With a smooth sound that mixed lush bubblegum and middle-of-the-road slickness, White Plains' short career yielded one smash single, 1970's "My Baby Loves Lovin'," and two albums. Both 1970's self-titled debut and 1971's When You Are a King showed off the band's prodigious vocal harmonies and the songwriting skills of Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway.
The group formed when the Flowerpot Men -- best known for the dippy, bubble-psych hit "Let's Go to San Francisco" -- decided a new name and a stylistic change were in order. The very busy session vocalist Tony Burrows was in the l...