The Troggs was another popular band that made the ’60s “beat” music memorable among the youth of the time. They were best known for their 1966 hit “Wild Thing” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bKbtZLxMO0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Thing_(The_Troggs_song) and “Love is all Around” [1967] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xEEhzAh6n4 Btw, here’s…
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Monthly Archives: June 2014
1967 music – Northeast Scotland
Memorable music highlights in Morayshire [Scottish county] 1967 included The Cream and The Pink Floyd performing in Elgin and throughout northeast Scotland. Here’s some music entries from Buckie edition of the “Advertiser” to let local readers know what was planned for the near…
Music notes from Buckie
1957 Rock and Roll – 1953: June 18 Modern Dance – was how the dance to be held in the Fishermen’s Hall on Monday 22 June was described. Music by Moray Melodymakers with admission 3/-. Refreshments available. Free bus from…
Tagged with: British Beat Championships, Johnny and the Copycats, Moray 1962, Two Red Shoes
Posted in 1960's pop music
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Buckie Beat Boys [Copycats]
Johnny and the Copycats came to the attention of Two Red Shoe’s proprietor/promoter, Albert Bonici, after TRS house-band leader, Alex. Sutherland heard the guys in late 1962 during an a jazz band intermission at Monday Jazz Nights in Buckie’s Fisherman’s…
Tagged with: Albert Bonici, Buckie boys, Copycats, Elton John, Johnny and the Copy Cats, My Dear Watson, The Copycats
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Posted in 1960's pop music
Beat Summers 1964 – 66
Teenagers growing up in small communities in the north of Scotland during the 1960s were not lacking when it came to music thanks to Bonici and his associates. He brought in acts from around Great Britain to play in…
Tagged with: Ballarina Nairn, Beat music 1964, Beatles, Copycats, Longmore Hall, Lulu, The Kinks, Yardbirds
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Come Dancing…
“Come Dancing” [The Kinks]: “From the earliest years of the twentieth century until the early 1960s, the dance hall was the popular forerunner of the discothèque or nightclub.” Are Ye’ Dancin’ [Eddie Tobin] In the 1960’s and through the ’70s,…
Tagged with: Albert Bonici, Colin Henderson, Come Dancing, Graham Nairn, Jimmy Martin band, Park Cafe, The Kinks, Two Red Shoes
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LULU
Lulu and The Luvvers performed in the Two Red Shoes on 18 June’64 and shared the bill with The Puppets. Their recording “Shout” had just hit the top 10 UK singles http://demondaveuk.bravepages.com/Charts/jun64.htm. The band returned a few times to…
But I Was Cool… beat music
Beat music emerged in the UK in early ’60s and changed the face of popular music. It encompassed “various styles of music including British rock and roll [Cliff Richard 1958] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IljO-4CsMjc, <a title=”Pop music” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop, Celtic, Doo-wop, Rhythm_and_blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viV24hMLcjY Lubbock sound [Buddy Holly style] and skiffle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz6GIuSy_1c…
Tagged with: But I Was Cool, My Generation, Remo Four, The Who, The Yardbirds
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Roy Orbison, The Beatles, and the Pacemakers
The Roy Orbison/The Beatles Tour was a 1963 concert tour of the United Kingdom by Roy Orbison http://wogew.blogspot.com/2009/04/roy-orbison-tour.html Besides the Beatles, other acts on the tour included Gerry and the Pacemakers, David Macbeth, Louise Cordet, Tony Marsh, Terry Young Six, Erkey Grant, and Ian…
Tagged with: and the Pacemakers, Glasgow Scotland, Roy Orbison, The Beatles
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Dusty and The Springfields
Photo: Dusty Springfield in studio with Johnny Moran and a sound engineer when developing her solo act [1963] Note: Photos for educational use only. Bonici Archives contracts are property of PC Holding Co [Bonici Archives] digitised use with permission. Author…
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