Carl Baron and the Cheetahs

Members

Carl Baron - vocals (Died:  Johannesburg, South Africa)
Nigel Wright - guitar, vocal
Rodney Wright - bass guitar
Euan Rose - drums

Ray Bridger - lead vocal

Formed in Birmingham.
Formerly known as The Eko's.
Also known as Carl and the Cheetahs.
Carl Baron's real name was Colin Smith. He left the Cheetahs in 1964 and was replaced by Ray Bridger and the band shortened their name to The Cheetahs. Ray Bridger had formerly been in a group called The Firebirds.

UK Singles

1963 This is Only the Beginning/Beg, Borrow or Steal                       Columbia DB 7162
   (Released November 1963. The A-side was credited to Carl Baron and the B-side to Carl and the Cheetahs)

Known Gigs

7 Feb 1964 Burton upon Trent, 76 Club.
13 Mar 1964 Burton upon Trent, 76 Club. With The Rockin' Blue Venoms.

The Applejacks

Members

Al Jackson - vocals
Megan Davies - bass guitar, vocals
Don Gould - piano, organ, vocals
Martin Baggott - lead guitar, vocals
Phil Cash - rhythm guitar,vocals
Gerry Freeman - drums

John Washington -vocals
Paul Willetts - drums

Formed in Solihull in early 1961.
Previously known as The Crestas and the The Jaguars.
Don Gould joined in late 1961.
Al Jackson joined in 1962.
Also known as Al Jackson and the Applejacks.
Appeared in the film 'Just For You' in 1964.
Al Jackson left in 1966 and was replaced by John Washington.
John Washington had previously been in The Fortunes.
Don Gould left in 1967.
Gerry Freeman left in 1967 and was replaced by Paul Willetts.
Megan Davies later played with Mongrel and Ivy Benson.

UK Singles

1964 Tell Me When/Baby Jane                                                                                      Decca F 11833
   (Released 14 February 1964)
1964 Like Dreamers Do/(Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom) Everybody Fall Down           Decca F 11916
   (Released 5 June 1964. Like Dreamers Do was written by Lennon/McCartney)
1964 Three Little Words (I Love You)/You're The One For Me                                   Decca F 11981
   (Released 18 September 1964)
1965 Bye Bye Girl/It's Not A Game Anymore                                                             Decca F 12106
   (Released 19 March 1965)
1965 I Go To Sleep/Make Up Or Break Up                                                                  Decca F 12216
   (Released 27 August 1965. I Go To Sleep was written by Ray Davies.)
1965 I'm Through/We Gotta Get Together                                                                    Decca F 12301
   (Released December 1965)
1967 You've Been Cheatin'/Love Was In My Eyes                                                       CBS 202615
   (Released 10 March 1967)

UK LPs

1964 The Applejacks                                                                                                   Decca LK 4635

Known Gigs

7 Apr 1964 Bath, Regency Ballroom. Supported by The Costers.
21 Apr 1964 Bath, Regency Ballroom. Supported by The Niteshades.
24 May 1964 London, Prince of Wales Theatre, W1. Supporting Freddie and the Dreamers.
8 Aug 1964 Nantwich, Civic Hall, Cheshire. Supported by Phil Ryan and the Crescents.
27 Sep 1964 London, Empire Pool, Wembley. With Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen, Sandra Barry and the Deputies, Elkie Brook and the Echoes, Jess Conrad and the Puppets, Johnny Howard and His Band, The Juniors, Kenny Lynch, Manfred Mann, Susan Maughan, The Migil Five, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, Helen Shapiro. Comperes Jimmy Tarbuck, and Jimmy Savile.

The Staffords

Members

Hugh Stirling - vocals
Malcolm Dean - bass guitar
Ron Jones (or James) - drums
Phil Overfield - lead guitar

Dave Marsh
Trevor Evans
Nev Chamberlain
John Stane


Formed in Sedgley.
Managed by George Maddocks.
Played in Germany.
Phil Overfield left in 1967 and joined Finders Keepers.
In 1969 they appeared in front of a celebrity audience at the home of Robert Stigwood

The Staffords recorded on the Penny Farthing label in the UK in 1970 as Lincoln Black.
Soon after, the group disbanded.

