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COVENTRY MUSIC TIMELINE 50'S TO PRESENT

NEW UPDATE (Currently working on the Who's Who (bit by bit) - March 7th 2009

Now that work has begun on the Coventry Music Exhibition by the Coventry Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, I'm attempting to do more work on this site -it will take a while. Already completed is a guide to Coventry in the Pop Charts 1959 to present in two posts. Apart from a year to year guide to the main bands / artists (signed and undigned) in the City with links to info about them where available, there will a who's who (it's never gonnna be toatlly complete of course -but..), and a list of singleas and albums by Cov artists that maybe didn't make the charts or intersting demos.

Yes - yet another Coventry music site for Vox! The purpose is explained in more detail in the profile but basically it's

 an offshoot of the Hobo Cov music Vox blog. I've created this one as I promised to complile a Timeline on Coventry music towards the creation of the Coventry Music Exhibition being developed for 2009 by the Herbert museum and art gallery and it occured to me that there is already a lot on the Hobo site so a new blog would give a clearer focus.

I will create a page for each year from the 50's to present outlining the main bands and the chart positions and venues

with links to more information, You Tube and audio where available. I will use the Hobo, Broadgate Gnome, Dean Nelson, Rex Brough  Where to find info on Coventry Bands (Hobo directory)  Coventry Band My Spaces and other Cov sites as sources of information and and the books by Pete Chambers - I Wish I Was Me by Pete Waterman and Ska'd for Life by Horace Panter.

Trev Teasdel

PS Part of the idea of compiling it on a public blog is to give Cov musicians a chance input information / dates or correct information. This is important as the museum team will be using it to develop the exhibition. Your chance to help build up the profile of Cov music.

 

NOTE - THE POSTS ON THIS SITE WILL BE ADDED TO AS MORE MATERIAL IS FOUND - FOR THE TIME BEING THEY ARE ALL A WORK IN PROGRESS.

 

 

 

NOTES 

• Will start from the 50's upwards - as it is a blog the 50's entries will be at the bottom eventually as the site develops.
• At the moment information for the fifties is lacking so all entries will be on one page unless the amount
  

  Folks
  of information warrents separation into pages.
• I will include benchmark entries related to Coventry or Rock n Roll history or politiacal history where relevant as reference points.
• I hope to construct a Who's Who eventually and the basis for a Two Tone Family tree which the Exhibition will need.
• Important notices about the development of the Coventry
  

  Godiva Rocks - Pete Chambers
  Music Exhibition will be put on this top blog along with links to the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Exhibition blog.
• Enjoy, watch it grow and feed back via comments. The museum is keen to find co-sponsors for the Exhibition - ideas towards that or even better  - geuine offers would be great and of course they wil need artists to supply costumes, instruments and other display items for loan.

Links to posts on the Hobo Site about the Coventry Music Exhibition -

Trev Teasdel and Pete Chambers both had similar proposals about the need for a

 Coventry Music Museum. Trevor drafted a proposal in 2003 and circulated it and Pete wrote an article in the Backbeat column of the Coventry Telegraph. You can find Pete's article by Googling his Backbeat Column (if I find it again I will link it here!) and below is a link to my original proposal.

Trevor's Proposal for a Coventry Music Museum

Here are some updates since Pete and I have been involved with the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery on the proposal which is now for a Coventry Music Exhibition for 2009 and which may, if successful, form a permanent display at the new Herbert.

Coventry Music Exhibition  Exhibition Update  Pete Chamber's proposal for Jerry Dammer's Diorama

Coventry's Walk of Fame  Also a link to the latest minutes will be on here soon.

Chart positions based on The Guiness Book of Hit Singles which uses the NME charts for the 1950's and Record Retailer (Now Music Week) top 50 from 10th March 1960. Sometimes I have cross referenced them with the NME 4o Years of NME charts where something has appeared in that chart but not the Record Retailer (the B side of Lovesick Blues - She Taught me to Yodel is an example. Where relevant I've used The Warner Guide to UK and US hit single charts to give an approximate US position and the NME 30 Years of Album Charts for albums.

Pete Chambers sent the following link also which I will explore. http://www.everyhit.com/

Trev's Latest Video featured on NME video page! http://www.nme.com/video/id/3nNsREGEYCc/search/trev

 

This section will be a work in progress for a while and even then I can't promise to have included everyone and have tabulated all the bands each musician has been in. However corrections and contributions are welcome. So far these are taken from The Broadgate Gnome site and Rex Brough site.

 

A

Adams Johnny  - Ld & Acous guit / vocs /songwriter - Flying Circus / The Mick Green Blues Band / Don’t Talk Wet / Fission / Eli / The Blue Jays / Squad

Albrighton Arthur (Modie) - bs / guit / harmonicas / vocs  / Record Producer / Dr Slagg’s Confessions / Peppermint Kreem (AKA The Plague / The Earth)/ Heaven Sent / The Makeshift / New City Sounds / Nektar
Albrighton Roy -  guit - Cure and the Peeps / Nektar (Euro group) / Hells Angels / Rainbows / The Wanderers / Quantum Jump
Alderson John - Ld guit / Steel guit - Wandering John / Last Fair Deal / Just Jake / Ottoman / Travelling Riverside Blues Band / also now with Neol Davies.
Allen Jim - sax - Concert / Mick Green Blues Band / EMF
Allen Woody (real name Alan Wood) -  vocs The Challengers
Amanor Crompton - Rth Guit / Vocs Hard Top 22 / The Selecter
Amos Graham - bs -  Cure and the Peeps (Peyps) / Sabres / Rainbows / Still Life
Anders Terry (F) - vocs - The Cardinals
Anderson Amos - Hard Top 22
Anderson Charlie - bs - Chapter 5 / The Selecter / The People / Hard Top 22
Andruszko Baz - (Accordian) - A Band called George / Dando Shaft Mk 2 /
Angelopoulis Paul - dms - Midnight Circus
Armstrong Colin - guit / vocs Music Box / Solo
Armstrong Rob - guitar maker / mandolin / Mandola / guit / vcocs New Modern Idiot Grunt / solo Band / Music Box / Quiet Riot /
Arnold Ted - The Angstroms / Davy Jones Crew
Aston Simon - bs - The Brethren
Ayres Pete - dms - The Invaders

B
Bailey Keith - Vocs - Vietnamese Babies

Bailey Robin - The Vampires
Barber Granville - dms - The Motion aka Revelution / Natural Gass
Bargeant John AKA Bo - guit / promoter / DJ / co ed of Hobo / Road Manger with Khayyam
Barter Martin - keys / vocs - Coconut Mat / Whistler / Concert / Just Jake / Trilogy / Ottoman/ Zirkus / Shkayla
Bassett Roger - guit - Jimmy Clifford and The Presidents
Bates Bill - vocs - The Eggy / Boll Weevils

Bates Martyn - Vocs - Reluctant Stereotypes
Beale Joe - guit / vocs - 3 am 66/67
Bean Ted - dms - The Challengers

Bell Julian - Keys - Machine/Hot Snacks / Inferno
Bell Larry - guit - Hells Bells
Bembridge Charles H - dms -  Hard Top 22 / The Selecter
Bentham Steve - guit / vocs - The Bo Weevils (Boll Weevils)
Bernard Barry - bs - The Vampires / Jigsaw / Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours
Bhundari Arun - bs / vocs - Stilletto
Bird Colin - bs -  The Confederates
Bird Michael - dms - The Confederates

Black Pauline (AKA Pauline Vickers) - Solo / Selecter / Selecter Acoustic / actress / Presenter
Blake Mick - ld guit - The Broomdusters
Blundell Steve - Dms - Jalopy Ride
Bogel Cedric - The Megadons
Bolsey Cliff - The Four Aces
Borkowski Ray - rth guit - Journey of a Lifetime
Bolton Polly - vocs - Dando Shaft / solo
Bosworth Peter - Guit - Ens
Borkowski Ray - Rth Guit - Journey of a Lifetime
Bowden Gil - Rthm guit. - The Cardinals

Bowen Terry - Smackee

Bowes Martin - Vocs / electronica / keys - Attrition / Editor of Alternative Sounds
Bowren Pete - Guit - Soundcasters / The Unkowns
Bowsie Bob - bs -  The Invaders

Boyle John - Guit - Denny Seyton and the Sabres
Bradbury John - dms - Nightease / Nack ed en / The Specials / Transposed Men / John Bradbury Allstars
Bradford Rick - bs - George and the Dragons

Bradley John - Guit - Editors
Bradley Mick - Dms - Sorrows (Italy period)
Brain Chris - Ld guit - The Distinctions
Bray Steve - dms - Stephenson's Rocket
Brewster Roy - percussion - Trilogy / Ottoman
Britnel Tenor - sax - Beat Preachers(session) / Jigsaw / The Fortunes

Brolly Bob - Bob Brolly and the Cavliers / Solo / Radio Presenter
Brooks Pat - bs / leader  -The Mustangs
Brook Paul - dms / vocs / producer / Composer / songwriter  - Analog / Reluctant Stereotypes / Ens
Brooks Rick - dms - The Angstroms 64 /6

