Stoney Ground (song)
Stoney Ground was a single for UK soul group The Foundations. It made it on to the US Billboard chart in 1972. It also represented the group's last charting first release of a single. Background "Stoney Ground" was composed by Conan Byrne and Warren Davis. It was backed with I'll Give You Love", a Colin Young composition. It's more than likely that Conan Byrne is Con Byrne and Warren Davis is the Warren Davis, both of The Warren Davis Monday Band. Interestingly, Davis had tried out to take the place of Clem Curtis who had decided to leave The Foundations in 1968. Byrne and Davis had also composed "Honey (I Need Your Love)" for Mighty Dodos which was produced by Barry Kingston and released on the Spark label in 1971. "Stoney Ground" was released in the UK on MCA MKS 5075. It was also released in the United States on Uni 55315. Following the break up of The Foundations in 1970, this was their last single issued in the early 1970s. When Trend Records started out in early 1968, they had taken on Eric Allandale, trombonist for The Foundations as a producer. The strategy back then was not to have