Known Gigs

22 Sep 1967 Wolverhampton, Civic and Wulfrun Halls, West Midlands. With Tony Rivers and the Castaways, The Californians, Dual Purpose, and The News

Danny King and the Royals

Formed in Birmingham in 1960.
Disbanded in 1963.

The Montanas

Members

John 'Johnny' Jones - vocals
Graham Crew - drums
Bill Hayward - lead guitar
Ralph Oakley - bass guitar

Terry Rowley - bass guitar, keyboards
Jake Elcock - bass guitar
Graham Hollis - drums
Ian 'Sludge' Lees - vocal
George Davis - keyboards


Formed in Wolverhampton.

Known Gigs

Mon 11/01/1965  Stafford, The Yeoman. Supported by The Invaders.

The Wolves

Members

Bobby Holt - Vocals
John Eades - Lead Guitar
Willem "Wimp" Feder - Rhythm Guitar
Darryl Smith - Bass Guitar
John Taylor - Drums

Clive Nicholls - Drums

Formed in Wolverhampton in early 1964 out of The Big Beats.
John Taylor left the Wolves in 1965 and was replaced by Clive Nicholls.
Appeared on the British TV show 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' in August 1964.

UK Singles

1964 Journey Into Dreams/What Do You Mean                            Pye 7N 15676
1964 Now/This Year, Next Year                                                    Pye 7N 15733
1965 At the Club/Distant Drums                                                   Pye 7N 17013
1966 Lust For Life/My Baby Loves Them                                    Parlophone R 5511

Known Gigs

18 Apr 1964    Wolverhampton, Civic Hall.
28 Aug 1964    Tamworth, Assembly Rooms.
?? Dec 1964    Wolverhampton, Grand Theatre. With The Black Diamonds, The Tonebeats, Sue Carr and the Condors, The Rinky Dinks, The Soul Seekers and The Ricky Lee Combo.

22 Jan 1965    Stafford, Stafford Road Club, Assembly Rooms, Tipping Street. Supported by the Motives.

The Soul Agents

Members

John Keeping - vocals
Don Shinn - Hammond organ
Jim Sachs - bass guitar
Tony Goode - guitar
Roger Pope - drums

John Keeping, Jim Sachs and Tony Goode had formerly been in Gene Anthony and the Lonely Ones.
The Soul Agents backed Rod Stewart after he left Long John Baldry's Hoochie Coochie Men and Bluesology and long before he joined the Faces.

UK Singles

1964 I Just Want To Make Love To You/Mean Woman Blues    Pye 7N 15660
1964 The Seventh Son/Let's Make It Pretty Baby                       Pye 7N 15707
1965 Don't Break It Up/Gospel Train                                          Pye 7N 15768
1966 A-Minor Explosion/Pits of Darkness                                  Polydor BM 56075
(Credited to Don Shinn and the Soul Agents)

Bern Elliott and the Fenmen

Members

Bern Elliott - vocals

Alan Judge - guitar

Wally Allen - guitar

Eric Wilmer - bass guitar

Jon Povey - drums

Formed in Erith (or Eltham), Kent in early 1961.
Ronnie Vaughan, a former singer, was their manager.

Played at the Star Club, Germany and other German clubs for a few months in 1961 and 1962. Signed to Decca in 1963.
The Fenmen split from Bern Elliott in May 1964. Elliott continued to record with a new group he formed called the Klan.
Wally Allen and Jon Povey joined the Pretty Things in 1968.

UK Singles

1963 Money/Nobody Told Me                                             Decca F 11770
1964 New Orleans/ Everybody Needs A Little Love           Decca F 11852

UK EPs

1964 Bern Elliott and the Fenmen                                       Decca DFE 8561

Known Gigs

17 Nov 1962 Margate, Dreamland Ballroom. With The Shipmates.

23 Nov 1963 Dunstable, California Ballroom, Bedfordshire. Supporting Gene Pitney. With Alan and the Diamonds, Unit 7, Rel Jason and the Blue Stars.