Brough Rex - Bs - I / Editors / X Certs
Broughton Edgar - Vocs / guit - Edgar Broughton Band / Tony and the Talons / Original Roadrunners
Broughton Steve - dms - Edgar Broughton Band / Tony and the Talons / Original Roadrunners
Brown Brian - guit - Six Appeal Take One
Brown Desmond - Keys - Chapter 5 /  The Selecter / People / Transposed Men
Brown Terry - Smackee
Budd Dave Sax - Bung
Buggins Jonny - The Vampires
Bullen Roger - upright bass - Dando Shaft
Bunker Frank - vocs - The Debonaires / The Smokestacks
Burgoyne Mick (vocals, guitar, violin, tambourine, glockenspiel),  - African Grass / Fresh Maggots / DBXL / Flood
Butterfield Roy - guit / Bs - Indian Summer / Runestaff / Monster Magnet / The Little Darlings aka The Pines and The Sensations
Burns Dennis - guit / vocs / keys - Flood / DBXL / Aorta Major / Stiletto / The Urge

Byers Mark -Guit - Wild Boys
Byers Roddy AKA Roddy Radiation - Guit / vocs - Heaven Sent / Specials / Tearjerkers 

C
Cairns Andy - Ld guit / acoustic / mandolin / vocs /  - Ricky’s Band (with Horace Panter not sure of official name for band c1975) / Trev Teasdel and Don’t Talk Wet / solo folk.
Callaghan Ant - vocs / percussion / songwriter - Eli / Fission
Campbell Bill - bs - The Eggy / The Gazelles / Coconut Mat

Campbell Stan - Vocs - Specials
Campbell Tony - guit - Jigsaw / The Mighty Avengers
Cannon Sean - folk singer - The Gaels
Carpenter Dave - bs - The Rivals
Carr Sue - vocs - Pride and Passion
Casey John  - Guit - Orange Flavour aka Tina and the Hotstrings (Drums)

Chambers Gus - Vocs - Squad / 21 Guns
Chambers Pete (played in non performing band) - Journalist / author of books of Cov music / Broadcaster / mover and shaker / Coventry Ambassador

Chives John - Bait / Godiva Ride
Clark Nigel acout guit / vocs / songwriter - Cardinal

Clarke Tony - Rth Guit - Hot Snacks 
Clifford Jimmy - Vocs - Jimmy Clifford The Presidents
Cobb Dave (Smiler) - bs - Journey of a Lifetime
Coffel Howard - guit - The Radicals
Coleman Stuart - bs - Beat Preachers / The Cateracts / Flying Machine / Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours

Collins Michael - Vocs / Guit - Machine / Hot Snacks
Cosman Dick - dms - The Cardinals (Cosmen Ex Tommy Steele)
Cooper Christopher - dms - The Gazelles
Cooper Dave - vocs / guit songwriter - Dando Shaft
Cook Jo Jo  - Jo Jo Cook and the Protection Racket
Colkin Dave-  bs  - Magazine  The Matadors
Connelly Kevin - Dms - The Chicanes / The Money Spiders / Eyes of Blue
Connelly Steven (AKA Scon / Roadant / Alphonso etc) poet / actor / German Film Star and muse - also roadie / with The Clash / Sex Pistols

Conway David - Harmonica (1957) Comedy troop.
Cottrel Steve - guit -  Indian Summer

Court Paul - Vocs / Guit - Primitives
Courtier Miles - Guit - The Radicals
Cullen Maurice - rth guit - The Smokestacks
Cowling Cliff  -  boogie piano / vocs / organizer – Cliff Cowling Trio
Cox Andy - bs - Protege

Cox Diane - Dms - Jessie Boy Five, Aching Tongue

Cox Gary - Guit - Protege

Cox Tony - Barnabas 70/72
Craner Joe - dms - The Bo Weevils (Boll Weevils) / Ra Ho Tep
Cripps Colin - guit -  The Mountain Ash Band
Cristy Chris - Hard Top 22

Crowley Tony - Dms - Denny Seyton and the Sabres
Crowshaw Martin - guit - Stephenson's Rocket
Crum Ted - Sneaks Noise
Cumner Robert -  Rth Guit - The Chicanes / The Money Spiders

Cunningham Danny - Guit - Squad
Cure Martin - vocs -  Cure and the Peeps (Peyps) / Rainbows / The Sabres / Still Life
Curtis James - vocs songwriter - Peppermint Circus
Curtis Lynn - vocs - The Mustangs

D
Dalton Ray - The Unkowns

Dakar Rhoda - Vocs - Specials

Dammers - Keys - Specials
Dancer Andy - bs - Jalopy Ride
Darby Gill - singer songwriter
Darby John - vocs -  The Goodtime Losers Aka The Sensations
Davies Alan - Bs/vocs - African Grass 68/ 70
Davies John - bs - The Mad Classix
Davies Neol - Ld guit / vocs / Sitar / songwriter Asgard / Cat’s Grave / Mead / Transposed Men / Chapter 5 / The Selecter  / The original Selecter / Box of the Blues /

Davies Pete - Dms - The Wild Boys /  Marabou / Dick Envy / UKSubs / Roy Harper / Roddy Radiation and the Tearjerkers / The Strapps / Rhubarb Tarts / Steve Fiction And the Rebel Sci-fi blues bastards  / Gaz Top / Here and Now / Planet Gong  (For more info see Dave's Comment at the bottom of this).  
Daviole Andrew - rth guit / lead vocs - Seagull
Davoile Pete - dms Piano / Keys / backing Vocs - Peppermint Kreem / Seagull
Davoile Sam - dms / lead vocs - Seagull

Decker Carol - Vocs -  T' Pau
Delaney Colin - Ld guit - The Good Time Losers Aka The Sensations
Dempsey Frank  - Managed New City Sounds
Dempsey Kev - guit / Dms / Acoustic guitar / vocs -  The Young Ones /Dando Shaft / Side Effect / Boll Weevils (Bo Weevils)
Dent Graham - guit / Keys - Wave
Devoel - The Seagulls
Devoel (brother of above) - The Seagulls

Dicky Chris - Bs - God's Toys

Dill - Vocs - God's Toys / I

Dillam Robert - Guit - Adorable

Dix Ady - Guit - L'Homme de Terre, Targets
Dodd Bill -  vocs /bs - The Broomdusters / Hard Rock
Doherty Pete - Vocs / guit -  Libertines / Babyshambles
Dolphin Leigh - Guit - Fresh Maggots
Doyle Mick  - vocs - Jalopy Ride

Dring Blink - Ld Guit - Denny Seyton and Sabres
Duggan John - guit - Drops of Brandy
Duggan Ted - dms - Purple Haze (60's) / Acorn / Rogation Sunday / The Liberators / Drops of Brandy / Banco De Gaia / Paris 80's) / Chevy (80's) / Mudsliders

Dullaghan - Bs - Primitives

Dunkly Peter - Bs - Jessie Boy Five
Dunne Chris - dms - Ens, Reluctant Stereotypes
Dutton Ray - Ld Guit - Los Cimmarons

Dwyer Gus - Dms - Colourfield
Dyer Des - dms - Surf Cyders / Jigsaw

E
Eastbury Mick - bs -  Renegades

Eardly Barry - Guit - Zirkus
Eaton Barry - dms  - The Little Darlings AKA The Pines & The Sensations
Evans Andy - guit - Jimmy Clifford and the Presidents

Eddington Richard - Jessie Boy Five 
Edgson Steve  - Clarinet / Recorder  / 2nd Guit  - Analog / Reluctant Stereotypes / Pink Umbrellas / Ens / Giraffes / Two Giraffes
Edmonds Colin - Dms - African Grass 68 /70
Edwards Jimmy  - vocs organ -  Ning
Edwareds John  -Rth guit  - The Rippers
Elliot Chuck  - guit - Nightease
Elson Ian  - guit viola / fiddle mandolin / tenor banjo - The Brethren / The Heart of England Folk Group / Sneaks Noise

Ellis Claire - Vocs - Flackoff

F

Fags n Booze Johnny - Guit - Human Cabbages
Fardon Don (Aka Don Maughan / Wil Pithy)  - Ld singer  - The Sorrows / Solo / The Hawks
Fairclough Dave  - Keyboard -  Peppermint Kreem

Faircloth Dave - Keys - Plague
Felton Rod  - singer / songwriter guit / Kazoos Solo / New Modern Idiot Grunt Band / Dando Shaft (reformed version 74)
Fennel Tony  - dms  - The Mustangs / The Sorrows (Session drummer on Take a Heart) Johnny Goodison Showband

Fijalkowski Piotr - Vocs / Guit - Adorable / Casino / Polak
Finlay Bruce  - Dms  - The Sorrows / ANWR (Alaska band)
Finlay Dave  - voc organ   - The Matadors
Fisher Peter  - bs -  The Smokestacks / Staveley Makepiece
Flanagan Terry -  Ld guit -  Journey of a Lifetime
Fletcher Nigel -  Dms - Statveley Makepiece / Lieutenant Pigeon
Fletcher Tony  - congas -  Monster Magnet
Ford Noel -  Ld guit - The Establishment Aka The Congress
Fowdrey Brian  - Sax  -  The Mad Classix
Freeman Dave  - guit  - Midnight Circus / The Flys / Tearjerkers / The Lover Speaks
Freeman Wal  - dms  - The Establishment Aka The Congress
French Johnny -  Vocs  - The Young Ones
Froud Brian  - dms  - Journey of a Lifetime
Fryers Chuck -  organ / vocs guit -  (Reformed Sorrows)

G
Gawthorpe Mick  - sax flute voc keys  - Whistler / solo
Gaye Dene AKA Dylis Birch  - singer  - The Establishment Aka The Congress

Gedney Dave - Guit / Vocs - Mix / End / Urge
Gee Alan  - Rth Guit  - The Pickwicks

