The group, which also included future Chris de Burgh sideman Danny McBride on guitar; former Luke & The Apostles and David Clayton-Thomas Combine drummer Pat Little; and bass player Rick Shuckster, became the house band at the Rock Pile, one of Toronto's top live venues.
Peter Shields formed a new version of Simon Caine (dropping The Catch) in October 1969 with original members Bill Palmer, John Savage and Dennis Pendrith, who had spent the interim playing with Olivus, 3's a Crowd and Ugly Ducklings spin-off group, GNU.
The new line up signed to RCA Victor and issued a lone single, “Walked Out The Door”, written by Pat Godfrey and Dave Richardson, which coincided with an appearance at Toronto's Electric Circus (December 12–14, 1969).
The following year, the group gigged intensively throughout southern Ontario and also completed sessions for an album at RCA Recording Studios in Toronto with producer George Semkiw, which was released in October 1970.
[1] That same month, the band returned to Toronto's live scene with a show at the Night Owl, followed by an appearance at Ryerson Great Hall alongside Leigh Ashford on November 6, 1970.
Although born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Palmer returned to the United States to renovate old houses in the Florida Keys.