The Clique (Texas band)
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The Clique are a late 1960s U.S. sunshine pop band from Beaumont, Texas, 90 miles east of Houston.
The group was centered around record producer/songwriter Gary Zekley, who often employed session musicians. Their self-titled album, The Clique (1969), released by White Whale Records, featured the singles I'll Hold Out My Hand and Sugar on Sunday, which reached #45 in the U.S, on 12/13/1969 and #22 on the U.S. on 10/18/1969 Billboard Hot 100 chart, respectively. Sugar on Sunday was a cover of a Tommy James song and its B-Side, Superman, was covered by R.E.M. on their 1986 album Life's Rich Pageant.
The Clique reached #177 on the Billboard Hot 200 album chart. A 1970 single, Sparkle and Shine, reached #100; this song is included, along with six other added songs, on the 1998 re-release of The Clique put out by Varèse Sarabande.
Many thought The Clique was actually Tommy James & the Shondells, because of the dead-ringer sound of Sugar on Sunday.