Gilks Martin - Rth Guit - Los Cimmerons
Gilroy John  - guit -  The Little Darlings / The Pines

Gissane Pat - Vocs - Pat Gissane Showband
Glenville Dawn  - Vocs  -  Smackee
Glenvile Carol  - Vocs  - Smackee
Godwin Keir  - bs  - The Cardinals

Goodwin Rod - Bs - Flackoff
Golding Lynval  - Guit / Vocs  - Pharaohs Kingdom / Specials / Fun Boy Three / Solo
Goodison Johnny AKA Johnny B Great  (Aka as songwriter Peter Simons - Johnny B Great / Johnny B Great and the Quotations

Gough Billy - Dms - End, Swinging Cats, L'Homme de Terre
Grant Arthur  - bs  - Edgar Broughton Band / Tony and the Talons
Green Mick  - vocs guit  - The Mick Green Blues Band / Railroad / Eli / Rein Chantre
Griffis Brian  - dms  - The Makeshift

Gritton Kevin - bs - Adorable
Groves Mick  - Ld guit  - The Invaders
Gudger Keith  - Rth guit  - The Establishment Aka The Congress
Guissane Pat - Vocs Pat Guissane Showband
Guits Mark  - Rth guit -  Los Cimmarons
Gunn Roger -  Ld guit  - The Chicanes / The Money Spiders
Gunton Paul -  guit vocs  - Surf Cyders
Gravenor John  -  vocs / guit  - Wandering John / Last Fair Deal / Thundering Pig / solo

H
Haddon Steve - Reluctant Stereotypes / Ens
Hagan Dave (Euphonium)  - Gui /vocs / bs -  Surf Cyders
Hale Barry - Soundcasters
Hale Robert - Soundcasters

Hall Terry - Vocs / Guit - Squad / Specials ? Fun Boy Three / Colourfield
Hancock Keith  - Barnabas 70 /72
Hands Mick  - The Image
Hardcastle Lynda  - vocs / recorders The Mountain Ash Band /

Hardip - Hardip and Prem - Bhangra 
Harker Malc  - Dms / bass / vibes  - Acme Patent Electric Band / Indian Summer / Dodgers / Ultrasound
Harkin Terry  - The Image
Hankinson Graham  - singer guit  - The Invaders
Harmen Billy  - dms  - The Debonaires / The Smokestacks

Harold Mark - Bs - Mix / End
Harris Kevin   - Vocs  - Stephenson Rocket
Harrison Kevin -  Guit / vocs / keys /  - Whistler / Zoastra / The Urge / Realife / Transposed Men

Harrison Lynda (AKA Lynda Wulf) - Vocs - Whistler / Zoastra / Urge / Realife
Harrison Richard  - dms  - The Rippers
Harrison Steve -  dms -  Mick Green Blues Band / Nack ed en / Railroad

Harrison Stuart - Guit - Jessie Boy Five
Harrison Tess  - guit -  The Rivals
Harte Ray  - guit  - Acorn / The Liberators / Rogation Sunday / Drops of Brandy
Hartley Clive  - Keyboards -  Peppermint Circus
Hartley Mick  - Bs - Analog 73 /74 / Ens / Reluctant Stereotypes
Hatton Al  - guit / bs  / vocs  - Indian Summer (orig member) Runestaff / Trilogy / Ottoman

Hatwood Mark - Dms - Squad
Haywood Ray  - guit / Bs - The Makeshift / The Plague / Peppermint Kreem
Hawkins Neil  - bs -  The Challengers
Hawkswell Nicky  - bs  - 3 AM 1966 / 67
Hayward Ray  - guit -  Peppermint Kreem

Heanes Colin - Dms - Reluctant Stereotypes, King

Heisler Jerome - Guit / Vocs - End / Team 23
Hendrickson Arthur 'Gaps'  - Vocs - Chapter 5 / The Selecter
Heppingstall Harry -  dms  - The Matadors / Wave / Khayyam / Side Effect

Hewitt John (Stonki) - Dms - Blown Fuse / Team 23

Hill Jim - Urge

Hill Rob - Dms - Squad / Mix / Pink Umbrellas  
Hill Vince  - singer Solo
Hilton Trevor  - Eyes of Blue

Hobley - Dms - God's Toys, The People

Hobson Andy - bs - Primitives
Hodgkins Robert  - Rth guit   - Hells Angels
Hodgkins Roger bs Hells Angels
Hopkins Bob 'spindler'  - Keys -  Peppermint Kreem

Holliday Vince - Vampires
Hollsworth Christopher  - Rth Guit  - The Gazelles
Holt Graham  - Folklore
Hooper Paul  - dms / pcuss  - Indian Summer / Dodgers / Monster Magnet /  Last Fair Deal / The Fortunes / Smackee / Zips
Hopkins Bob  - Keyboards -  Natural Gass
Horton Ken   - Barritone  - Ray King Soul Band / Pact

Horton Stan - Bs - Human Cabbages
Howells Terry -  organ  - The Peyps (Peeps) Ray King Soul Band / Still Life
Hughes Joe  - bs  - Midnight Circus / The Flys / The Lover Speaks
Hughes Paul  - dms  - The Brethren
Hunt Chris  - dms -  The Goodtime Losers Aka The Sensations
Hutchinson Silverton -  dms  - Pharaoh's Kingdom / Specials / Machine / Hot Snacks
Hutt Chris  - Ld guit -  The Rippers

I

J

Jackson Arthur - guit - Flackoff
Jackson Barry  - Multi instrumentalist / artist  - Folklore
Jackson Bill  - Vocs /guit / recorder / piano)  - April / Monster Magnet
Jackson Bill (a second BJ!)
Jackson Bob  - (Bass / Vocs / Keyboards / songwriter)  - Acme Patent Electric Band 67/68 Indian Summer 69 / 71 / Ro Ro / Rigormortise / Ross / Keith Moon  / Dave Byron (Uriah Heap) / Monster Magnet / Dodgers / Pete Brown & Piblokto / Badfinger /  The Motors / The Searchers / Jeff Beck / Jack Bruce / The Fortunes

Jackson Gary - Guit / Vocs - Targets 
James Colin  - The Four Aces
James Eddie  - Jazz   - The Eddie James Sound
James Keith  - bs  - New City Sounds / Peppermint Kreem / Rainbows / Flying Machine
James Steve  - Guit -  Peeps
James Tim  - Vocs / harmonica / Sax - 3 Am 66/67 / Ra Ho Tep 70 / Monster Magnet 74/75 / Last Fair Deal 2000/ Acme Patent Electric Band 67/68 /  - Bo Weevils (Boll Weevils) / Soul Sect
Jarmen Pamela  - Vocs -  Orchids
Jenkins Malcolm  - dms -  Ray King Soul Band / Pact / The Pickwicks
Jenkins Martin  - guit / vocs / Mandolin / Mandola / flute  -  The Angstroms 64 /66 / Davy Jones Crew / Dando Shaft / duo with Bert Jansch / Whippersnapper / Hedgehog Pie / One Day Thomas / Mathews Southern Comfort 
Johnson Allan  - Carol and the Electrons

Johnson Chris - Bait 
Johnson Steve - bs   - Staveley Makepiece / Lieutenant Pigeon

Johnston Paul - Dms - I / Courtiers of Fashion
Jones Barry - Bs - Mix / Pink Umbrellas

Jones Bev  - vocs  - Hells Angels
Jones Chris -  Ld guitar /vocs  - The Chris Jones Aggression / Just Jake / Wave / Khayyam / Quanna Parker / Side Effect
Jones Steve  - guit vocs -  Cure and the Peeps / Flying Machine / Sabres
Jones Valerie - vocs - Orchids

Jordon Pete - Alto Sax - Urge

Joyce Caron - Vocs - Clique / L'Homme De Terre
Joyce Rodney  - Congas / manager -  3 AM / Moonaxe /  Khyaam / Wave
Jukes Terry  - rht guit -  The Sorrows
Jumel Avril - Vocs -  Household
Jumel Barry - Vocs -  Household
Jumel Terry - Vocs - Household
Jumel Wayne  - Vocs - Household
 
K

Kavaz Nick - Keys - God's Toys
Kay Ted  - Percussion bongos / Tablas   - Dando Shaft / Wave
Kelly Gordon  Ld guit  - The Angstroms 64 /66
Kendrick Dick  - dms -  Los Cimmarons

Kenzie John - Editors
Keller Bill  - bs -  Bung / Temple / Reluctant Stereotypes (early)
Kennelly Paul  - vocs / guit ?  gags Dr Slagg’s Confessions / The Motion aka Revelution / Natural Gass / Peppermint Kreem / The MakeShift / The Plague
Ker Don - Staveley Makepiece

Kiddy Colin - keys - I
Kierton Dennis -  Guit -  The Young Ones
Kierton Tommy  - Keys  - The Young Ones
Kirton Gary -  dms  - Whistler / Trigon / Bung
King Tony -  vocs -  Journey of a Lifetime
King Paul -  vocs -  Reluctant Stereotypes / Pink Umbrella / King / Solo
King Pete -  dms  - Midnight Circus / The Flys

King Pete - Dms -  Clique / Targets
King Ray  - Vocs -  King Size Kings / Ray King Soul Band / Pact / Pharaoh's Kingdom, Boss, Cyamde
Kingsbeer Barry  - The Establishment Aka The Congress
Knapper Phil  - vocs /guit songwriter  - Trev Teasdel and Don’t Talk Wet. / Solo.  Played with Neil O'Connor / John Gravenor / Alex Murphy
Knapper Stu  - vocs / songwriter -  Riot Act
Kutner Beverley (later Beverley Martyn) Singer / songwriter John & Beverley Martyn / also solo artist

