was the start of my career. We recorded this in a tiny studio in downtown Seattle under the Monorail. It may as well have been Abbey Road because we’d never been in any recording studio before. The session came about because we were helping my friend Chris Blaine with a country band. That band only had a few songs, and there was a little time left in the day they’d booked, so we cut the three covers, and snuck in an original song of our own.
UCR: “Listening now, my voice sounds high and naive and you can hear the influences of Judy Garland, Peggy Lee and Patsy Cline, [artists that] my mother played at home growing up,” she said. “I remember feeling scared and shy at first behind the microphone but soon something else took over!”
TDHS: Original copies of her 60s singles are rare and valuable. One track “Through Eyes and Glass” did see the (laser)light again on Heart’s 2012 boxset Strange Euphoria.
Therefore,
Ephesians 2
Freedom: showers of mercy and grace