Chaos And Co - Seven Golden Daffodils (1966)

The Renegades - Seven Daffodils (1965)

(Fran Mosely - Lee Hays [wrongly credited here as Traditional])
 Finland

Single on Scandia by UK band from Birmingham that built a successful career in Finland after doing a well-received gig there (cf. Red Squares, Boston, Lincs band that moved to Denmark: see under Good News). They were also popular in other parts of Europe and later moved to Italy.

The writer credit is to "Trad. Arr: Brown-Gibson-Johnson-Mallett". In fact this is not a traditional song although it has sometimes been taken for one. See below under The Tarriers.

See also: Cadillac.

Reference: Hitomi I's Renegades history, brief but essential.

The Mojos - Seven Daffodils (1964)

(Fran Mosely - Lee Hays)
 UK
#30 UK

Entered the charts on 10 September 1964, a week after a competing version by The Cherokees.

Single on Decca by popular Liverpool group that also worked in Hamburg. Evolved from The Nomads, the line-up was Stu James, vocals, Nicky Crouch, guitar & vocals, Terry O'Toole, piano, Keith Karlson, bass guitar and John Conrad, drums.

Of seven Mojos singles on Decca 1963-1967, this was the last of three that charted, all in 1964. The others were Everything's Al' Right (#9 UK, an original, covered in Australia by Normie Rowe) and Why Not Tonight (#25 UK).

Reference: The Mojos at British Beat Boom [archived page at oocities.org from defunct Geocities site].

The Cherokees [UK] - Seven Daffodils (1964)

(Fran Mosely - Lee Hays)
 UK
#33 UK

Entered the charts on 3 September 1964, a week before a competing version by The Mojos.

Single on Decca by Leeds band The Cherokees, formed 1961 (not to be confused with the popular Australian band of the 60s also called The Cherokees). According to this source they were known as Ray Starr & The Cherokees for a while in 1963. 

Seven Daffodils was produced by Mickie Most who by this time in 1964 had produced The Animals’ House Of The Rising Sun, Herman’s Hermits’ I’m Into Something Good, and The Nashville Teens’ Tobacco Road, all hits in this year.

In 1966 The Cherokees changed their name to New York Public Library. They recorded again with Mickie Most on Decca and then on MCA and B&C before breaking up in 1973. Later re-formed, New York Public Library has released a new album as recently as 2012, although in 2016 their website was saying NYPL have entered into a long rest period.

References, further reading: 1. Leeds’ Musical Heritage: 1960s at BBC Leeds. 2. Dave Edney’s Top Twenty Club: A history of artists that appeared at Bridgwater’s Town Hall – 1960-1966. 3. The Cherokees from British Beat Boom [archived page]. 4. Archived website of New York Public Library (the band). 

The Brothers Four - Seven Daffodils (1964)

(Fran Mosely - Lee Hays)
 USA

Single on Columbia by Seattle folk quartet formed in 1957 by students (“frat brothers”) at the University of Washington. After moving to San Francisco, The Brothers Four had a #2 hit in 1960 with Greenfields, written by Terry Gilkyson and two members of The Easy Riders: see also Ernie Sigley’s Love Is A Golden Ring.

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The Brothers Four were part of an early-60s popular folk boom, actually the culmination of a decades-long American folk music revival. Many commercial folk groups appeared on the pop charts in the few years before the British Invasion, including The Kingston Trio, The Highwaymen, The New Christy Minstrels and The Limeliters. The fictional Folksmen in the 2003 comedy A Mighty Wind are a parody of groups from this era [YouTube].

In 2020 The Brothers Four were still announcing tour dates for 2021, postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The line-up included original member Bob Flick, and Bob Pearson, a fellow alumnus of Washington State who joined in 1969.

References, further reading: 1. Official site at BrothersFour.com. 2. Brothers Four artist biography by Bruce Eder at All Music.

The Limeliters - Seven Daffodils (1961)

(Fran Mosely - Lee Hays)
 USA

On the Limeliters' first and highest charting album, The Limeliters: Tonight In Person (1961, #5 Billboard Albums).

The Limeliters – Glenn Yarbrough, Lou Gottlieb and Alex Hassilev – were part of the early-60s folk boom in the years before the Beatles and the British Invasion hit America. 

They never had the singles chart success of such contemporaries as The Kingston Trio but their albums sold well and at their peak 1961-63 they were a hugely popular act on TV and in a hectic tour schedule.

The group broke up in 1965, by which time Yarborough had already left to follow a solo career that produced a Top 20 hit in Baby The Rain Must Fall (1965, #12 USA). Yarbrough, Gottlieb and Hassilev again toured together from 1973 but subsequent personnel changes from 1981 and Gottlieb's death in 1996 left no original members in the Limeliters line-up that still performs today.

Reference: The Limelighters biography by Cary Ginall at All Music.