L

Lancebury Jim - Guit - King / Team 23

Lamb Paul  - Rth guit  - The Angstroms 64 /66
Langton Jim Tenor – Ray King Soul Band / Pact
Lanker Paul  - dms  - Peppermint Circus

Lapworth Ron - Bs - Wild Boys
Laughton Dec - Soundcasters
Lawrence Pat (F)  - Sound Blancer - April
Lawrence Ron -  8 & 6 string bss / guit / vcles.  - April / Runestaff / Monster Magnet / Sniff & the Tears
Laws Roger  -  guit -  Rangers
Layton Clive  - Keys (son of Archie Layton well known Cov composer and pianist) - Bung
Leeman Terry  - Organ  - Ray King Soul Band / Pact / the Peeps / Rainbows / Moonaxe
Leighton-Watts Malcolm  - Ld Guit   - Eko Four / Stringbeats
Liggins Fred  - Alto Sax - Boll Weevils (Bo- Weevils)

Little Billy - Dms - Squad / Urge
Llewellyn Barry  - dms  - Hells Angels

Logan Mike - Organ - Denny and the Sabres
Lomas Nigel  - dms -  The Clouds / The Eggy / Renegades . The Zodiacs / Dodgers / Zips
Lomas Roger  - guit/bass / vocs -  George and the Dragon / The Clouds / The Sorrows / The Eggy / Rog and Pip / Renegades /The Dodgers / The Selecter (producer) Monster Magnet / The Zips / The Dodgers
Long Tom  - guit  - The Makeshift / Pinkerton's Assorted Colours
Longworth Jimi  - drums  - 3 AM 1966 /67

Lord Cary - Bs - L'Homme de Terre
Lovegrove Simon  - dms  - Eli /  Fission / Trev Teasdel and Don’t Talk Wet (loose backing arrangement)
Lucas Martin guit Natural Gass
Lucas Tony (AKA Tony Martin) bs The Clouds / The Storytellers / Tony Martin and the Echo Four
Ludvigson Ziggy bass Renegades

Lupin Larry - Guit - God's Toys

Lynch Tony - Dms - Wild Boys
Lynne Jeff The Mad Classix

Lyon Toby - Guit / organ / Keys - Colourfield / L'Homme de Terre / Swinging Cats

M
Mackenzie Rob  - Smackee

Mackie James - Keys - Selecter
Mc Cormick  Jackie  - Vocs -  Beat Preachers / The Boothill 6
McDonald Ian - vocs  - Drops of Brandy
McIntosh John  - Doble Bs  - New Modern Idiot Grunt Band / Sneaks Noise

Mc Manus 'Roobish' Gary - Bs - Specials

McNulty Sam - Bs / Vocs - Squad / Giraffes / Two Giraffes
McOvoy Mick - Soundcasters
Maddox Bob - The Four Aces
Maddox John - The Unknowns
Mahon Kevin - Tenor  - Jigsaw / The Mighty Avengers
Mansel-Edwards Barrie  - Roadie with Ultrasound / Uncle Sam

Marks Toby - Banco De Gaia
Maughn Don AKA Fardon (see Don Fardon)
Marriott Graham -  Ld guit  - The Smokestacks
Martin Tony - bs  - The Pickwicks
Martin Vince {Holliday)  - Vocs - The Vampires / (JD Entertainments) (Big Three Entertainments)

Mathews Brian - BBC Presenter / DJ
Mathews Ronald   - Folklore
Maxwell Johnny  - guit  - Rangers

Mayne Nick  - Ld guit   - Magazine Matadors
Medlock Richie - Dms - Ottoman / Urge / Smackee / I / X Certs /
Meek Barry  - Carol and the Electrons
Merrigan Forbes  -  Ld Guit -   Beat Preachers / The Boothill 6
Miller Steve - Organ - (Nuneaton) Delivery (1966-73), Caravan (1971-72), Steve Miller/Lol Coxhill Duo, Steve Miller/Mark Hewins Duo (1985), -  Steve Miller Trio/Quartet, Phil Miller/Steve Miller/Mark Hewins Trio
Miles John  - Ld Guit  - The Pickwicks
Millinere Steve  - Keys -  The Pepys (Peeps)
Milward Mick -  vocs -  The Rivals
Mitchell Mitch Paul -  Ld guit  - Hard Rock  / The Midnights
Mollins Tom  - Smackee

Monahan Paul - aka Tinto Spinsilver -  Vox - Zirkus
Morden Dick -  Ld guit   - The Cardinals
Morgan Tony (Mojo) bs /vocs  - Mick Green Blues Band / Eli / Railroad / Rein Chantre / EMF / Travelling Riverside Band / Mojo Morgan’s Hoochie Choochie Band
Morton Paul  - Ld vocs Dms  - Ultrasound
Moss Dave   - Mead

Mulvey Nigel - Bs - Squad / Machine / Zirkus / Urge

Murphy Edward - Ld Guit - Denny Seyton and the Sabres

N
Naylor Barry  - Peppermint Circus
Neale Johnny   - Johnny Neal Amalgamation
Newman Tony  - vocs  - Flying Machine / Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours

Newton Eddie - Vocs - Specials

Niblock Ashley - Keys - Attrition
North Steve  - Special effects - Acme Patent Electric Band
Norris Dave  - Rth Guit  - The Mad Classix
Norris Peter  - bs  - The Rippers

Nigent Nick - Bait

O
O’Brian Gerry -  dms  - The Mad Classix
O'Connor Hazel Vocs / sg writer / actor
O'Connor Neil guit / vocs Midnight Circus / The Flys / Hazel O'Connor's Megahype / Solo 
O’Rourke Mick  - Vocs  - From the Sun / Gazelles / The Image
O’Sullivan Malcolm  - vocs  - The Little Darlings aka The Pines & The Sensations
Odey Mike  - dms -  Jimmy Clifford and the Presidents
Oliver Georgina - Ld vocs  - Orchids

Oliver Roland (Ollie) AKA Doc Mustard - Guit / Bs / Harmonica / Vocs - Machine / Hot Snacks / Ring / Solo
Osbourne Graham  - Concrete Parachute
Ottaway Ron  - The Unknowns
Ousby Barry  - Concrete Parachute
Overton Bill  - guit  - The Broomdusters
Owen Neil  - bs  - The Radicals

P

Packer Phil - Dms - Sorrows
Packham Phil  - bs -  The Sorrows
Palmer Alan - dms  -The Vampires
Palmer Carl  - dms -  ELP
Page Larry - Promoter / DJ Orchid Ballroom

Panjabi MC

Panter Horace - bs - Breaker / Specials / Box of the Blues

Pardesi Slinder - The Pardesi Music Machine
Parks Jany -  Sneaks Noise
Pask Amanda  - flute - Bung
Paste Bill  - Vocs -  Eggy
Payne Alan -  Pretty Flamingoes / Rapiers
Parr Eric  - dms  - The Rivals
Parson Geoff -  Guit  -  Beat Preachers 63 / 66 / Cateracts
Parsons Keith   - dms -  The Vampires
Peace Graham  - guit  - The Zodiacs
PennyCook Dave  - (Guit)  - Acme Patent Electric Band 67/68

Pepper Dave - Guit / Keys / Vocs - I / Team 23 / X Certs / Courtiers of Fashion / The Dave Pepper Band
Peters Mick  - Carol and the Electrons
Phillips Keith R  - The Four Clubs
Philpotts Roger – Four Aces

Pitcher Andy - Bait / Godiva Ride
Pool Bob   - guit  - Nightease
Pool Giles  - Sneaks Noise
Porter Phil  - Bs  - Ra Ho Tep

Powell Roy - bs  - The Angstroms 64 /66

Pullen Charlie - Dms - Flackoff

Prem - Hardip and Prem - Bhangra
Price Wes  - guit  -  The Unknowns / The Sorrows / Indian Summer
Prince Roger  - (Guit) -  A Band Called George
Pryal Jim  - Dms / vocs / Electronic producer -  Bands - Ning / Wandering John / Hot Snacks / Bonediggers . Travelling Riverside Band / Inferno / Smackee / Stilletto /  Solo projects - Culture Fuzion (Electronica with Trev Teasdel on lyrics / vocs) / Vinyl Confuzion (solo) (Dance)

Q

R
Rai Ron  - dms -  The Radicals

Ratty Ray - International Megastars
Redfern Keith  - Vocs  -  The Establishment Aka The Congress
Redhead Maurice -  Vocs -  The Zodiacs
Reed Gordon -  dms -  Rainbows
Reid Dave  - Keys -  Stephenson's Rocket
Reynolds Joe  - (Sax / flute / poet)  - The Chris Jones Aggression (session) Willow / A Band Called George mk 2 / Selecter (session)
Reiss Margaret  - org  - The Chads
Richardson Gary  - percussion – congas / bongos / claves and dms April
Richardson Neil  - bs -  Nack ed en / Drops of Brandy
Richmond Barbara - vocs -   The Confederates
Rivers John  - organ -  Jalopy Ride

