The Searchers, the Liverpool band who have thrilled crowds in Scotland [1963- present] are retiring in 2019 so check the future dates it you want to see them for a last time. http://www.the-searchers.co.uk/dates The “Meet The Searchers” LP [which pre-dates…
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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Meet The Searchers
Tagged with: and ballrooms. Tony Jackson was lead singer when they became a quartet (after Johnny Sandon left to join the Remo Four) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Searchers_(band) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v, dance halls, Liverpool was already emerging in 1962 when this promo photo of the Searchers was taken for Photo-Cast 1963/64. This was a book used by promoters around the UK to feature new acts in various clubs
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Posted in 1960's pop music
Helen Shapiro and The Beatles
Helen Shapiro videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TPGlBpvFj8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG5vDXULfWY Helen Shapiro’s music career was from 1961-63 though she was in two music films and headlined for the Beatles in early 1963. “Before she was sixteen years old, Shapiro had been voted Britain’s “Top Female Singer”…
The Silver Beetles In Fraserburgh
The Beatles performed in rural north-east Scotland as teenagers backing Johnny Gentle May 1960 and again in Jan 1963 at the start of their UK tours with Ringo Starr. As a Beatles fan raised near San Francisco, visiting a scenic…
Tagged with: Beatles 1960, early Beatles, Fraserburgh, Johnny Gentle Beetles, Scotland, Silver Beetles, Stan Williams, The Beatles
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Bonici business sense
A rival promoter in his book “Are Ye Dancin’?” referred to Mr. Bonici as a “wide-boy” and sited his contract with The Beatles that gave him exclusive rights to book bands anywhere in Scotland. Others called him shrewd or “cunning” in thinking that Bonici took advantage…
Tagged with: AA Bonici, Albert Bonici, Albert Bonici Biography, Cana Variety, Eight Acres Hotel, Norco Records, Park Cafe, Two Red Shoes
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DC5
The Dave Clark Five appeared on “Thank Your Lucky Stars” in October ’63 followed by singing what became a hit, “Glad All Over” in November on Ready Steady Go!. They got their big break on The Ed Sullivan Show in March 1964, lip synching…
Beatles tour contract Nov/’62
Beatles at Star-Club, Hamburg 1962 The month before, the band performed a radio session aired in London in Tuesday 27 November 1962: “This was The Beatles’ first radio session in London. It was recorded at the BBC Paris Studio on…
Bonici promotional flyers
Here are more flyers Albert printed to promote Scottish bands and a couple bands south of the border who toured north of Scotland. The guitarist in Summerset[far left] was replaced by Ian Fraser whose earliest band was another Elgin band…
Tagged with: Albert Bonici promoter, Graeme Nairn, Jacobeats, Mindbenders, Modelles, Night Hawks, promo flyers Bonici, Summerset, The Hollies, Wayne Fontana
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Gene Vincent
Gene singing Be Bop A Lula that he became known for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ALKXUlJ68 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be-Bop-A-Lula It also inspired a young John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Here is a mash up of Paul and John singing the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab_xJaDFBCs Crickets and Beetles Although…
Tagged with: #genevincent, Blue Caps, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Gene Vincent and The Beatles, Gene Vincent tour UK
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Albert A Bonici interview [ Jim Wilkie]
Interview with Albert Bonici by Jim Wilkie “Jim Wilkie was born and educated in Dundee. Following an early struggle with the West Highland Free Press and a more protracted skirmish with the music business, he now works freelance as a…
Applejacks and Toggery Five
AA Bonici featured many talented beat bands who entertained audiences in small halls and ballrooms around Scotland. As with many bands and recording artist Bonici introduced to Elgin’s Two Red Shoes, British recording artists The Applejacks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO8VJwlwCQY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8JBNIb1zqM and Toggery-five had limited success beyond the UK. Some of the musicians regrouped whilst others…
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