Derry Wilkie and the Seniors

Members

Derry Wilkie - vocals (Born: 10 January 1941, Kent Gardens, Liverpool - Died: 22 December 2001)
Howie Casey - saxophone
Billy Hughes - rhythm guitar
Stan Foster - piano
Brian Griffiths - lead guitar
Phil Whitehead - bass guitar
Jeff Wallington - drums

Frank Wibberley - drums
Freddie Fowell - vocals

Formed in Liverpool in 1960.
The Seniors were formed out of the ashes of The Hy-Tones. Derry Wilkie joined them and them as a vocalist and they eventually changed their name.
Also known as Derry and the Seniors.
They successfully auditioned for Larry Parnes at the Wyvern Social Club on 10 May 1960. Other groups at the audition were Cliff Roberts and The Rockers, Cass and the Cassanovas, Gerry and the Pacemakers and the Silver Beetles. The audition was for Larry Parnes to decide on groups to use to back his artists on tour. The Seniors were booked by Parnes to back Duffy Power for a season in Blackpool, but Duffy Power fell ill and the season was cancelled.
Went to London and played The 2 I's coffe bar.
First of the Liverpool beat groups to play in Germany. They booked to play the Kaiserkeller Club in Hamburg from late July to early October 1960.
Back in England the group lost all of their equipment when the building that they stored it in burnt down.
Billy Hughes, Jeff Wallington and Stan Foster left at the end of 1960 and the group temporarily split.
In January 1961 they reformed as Howie Casey and the Seniors with Frank Wibberley on drums and Freddie Fowell and Derry WIlkie sharing the lead vocals.