Roberts Mick - Keys - King

Roberts Rosa - Vocs - Human Cabbages
Robins Rick  - The Midnights
Rogers Graham  - guit  - Orange Flavour aka Tina and the Hotstrings
Rolaston Graham  - dms -  Beat Preachers / Cateracts
Ross Mick  - bs  - Ning
Rowe Alan - Folklore
Russel Tom  - dms - George and the Dragons
Rushton John  - Ld Guit -  / vocals Analog / Quasar
Ryan Tony (Tom?)  - dms  - Peppermint Kreem / The Plague

S
St Leon Craig - Vocs - Criminal Class 

Sampson Paul  - guit / bs /  producer of Primitives / Trigon / Mick Green Blues Band / Reluctant Stereotypes / Bung / Pink Umbrellas / Ens / Temple
Sandall Keith   - The Midnights
Saunders Bob  - guit  - The Challengers
Saunders Carol  - vocs  - Carol and the Electrons
Savage Alan  - dms  - Still Life

Savo - Sax - Jessie Boy Five

Saxon Dave - Dms  / Denny Seyton and the Sabres
Scott Clive  - organ / vocs  - Scott and the Antarctics / The Transatlantics / Jigsaw
Scott Dick  - bs -  Los Cimmarons

Scott Lally - Guit - Denny Seyton and Sabres
Segedely Tina  - Vocs -  Orange Flavour aka Tina and the Hotstrings

Seward Mark - Dms  - Protege

Seyton Denny - Vocs - Denny Seyton and the Sabres

Shale Karl - bs - Aching Tongue / Colourfield / Solid Action / Vagabond Joy
Shanahan Jon  - singer songwriter - acoustic guit.
Shanahan Paul   - guit  - Jalopy Ride / Cupid’s Inspiration
Shelley Peter  - Stephenson's Rocket

Shipley John - Guit - Specials / Swinging Cats / Urge
Slade Paul  bs Ray King Soul Band / Pact
Smale Barry  - bs -  The Bo Weevils AKA (Boll Weevils)
Smith Bob  - keys  - Jalopy Ride
Smith Chris -  vocs keys  -  East Side Protection / Sorrows (Italy period) / The Rippers
Smith Dave -  Vocs  - Los Cimmarons

Smith Graham - Bs - Team 23 / X-Certs

Smith Kendell - Vocs - Urge

Smith Kevin - Dms - X Certs
Smith Howard  - vocs  - The Bretheren
Smith Pete -  bs -  Natural Gass
Smith Ron  - Ld guit  - The Mad Classix
Smitham Mick  - guit  -  Monster Magnet / Smackee
Sommerville Steve  - keys  - The Radicals

Snidely Wil - Bs - Adorable
Sparkes Reg  - bs  - From the Sun / Soul Sect
Sparke Rick  - dms  - From the Sun /
Sparkes Steve -  Ld Guit backing vocs -  Seagull
Sparkes Tony  - dms -  Soul Sect

Spring - Vocs - Solid Action
Stansfield Graham -  Ld guit  - The Gazelles / The Image

Staples Neville - Vocs - Specials / Fun Boy Three
Storer John Barnabas 70/72
Stratten Paul  - guit -  The Rivals
Street Phil   - congas  - Moster Magnet

Strickland Paul - Bs / Vocs - Targets
Sturgess John  - Rth guit  - The Invaders
Sutton Dave  - guit  - The Motion aka Revelution
Sutton Graham  - bs /  - The Vampires

Swarbrick Dave - Fiddle - Fairport Convention / Whippersnapper / later resident in Cov
Sykes Peter -  The Midnights

T
Talbot Steve  - dms  - Magazine  / The Matadors
Tallis Alan  - bass -  Peppermint Circus
Tanner Kevin -  bs Ld vocs -  Seagull
Tayton Steve - Sax / Flute - Staveley Makepiece / Wave /  Khyaam

Taz - Stereo Nation
Teasdel Trev - (Vocs / guit / keyboard / songwriter) Wrote song with Pete Waterman (1970) /Railroad (1971) / Don’t Talk Wet / Trev and the Collective Unconscious / solo / performing poet / editor of Hobo (all in Coventry) / The Euclidean Mushroom Band (AKA The Multimedia Band) (Middlesbrough) / Culture Fuzion (Electronica 2008) (guest lyrics and vocs with Jim Pryal) / The Nerve (Newcastle) (guest lyricist / vocs on electronica)

Teers Steve - Keys / Trombone / Human Cabbages / Urge

Thompson Johnny - Guit / Vocs - Wild Boys
Thompson Mick -  12 & 6 string guits  - / Steel guit / vcles April
Todd Gibb  - The Kerries (also hosted Cov’s first Folk Club)
Tomkins Bernie  - bs  - The Chicanes / The Money Spiders
Trevisick Nicky – (Dms)  - A Band Called George / Whistler / SMACK /
Tudor Edward (Ted Crum) - vocs harmonica -  The Brethren / Sneaks Noise

Tweedie Pete - Dms - Primitives
Twig Alan  - bs  - Stephenson's Rocket
Twigger Terry  - bs  - The Little Darlings aka The Pines & The Sensations
Tyson Neil  - vocs guit   - Magazine / Matadors

U
Underwood John  - guit  -  The Elements
Unitt Victor (or Unit) -  guit   - Rangers / Edgar Broughton Band

V
Van Ristell George  - guit banjo vocs  - Sneaks Noise
Varney Al  - bs  - Fission / The Blue Jays
Vaughan - Swinging Cats / Transposed Men

Vaughan Adrian - keys - Team 23 - The End

W
Waites Al -  guit  - The Good Time Losers aka The Sensations / The Little Darlings aka The Pines & The Sensations
Wale Graham  - organ  - The Debonaires
Wale Janet   - Janet & The Three Spires
Wale Ray (Roy?) - guit -  The Debonaires / Image
Wall Ian  - vocs  - Sneaks Noise

Wall Roy - Sax - Team 23

Wall Tony - Bs - Reluctant Stereotypes / King

Waller Julia - Vocs - Attrition
Walls Dave  - Guit /  - Tina and the Hotstrings / Orange Flavour
Walker Barry  - keys  - Eyes of Blue / Smackee
Walker Bill -  Organ  - Asgard
Walker Dave -  bs  - Ultrasound / Uncle Sam
Walker Graham   - Ld guit / vocs  - Hard Rock / Stiletto
Walker Ron  - dms -  The Brethren / The Broomdusters / Hard Rock

Wankling David - Vocs / Stylophone / alto sax - Urge
Warner Ollie -  dms -  The Autocrats / Goodmen /
Warner Tony  - organ -  From the Sun
Ward Pete  - (Hammond organ)  - Acme Patent Electric Band 67/68

Wardle Colin - Bs - Vietnamese Babies
Waterman Pete  - (Vocs / guit / flute / songwriter / producer / DJ / Presenter etc.) SAW / The Pilgrims / Tommorow's kind / 14 - 18 /
Watts Bob  - dms  - The Elements
Watts Malcolm - Stringbeats / Echo Four
Watson Mike  - bs  - Jimmy Clifford and the Presidents
Washington Johnny -  Vocs - The Vampires
Wells Johnny  - vocs -  The Mad Classix
John Wes  - bs  - Nightease
Westacott John -  bs / harmonica  - Whistler / Last Fair Deal / Zoastra / The Urge
Wheatley Norman  - singer songwriter / folk producer
Whitcher Pip (Phillip) -  guit / vocs  - Renegade / Sorrows / Rog and Pip / The Zips

White Bubs - Guit - Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band / Quiet Riot (later resident in Cov) 

White Tony - Guit - L'Homme de Terre
Whittle barry  - Ld guit  - Eyes of Blue
Whittle Brian  - Carol and the Electrons / Ld guit  -Ultrasound / Uncle Sam
Wilkins Brian  - vocs guit  - George and the Dragon
Wilkinson Paul -  Dms  - Cure and the Peeps (pepys) / Flying Machine / Sabres / Rainbows
Willett Ed -  bs  - The Establishment

Williams Adam - Bs - Selecter
Williams Colin  - guit / vocs  - From the Sun / Indian Summer / Soul Sect
Williams John  - ld guit  - The Young Ones
Williams Johnny  - sax  - The Chads / The Mad Classix
Williams Paul  - guit  - Ray King Soul Band / Pact
Williams Roger  - bs  -  The Elements

Williams Steve - Dms - Human Cabbages

Williams Tig - Primitives
Williamson Roger  - Guit Vocs  - / Solo / East Light
Williams Virginia  - vocs  - Renegades
Wilson Derek  - Guit / Vocs -  3AM (1966 /67) Ning (70)
Wilson John - guit, bs, vocs - Dodgers
Winters Murray  - Pretty Flamningoes

Woodcock Julian (Jud) -Guit - Vietnamese Babies
Woodward Hilda - Piano -  Lieutenant Pigeon
Woodward Rob  - Piano / Producer aka Shel Naylor The Pretty Flamingoes / Staveley Makepeace / Lieutenant Pigeon / Heavy Cochran / Rob Woodward / Bounty Hunters
Wyatt Terry  - bs / guit  - The Goodtime Losers aka The Sensations / The Sabres / The Zodiacs

X

Y
Young Bob – (Vocs / Guit / Songwriter)  -  Sweeny Todd / A Band Called George
Young Colin – bs -  Sweeny Todd / A Band Called George

Young Steve - Dms - Squad

Z
Zetterstron John  - guit  -The Challengers / The 3 Johns

THIS POST IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS AND IS A SPECIAL TYPE OF TIMELINE. It will probably be located at the bottom of the blog eventually so as not to interupt the flow of the main year to year timeline but for the moment will remain here while I'm working on it. Researching and adding in the many hits of Pete Waterman and SAW as writers / producers will be a task in itself! If any one thinks any artists / songs should be added or not included let me know. This covers Coventry and surrounding area eg Rugby, Nuneaton, Bedworth, Warwick, Leamington Spa. Some bands may have members in from other towns. Frank Ifield was Coventry born but also a big star in Australia.