8 Jan1964 Salisbury, City Hall, Wiltshire. With The Dowlands and Pat Wayne and the Beachcombers.

11 Jan 1964 Dunstable, California Ballroom, Bedfordshire. With Rocking Henry and the Hayseeds and The Classmates.

22 Jan 1964 Birmingham, Town Hall. With The Searchers, The Hollies, The Fortunes and Screamin' Lord Sutch and his Savages.
6 Feb 1964 Liverpool, The Cavern, Mathew Street. With Heinz, The Marauders and Vic and the TTs.
5 Mar 1964 Blackburn, Odeon Theatre, Lancashire. Supporting Eden Kane. With Mike Sarne, Jet Harris, The Rolling Stones, Mike Berry, The Hollies, Billie Davis, Don Spencer, Billy Boyle.
8 Apr 1964 Bristol, Corn Exchange.
15 May 1964 Bradford, Gaumont. Supporting Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins. With The Animals, Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes, The Other Two and Larry Burns (compere). This was Bern Elliott and the Fenmen's only appearance on this package tour, replacing The Swinging Blue Jeans.

[From this point Bern Elliott was probably using The Klan temporarily calling themselves The Fenmen to honour bookings.]

16 Nov 1964 Chelmsford, Odeon, Essex. Supporting Brenda Lee. With Manfred Mann, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Heinz, Marty Wilde, The Flee-Rekkers, John Barry Seven, Bobby Patrick Six.

15 Aug 1964 Dunstable, California Ballroom, Bedfordshire. 

9 Jan 1965 Dunstable, California Ballroom, Bedfordshire.

27 Jan 1965 Stevenage, Locarno Ballroom, Hertfordshire.

The Motives

From Left to Right:

Graham Moss (drums)
John Barlow (lead guitar)
Alan Smith (bass guitar)
Anthony Coghlan (vocals)

















Members

Anthony Coghlan - vocals
John Barlow - lead guitar
Alan Smith - bass guitar
Graham Moss - drums

Formed in Stafford.
Anthony Coghlan and Alan Smith were formerly in the Stafford group The Electrons.

Known Gigs

Fri 22/01/1965 Stafford, Stafford Road Club, Assembly Rooms, Tipping Street. Supporting The Wolves.
Thu 28/01/1965 Stafford, North End Working Men’s Club.
Sat 30/01/1965 Stafford, Baswich Church Hall, Baswich Lane.

Thu 04/02/1965  Stafford, Borough Hall. Mod Ball. With The Kapitals, The Jalesquares, The Vigilanties, The Ravens and The Ashantis.

The Electrons

Photo taken in 1962.

Left to right:
Anthony Coghlan (vocals)
Denis Owen (lead guitar)
Alan Smith (bass guitar)
Alan Shaw (drums)
Les Weaver (rhythm guitar)










Members

Anthony Coghlan - vocals
Denis Owen - lead guitar
Alan Smith - bass guitar
Alan Shaw - drums
Les Weaver - rhythm guitar

Formed in Stafford, Staffordshire, England in 1960.
Anthony Coghlan and Alan Smith were later in The Motives.

The Electrons were a Stafford band formed out of the Rowley Street Methodist Youth Club in 1960. They became a semi-pro unit in 1961. Managed by Tony Moss, the band changed their line up early in 1963 when the drummer and rhythm guitarist got married.

Known Gigs

Fri 09/02/62      Stafford, NALGO Junior Social and Sports Committee Rock 'n' Roll Dance.

Fri 01/06/62       Stafford, NALGO Junior Social and Sports Committee Rock an' Roll Dance.