Main source Guniness British Hit Singles based on NME in the 50's and Record Retailer / Music Week from 1960 - the hits produced by Stock Aitkin and Waterman were found on THIS SITE and cross checked with the British Hit Singles Book)

Record Retailer was the industry standard. Pete Chamber also kindly provided lists and I've consulted the Stock Aitkin and Waterman site for lists of their singles and song written and produced and cross referenced them with British Hit Singles. my copy of Hit Singles only goes up to the early 90's, will update when I get a more up to date issue.

1959

ARTIST                          SONG                          HIGHEST POSITION              WEEKS ON CHART

Bert Weedon                Guitar Boogie Shuffle                    10                              9 wks

Bert Weedon                Nashville Boogie                           29                              2 wks

 

(Note - Bert Weedon is not strictly a Coventry artist but lived in Coventry (Allesley Village) in the 60's for a while and interacted with some of the Coventry musicians)

 

1960

Frank Ifield                 Lucky Devil                                    22                           7 wks

Frank Ifield                 Got to Get a Date                           49                           1 wks 

Bert Weedon              Big Beat Boogie                             37                            4 wks

Bert Weedon              Twelfth Street Rag                          47                            2 wks

Bert Weedon               Apache                                         24                            4 wks

Bert Weedon              Sorry Robbie                                  28                            11 wks

 

1961

Bert Weedon             Ginchy                                           35                                5 wks

Bert Weedon             Mr Guitar                                        47                                1 wk

 

1962

Frank Ifield               I Remember You                             1                                  28 wks

Frank Ifield               Lovesick Blues                                1                                  17 wks

Frank Ifield               She Taught me to Yodel (B side)      16                                  5 wks

Vince Hill                  The River's Run Dry                         41                                  2 wks

Brian Locking, bass player with the Shadows after Jet Harrison left in Spring 1962, until Nov 1963, was born in Bedworth Nr Coventry).

Shadows                 Guitar Tango                                     4

Shadows                 Dance on                                          1 

 

1963

Frank Ifield                Nobody's Darlin' but Mine                 4                                 16 wks

Frank Ifield                Confessin'                                       1                                 16 wks

Frank Ifield                Mule Train                                       22                                6 wks

Shadows                   Foot Tapper                                     1

Shadows                   Atlantis                                           2

Shadows                   Geronimo                                        11                                

Cliff Richard and the Shadows            Bachelor Boy        4

Cliff Richard and the Shadows            Summer Holiday    1 

1964

Frank Ifield               Don't Blame Me                               8                                   13 wks

Frank Ifield               Angry at the Old Oak Tree                25                                  8 wks

Frank Ifield               I Should Care                                  33                                   3 wks

Frank Ifield               Summer is Over                              25                                   25 wks

Mighty Avengers       So Much Love                                 46                                   2 wks

 

1965

Frank Ifield              Paradise                                         26                                   9 wks

The Fortunes           You've Got Your Troubles                 2                                     14 wks

The Fortunes            Here it Comes Again                       4                                      14 wks

The Sorrows            Take a Heart                                 21                                     8 wks

 

 

1966

Vince Hill                 Take me to Your Heart Again          13                                     11 wks

Vince Hill                  Heartaches                                    28                                     5 wks

Vince Hill                  Merci Cheri                                    36                                      6 wks

Frank Ifield               No One Will Ever Know                   25                                      4 wks

Frank Ifield               Call Her Your Sweetheart                 24                                     11 wks

Pinkerton's Assorted Colours  Mirror Mirror                       9                                      11 wks

Pinkerton's Assorted Colours  Don't Stop Lovin' Me Baby  50                                     1 wk

The Overlanders (Billy Myers)   Michelle                            1                                     10 wks

The Fortunes                  This Golden Ring                        15                                     9 wks

 

1967

Frank Ifield                Call Her Your Sweetheart                 20                                       4 wks

Vince Hill                   Edelweiss                                       2                                        17 wks

Vince Hill                   Roses of Picardy                             13                                       11 wks

Vince Hill                   Love Letters in the Sand                   23                                       9 wks 

 

1968

Vince Hill                   Importance of Your Love                  32                                       12 wks

Gun                           Race With the Devil                         8                                         11 wks

Cupid's Inspiration    Yesterday Has Gone                        4                                         11 wks

Cupid's Inspiration     My World                                       33                                        8 wks

(Race with the Devil was produced by Coventry's Johnny B Goodison)

 

1969 

Vince Hill                   Little Blue Bird                               42                                        1 wk

Vince Hill                   Does Anybody Know My Name        50                                         1 wk

Fairport Convention   Si Tu Dois Patir                             21   (Dave Swarbrick played on this - now lives in Cov and played in WhipperSnapper with Dando Shaft's Martin Jenkins) 

 

1970  

Don Fardon                Belfast Boy                                   32                                          5 wks

Don Fardon                Indian Reservation                          3                                           17 wks

Edgar Broughton Band   Out Demons Out                       39                                           5 wks

Brotherhood of Man      United we Stand                         10

Brotherhood of Man       Where are You Going My Love    22

(Note this was the first line up of Brotherhood of man featuring Coventry's Johnny Goodison who co-wrote these songs under the name of Peter Simons) He didn't feature in the later band that produced Save all Your Kisses).  

1971

Fortunes                        Freedom Come Frredom Go         6                                            17 wks

Vince Hill                       Look Around                              12                                           16 wks

Edgar Broughton Band  Apache Dropout                         33                                          5 wks 

 

1972  

Fortunes                       Storm in a Teacup                       7                                             11 wks

Lieutenant Pigeon        Mouldy Old Dough                       1                                             19 wks

Lieutenant Pigeon        Desparate Dan                            17                                           17 wks

Chuck Berry                  My Ding A Ling                             1                                            17 wks

(My Ding a Ling was recorded live in Coventry as part of the Lanchester Polytechnic Arts Festival 1972)

 

1973

Lieutenant Pigeon       Despate Dan                       Carried over for 5 weeks

 

1974

Peter Shelley              Gee Baby                                 4                                                  10 wks

(Not a Coventry artist (Alvin Stardust's producer) but Pete Waterman's first tip for the top as a new Magnet A & R)

 

1975

Jigsaw                          Sky High                                9                                                     11 wks

Jigsaw                          Fly Robin Fly                           28                                                    8 wks

Bay City Rollers            Give a Little Love                     1                                                      9 wks

(Not a Cov band but the song was written by Coventry's Johnny B Goodison)

14-18                              Goodbyee                              33                                                     4 wks

(This is Pete Waterman in disguise)

The following are the results of Pete Waterman's A & R work for Magnet

Susan Cadogan              Hurt So Good                          4                                                     12 wks

Susan Cadogan              Love Me Baby                         22                                                     7 wks

Stephenson's Rocket (Cov Band) Alright Baby                37                                                      5 wks

Silver Convention           Save Me                                 30                                                      7 wks

Peter Shelley                  Love Me Love My Dog              3                                                       10 wks

 

1976

None Known at this stage

1977

Jigsaw                            If I have to Go Away               36                                                        5 wks

1978

Chris Rea                        Fool if You Think It's Over      30                                                         7 wks

(Pete Waterman played a role in getting the Middlesbrough born Chris Rea started)

1979

Sniff and the Tears        Drivers Seat                            42                                                         5 wks

(Sniff and the Tears featured Coventry's Loz Netto and Ron Lawrence on lead and bass)

The Selecter                  On My Radio                            8                                                          9 wks

(Also Produced by Coventry's Roger Lomas)

The Specials                  Gangsters / bw The Selecter      6                                                          12 wks

The Specials                   A Message to You Rudy / Nite Club    10                                               14 wks

 

1980

The Specials                 The Special AKA Live EP                1                                                      10 wks

The Specials                 Rat Race / Rude Boys Out of Jail     5                                                        9 wks

The Specials                 Stereotypes / International Jet Set    6                                                        8 wks

The Specials                 Do Nothing / Maggie's Farm             4                                                       11 wk

 

The Selecter                 Three Minute Hero                          16                                                      6 wks

The Selecter                 Missing Words                               23                                                      8 wks

The Selecter                 The Whisper                                  36                                                      5 wks

(First two Selecter tracks produced by Roger Lomas)

Hazel O''Connor             Eighth Day                                    5                                                        11 wks

Hazel O'Connor              Give Me An Inch                           41                                                        4 wks

                                                                                                                                                          

1981

Hazel O'Connor             D Days                                         5                                                          9 wks

Hazel O'Connor             Will You                                       8                                                         10 wks

Hazel O'Connor             (Cover Plus) We're All Grown Up     41                                                         6 wks

Hazel O'Connor             Hanging Around                            45                                                         3 wks

The Specials                 Ghost Town                                  1                                                          14 wks

The Fun Boy Three       The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum    20                                         12 wks

 

1982

The Special AKA          The Boiler                                    35                                                          5 wks

Hazel O'Connor            Calls the Tune                              60                                                          3 wks

Fun Boy Three             It Ain't What You Do, it's the Way that You Do it    4                                     10 wks

Fun Boy Three            He Was Really Saying Something / The Telephone Rings  5                           10wks 

Fun Boy Three             Summertime                                  17                                                         9 wks

Musical Youth              Pass the Dutchie                            1                                                          13 wks

(A Pete Waterman Production)

 

1983

Fun Boy Three            The More I See (The Less I Believe)    68                                                     1 wk

Fun Boy Three            Tunnel of Love                                   10                                                     10 wks

Fun Boy Three            Our Lips Are Sealed                            7                                                      10 wks

The Special AKA         Racist Friend                                     60                                                    3 wks

 

1984

J.B. Allstars                Backfield Motions                               48                                                      4 wks

(John Bradbury of the Specials)

Colourfield                 The Colourfield                                   43                                                      4 wks

Colourfield                 Take                                                 70                                                       1 wk

The Special AKA        Nelson Mandela                                  9                                                        10 wks

The Special AKA        What I Like Most About You is Your Girlfriend  51                                           4 wks

 

The Following are Stock Aitken and Waterman Productions

Dead Or Alive             You Spin Me Around                           1                                                   23 wk                

Nik Kershaw                Wouldn't it Be Nice                            4                                                    14 wks

Hazel Dean                  Whatever I Do, Where Ever I Go        4                                                    11 wks 

Hazel Dean                  Back in My Arms Again                    41                                                   4 wks

Divine                          You Think You're a Man                   16                                                   10 wks

Divine                           I'm So Beautiful                               52                                                    2 wks

Agents Arn't Aeroplanes  Upstroke                                      82

 

1985

King                             Love and Pride                                 2                                                    14 wks 

King                             Won't You Hold My Hand Now           24                                                   8 wks

King                             Alone Without You                           8                                                     9 wks

King                             The Taste of Your Tears                  11                                                    9 wks

 

Colourfield                      Thinking of You                            12                                                   10 wks

Colourfield                      Castles in the Air                           51                                                  3 wks

 

The Following are Stock Aitkin and Waterman productions 

Dead or Alive                     In Too Deep                                  14                                          8 wks

Dead or Alive                     Lover Come Back to Me                 11                                          8 wks

Dead or Alive                     My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me)         23                                         6 wks

Princess                             Say I'm Your No One                       7                                          12 wks

Princess                             After the Love Has Gone                 28                                         13 wks

Hazel Dean                         No Fool (For Love)                         41                                         5 wks

Hazel Dean                     They Say it's Gonna Rain                   58                                         4 wks

Haywoode                          Getting Closer                             67                                           2wks 

Three Degrees                   The Heaven I Need                       42                                          5 wks

Brilliant                              It's a Man's World                         58                                          5 wks                       

 

  (As the formating on this page is going a bit strange i will continue from 1986 in a separate post - Part Two!) 

 

Continued from Pt 1.

1986

King                         Torture                                              23           4 wks

Hits Produced by Stock Aitkin and Waterman -

Brilliant                      Love is War                                       64            4 wks

Brilliant                      Somebody                                         67            4 wks

Haywoode                  You'd Better Not Fool Around              82

Princess                    I'll Keep on Loving You                       16             8 wks

Princess                    Tell Me Tommorow                             34             5 wks

Princess                     In the Heat of a Passionate Moment   74             1 wk 

Bananarama               Venue                                               8              13 wks

Banarama                  More Than Physical                            41              5 wks

O 'Chi Brown              100% Pure Pain                                 97

Paul Fearon                I Can Prove It                                    8                9 wks

Paul Fearon                Ain't Nothin But a House Party            60              2 wks

Mondo Kane                New York Afternoon                           70              2 wks

Dead or Alive               Brand New Lover                                31              4 wks

Mel and Kim                Showing Out (Get Fresh at..                3              19 wks

 

1987

Paul King                    I Know                                               59              5 wks

Coventry Cup Final Squad    Go For It                                    61               2 wks

 

(The following are hits produced by Stock Aitkin and Waterman)

Rick Astley                  Never Gonna Give You Up                 1                 18 wks

Rick Astley                   Whenever You Need Somebody        3                 12 wks

Rick Astley                   When I Fall In Love / My Arms Keep Missing You   2   10 wks 

Bananarama                  I Heard a Rumour                            14                 9 wks

Bananarama                  Love in the First Degree                    3                  12 wks

Mel and Kim                  Respectable                                     1                  15 wks

Mel and Kim                  FLM                                                 7                  10 wks

Dead or Alive                 Something in My House                    12                  7 wks

Dead or Alive                 Hooked on Love                               69                  2 wks

Pepsie and Shirley         Heartache                                         2                   12 wks

Mandy                           I Just Can't Wait                               91

Ferry Aid                       Let it Be                                            1                    7 wks

Debbie Harry                 In Love with Love                               45                   5 wks

Carol Hitchcock             Get Ready                                        56                   5 wks

Samantha Fox               Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now            8                     9 wks 

Sinitta                           Toy Boy                                            4                    14 wks

Sinitta                            GTO                                               15                    9 wks

Stock Aitkin and Waterman    Roadblock                               13                    9 wks

Stock Aitkin and Waterman     Packjammed with..                  41                    6 wks

Laura Branigan                    Shattered Glass                          82

Edwin Starr                          Whatever Make Our Love Grow    98

Steve Walsh                        Let's Get Together Tonight          74

 

1988

All About Eve                        Wild Hearted Woman                33                      4 wks

All About Eve                         Every Angel                             30                      5 wks

All About Eve                         Martha's Harbour                      10                      10 wks

All About Eve                         What Kind of a Fool                  24                      24 wks

 

T'Pau                                    Valantine                                   9                       8 wks

T'Pau                                     Sex Talk (Live)                          23                     7 wks

T'Pau                                      I Will Be With You                    14                     6 wks

T'Pau                                     Secret Garden                           18                     7 Wks

T'Pau                                      Road To Our Dream                  42                     6 wks

 

Primitives                                Crash                                      5                        10 wks

Primitives                                Out of Reach                           25                       4 wks

Primitives                                 Way Behind Me                      36                        4 wks

(Produced by Paul Sampson or Reluctant Stereotypes)

 

(The Following are Stock Aitkin and Waterman Productions)

Rick Astley                               Together Forever                   2                          9 wks

Rick Astley                                She Wants to Dance With Me  6                       10 wks

Rick Astley                                Take Me To Your Heart    8                              10 wks

Bananarama                               I Can't Help It                 20                              6 wks

Bananarama                               I Want You Back            5                               10 wks

Bananarama                               Love, Truth, Honesty       23                              8 wks

Bananarama                               Nathan Jones                 15                              9 wks

Mel and Kim                               That's the Way it is          10                              7 wks

Jackson Five                               I Want You Back (Remix)  8                             9 wks

Stock Aitkin and Waterman          SS Paparazzi                   68                            2 wks

Brother Beyond                            The Harder I Try                2                              14 wks

Brother Beyond                            He Ain't No Competition      6                             10 wks

Sigue Sigue Sputnik                      Success                             31                         3 wks

Sabrina                                         All of Me (Boy oh Boy)         25                         7 wks

English Football Team                    All the Way                         64                        2 wks 

Mick and Pat                                 Let's All Chant / On the Night  11

Hazell Dean                                   Who's Leaving Who               4                        11 wks

Hazell Dean                                   Maybe We Should Call it a Day     15                6 wks

Hazell Dean                                   Turn it into Love                       21                    7 wks

Sinitta                                            Cross My Broken Heart           6                       9 wks

Sinitta                                             I Don't Believe in Miriclas        22                     8 wks

Kylie Minogue                                   I Should Be So Lucky            1                      16 wks

Kylie Minogue                                   Got To Be Certain                  2                      12 wks

Kylie Minogue                                   The Locomotion                     2                      11 wks

Kylie Minogue                                    Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi       2                      13 wks

Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan          Especially For You                1                      14 wks

Jason Donovan                                   Nothing Can Divide Us          5                      12 wks

 

1989

T'Pau                                                Only the Loved                       28                     6 wks

Primitives                                           Sick of It                               24                     4 wks

Primitives                                           Secrets                                 49                    3 wks

 

(The Following are Stock Aitkin and Waterman productions)

Cliff Richard                                     I Just Don't Have the Heart         3                      8 wks

Reynold Girls                                   I'd Rather Jack                          8                     12 wks

Various                                            Ferry Cross the Mersey             1                     7 wks

Band Aid 11                                     Do They Know It's Christmas      1                     6 wks

Jason Donavan                                 When You Come Back to Me      2                     2 wks

Jason Donavan                                  Too Many Broken Hearts           1                     13 wks

Jason Donavan                                  Sealed with a Kiss                    1                     10 wks 

Jason Donovan                                  Everyday I Love You More          2                      9 wks

Kylie Minogue                                   Hand on Your Heart                   1                      11 wks 

Kylie Minogue                                   Wouldn't Change a Thing            2                      9 wks

Kylie Minogue                                   Never Too Late                           4                     10 wks

Samantha Fox                                   I Only Want to be with You        16                     8 wks

Bananarama                                      Help                                         3                      9 wks

Donna Summer                                  This Time I Know It's For Real    3                      14 wks

Donna Summer                                   I Don't Want to Get Hurt            7                      9 wks

Donna Summer                                   Love's About to Change My Heart 20                  6 wks

Donna Summer                                   When Love Takes Over You       72                    1 wk

Pat and Mick                                       I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet    4

Sonia                                                  You'll Never Stop Loving Me        1                    13 wks

Sonia                                                   Can't Forget You                       17                   6 wks

Sonia                                                   Listen To Your Heart                  10                  10 wks