Wed 31/10/1962  Stafford, NALGO Senior Committee Dance.
Sat 03/11/1962    Gnosall Village Hall, Staffs.
Fri 09/11/1962    Stafford, NALGO Junior Committee Dance.
Sat 10/11/1962    Hixon Village Hall, Staffs.
Sun 11/11/1962   Stafford, Lotus Working Mens Club
Sat 17/11/1962    Gnosall Village Hall, Staffs.
Wed 21/11/1962  Stafford, Holmcroft Youth Centre. Talent Evening.
Sat 24/11/1962    Whitmore Village Hall, Staffs
Sun 25/11/1962   Stafford, Highfields Working Mens Club
Fri 30/11/1962    Hanbury Village Hall, Staffs.
Sat 01/12/1962    Stafford, Rising Brook School Hall
Sat 08/12/1962    Gnosall Village Hall, Staffs.
Sat 15/12/1962    Hixon Village Hall, Staffs.
Sat 22/12/1962    Gnosall Village Hall, Staffs.
Sat 29/12/1962    Gnosall Private Party, Staffs.  
Mon 31/12/1962  Stafford, Borough Hall. Staffordshire Fire Brigade New Year’s Eve Ball.
Wed 09/01/1963  Stafford, St. Austin’s School. Variety show - second rehearsal.
Sat 16/02/1963    Stafford, Rising Brook School. As Lloyd Cameron and the Electrons with Janette.
                            St. Peter’s Youth Fellowship.
Fri 01/03/1963    Stafford, Assembly Rooms, Tipping Street.
Fri 08/03/1963    Stafford, Borough Hall. As Ricky Fever and the Electrons. Supporting the Original
                           Checkmates.
Sat 20/04/1963    Gnosall Village Hall, Staffs.
Fri 26/04/1963    Stafford, Assembly Rooms, Tipping Street. As Lloyd Cameron and the Electrons.
                            11th Stafford Scout Group.
Sat 27/04/1963    Stafford, Baswich Church Hall, Baswich. As Lloyd Cameron and the Electrons.
                            11th Stafford Scout Group.
Fri 24/05/1963     Stafford, Assembly Rooms, Tipping Street.
Sun 26/05/1963   Stafford, Castle Works Sports and Social Club
Thu 06/06/1963   Stafford, Assembly Rooms, Tipping Street. Miss NALGO 1963 Dance.
                            With Pete Trent and the Travellers.
Thu 27/06/1963   Stafford, Assembly Rooms, Tipping Street. Date changed from 20/06/63.
                            Stafford and District Youth Football League.
Sun 21/07/1963    Stafford, E.E.C. Castle Works Sports and Social Club
Sat 27/07/1963     Gnosall Village Hall. ‘Miss Village Hall’ Dance.
Thu 08/08/1963   Stafford, North End Working Mens Club.
Fri 23/08/1963     Stafford Rugby Football Club, Newport Road. With the Climax Blues Band.
Sat 21/09/1963    Gnosall Village Hall, Staffs.
Thu 10/10/1963   Stafford, North End Working Men’s Club, Eccleshall Road.
Fri 11/10/1963     Hixon Memorial Hall, Staffs.
Fri 18/10/1963     Stafford, Assembly Rooms, Tipping Street. Littleworth Football Club.
Thu 24/10/1963   Stafford, Assembly Rooms, Tipping Street. NALGO County Officers Club.
                            With the Vigilanties.
Sat 02/11/1963     Hixon Memorial Hall, Staffs.
Fri 15/11/1963     Eccleshall Memorial Hall, Staffs.
Sat 16/11/1963     Penkridge Peace Memorial Hall, Staffs.
Sat 30/11/1963     Stafford, Baswich Church Hall. Rowley Street Methodist Youth Club.
Thu 19/12/1963    Stafford, North End Working Men’s Club, Eccleshall Road.
Tue 31/12/1963    Stafford, Borough Hall. Staffordshire Fire Brigade New Year’s Eve Dance.
                             Supported by the Countdowns.
Fri 03/01/1964     Eccleshall Memorial Hall, Staffs.
Thu 23/01/1964   Stafford College Of Technology, Beaconside.
Fri 24/01/1964     Stafford, Assembly Rooms, Tipping Street. Stafford Road Club.
Thu 13/02/1964   Stafford, North End Working Men’s Club, Eccleshall Road.
Sat 15/02/1964    Stafford Rhythm Club, St. Thomas’ Hall, Derby Street.
Thu 20/02/1964   Stafford, Assembly Rooms, Tipping Street. With the Countdowns. Staffs County
                            Officers’ Club.
Sat 22/02/1964     Eccleshall Memorial Hall, Staffs.
Sat 29/02/1964     Stafford, Baswich Church Hall. Rowley Street Methodist Youth Club.