Big Fun                                                Blame it on the Boogie                4                   11 wks

Big Fun                                                Can't Shake the Feeling              8                    9 wks  

 

1990

All About Eve                                        Scarlet                                      34                   2 wks

Terry, Blair and Anouchka (Terry Hall)      Missing                                     75

 

(The Following are Stock Aitkin and Waterman Productions)

Kylie Minogue                                        Tears on My Pillow                     1                      8 wks

Kylie Minogue                                         Better the Devil You Know         2                      2 wks

Kylie Minogue                                         Step Back in Time                    4                      8 wks

Lonnie Gordon                                        Happenin' All Over  Again          4                      10 wks 

Lonnie Gordon                                        Beyond Your Wildest Dreams    48                     2 wks

Loniie Gordon                                         If I Have to Stand Alone            68                     1 wk

Kakko                                                   We should be Dancing             101                                  

Big Fun                                                 Handful of Promises                  21                      6 wks 

Big Fun                                                 Hey There Lonely Girl                62                      1 wk

Jason Donovan                                      Hang on to Your Love                 8                       7 wks

Jason Donovan                                      Another Night                           18                       5 wks

Jason Donovan                                      Rhythm of the Rain                    9                        6 wks

Jason Donovan                                      I'm Doin Fine                            22                       6 wks

Sonia                                                    Counting Every Minute              16                        7 wks

Sonia  & Big Fun                                    You've Gotta Friend                  14                       6 wks

Sonia                                                     End of the World                     18                        7 wks

Pat and Mick                                          Use it Up and Wear it Out        22                        6 wks

Romi and Jazz                                        One Love, One World              98                                 

Yell                                                         One Thing Leads to Another    81                                 

Grand Plaz                                               Wow Wow, Na Na                  41                        4 wks

Sybil                                                        Make it Easy On Me              99                                  

La Mood                                                   Ole Ole Ole                          78                                   

Errol Brown                                               Send a Prayer to Heaven       78                                   

Delage                                                     Rock the Boat                       63                                    

            

1991

Frank Ifield                                              The Yodelling Song                40                      4 wks

Primitives                                                 You Are the Way                   58                      2 wks

T'Pau                                                       Whenever You Need Me         16                      6 wks

T'Pau                                                       Walk on Air                           62                      2 wks

 

(The following are hits by Stock Aitkin and Waterman)

 

Donna Summer                                         Breakaway (Remix)                49                       4 wks

Kylie Minogue                                            What Do I Have to Do            6                         8 wks

Kylie Minogue                                            Shocked (DNA Mix)               6                         7 wks

Kylie Minogue                                            Word is Out                         16                        5 wks

Kylie Minogue & Keith Washington              If You Were with Me Now       4                         7 wks

Kylie Minogue (Vision Masters)                   Keep on Pumpin' It               49                        1 wk

Hazell Dean                                              Better Off Without You         72                        1wk                               

Pat & Mick                                               Give Me Some                     53                              

Pat & Mick                                               The Concrete Megamix         91                                

Jason Donovan                                          R.S.V.P                             17                        5 wks

Jason Donovan                                          Happy Together                  10                         6 wks

Stock Aitkin & Waterman Feat. Einstein      Roadblock  91                   100                                

The Twins                                                  All Mixed Up                       77                                  

Boy Crazy                                                  That's What Love Can Do    86                                  

Paul Varney                                                So Proud of You                105                                  

Delage                                                       Running Back for More       153                                  

Cool Nights                                                 Make this a Soecial Night    86                                  

 Malcolm McLaren & Alison Limerick            Magic's Back                      42

2 Unlimited                                                 Get Ready for This               2 

 

1992

All About Eve                                             Phased (EP)                       38                       2 wks

All About Eve                                             Some Finer Day                  57                       1 wk 

Vegas (Dave Stewart with Terry Hall)            Possessed                         32

Vegas                                                        She                                   43

Vegas                                                        Walk into the Wind             65

Spiritualized                                                Anyway You Want Me        75

Spiritualized                                                Medication                         55  

 Hits of Stock Aitkin and Waterman

Kylie Minogue                                             Give Me Just a Little More Time  2                  8 wks

Kylie Minogue                                              Finer Feelings                     11                      6 wks

Kylie Monogue                                             What Kind of Fool                14                      5 wks

Nancy Davies                                               If You Belonged to Me          86 or 89                        

Nancy Davies                                               Higher and Higher                136 or 95                     

Pat & Mick                                                  Shake Your Groove Thing       80                                

Bananarama                                                Movin' On                              24                    5 wks

Bananarama                                                Last Thing On My Mind           71                   2 wks

The Fat Slags                                              Summer Holiday                     78                              

Slam Jam- WWF                                         Superstars                              4                               

Boy Crazy                                                   All I Have to Do                        91 or 98  

Opus 111                                                     It's A Fine Day                        5                   8 wks

Undercover                                                   Baker St.                                2                   14 wks

Undercover                                                   Never Let Her Slip Away           5

2 Unlimited                                                   Twilight Zone                           2

2 Unlimited                                                   Workaholic                              4

2 Unlimited                                                   The Magic Friend                      11      

                  

 

1993

West End (Feat. Sybil)                                The Love I Lost                         3                  

 2 Unlimited                                                No Limit                                   1                   16 wks

Bananarama                                               More More More                        24                           

Sybil                                                          When I'm Good and Ready         5                               

Sybil                                                          Beyond Your Wildest Dreams     41                             

Sybil                                                          Stronger Together                      41

Boy Krazy                                                  That's What Love Can Do           80                           

Key West                                                    Looks Like I'm in Love Again     46

Bill Tarmey                                                  One Voice                               16

Superstars                                                   Wrestlemania                          14

Pat and Mick                                                Hot Hot Hot                             47

Slamm                                                         Energize                                 57

Slamm                                                         Virginia Plain                           60

Suzzette Charles                                          Feel Free to Love Again           58

Undercover                                                   I Wanna Stay With You           28

2 Unlimited                                                   No Limit                                  1

 

1994

Terry Hall                                                Forever J                                    67

Terry Hall                                                Sense                                        54

Lightening Seeds (Co written by Terry Hall)  Lucky                                      43 (Charted again in 95)

1995

Terry Hall (With Damon Albarn)                Rainbow EP                                62

Lightening Seeds (Co written with Terry Hall) Lucky                                     15

Spiritualized                                             Let it Flow                                  30

 

1996

Catalonia                                                 You've Got a Lot to Answer For   35 (Produced By Paul Sampson?)

Manchester United FA Cup Squad              Move Move Move (The Red Tribe)   6 (Pete Waterman Production)

Kaleef                                                       Golden Brown                              22 (Pete Waterman Production)

1997

Steps                                                       5-6-7-8                                       14

Terry Hall                                                  Ballad of a Landlord                     50

Spiritualized                                              Electricity                                   32

Stereo Nation                                            I've Been Waiting                         55

Catalonia                                                  I Am The Mob                              40 (Produced by Paul Sampson)

  

1998

(Steps were produced by Pete Waterman)

Steps                                                       Last Thing on My Mind                  6

Steps                                                       One for Sorrow                              2

Steps                                                       Heartbeat / Tragedy                       1

Tina Cousins                                             Pray                                             20 (Pete Waterman Prodcuction?)

Kaleef                                                       Sands of Time                               26      "

Will Mellor                                                 When I Need You                          5         "

Will Mellor                                                 No Matter What I Do                      23       "

Billie Myers                                               Kiss the Rain                                4

Billie Myers                                               Tell Me                                         28

Spiritualized                                               I Think I'm in Love                         27

Spiritualized                                               The Abbey Road EP                     39

Catalonia                                                   Mulder and Scully                         3  (produced by Paul Samson?)

Catalonia                                                   Road Rage                                   5        "

Catalonia                                                   Strange Glue                                11       "

Catalonia                                                   Game On                                     33   

1999

Steps                                                       Better Best Forgotten                     2

Steps/ Tina Cousins / B'Witched /

Cleopatra / Billie                                       Thank Abba For the Music               4

Steps                                                       Love's Gotta Hold on My Heart        2

Steps                                                       After the Love has Gone                 5

Steps                                                       Say You'll Be Mine / Better the Devil You Know  4

Tina Cousins                                             Killin Time                                          15 (Produced Pete Waterman?)

Westlife                                                    I Have a Dream / Season's in the Sun  1 (Produced by Pete Waterman)

Catalonia                                                  Dead From the Waste Down            7 (Produced by Paul Samson?)

Catalonia                                                  Londinium                                      20 ( " )

Catalonia                                                  Karaoke Queen                               36  ( " )

 

2000

Steps                                                       Deeper Shade of Blue                     4

Steps                                                       When I Said Goodbye / Summer Love 5

Steps                                                       Stomp                                           1

2001

Steps                                                       It's the Way You Make Me Feel / Too Busy Thinking 'bout My Baby 2

Steps                                                       Here and Now / You'll Be Sorry        4

Steps                                                       Chain Reaction / One for the Sorrow (Remix) 2

Steps                                                       Words are Not Enough / I Know Him So Well 5

Spiritualized                                              Stop Your Crying              18

Stereo Nation                                            Leila                                 44

Catalonia                                                   Stone by Stone                 19 (produced by Paul Sampson?)

2002

Spiritualized                                              Do it All Over Again            31

2003

Spiritualized                                              She Kissed Me (It felt Like a Hit)  38

Punjabi MC                                               Mundian to Bach Ke                8

Pubjabi MC                                               Jogi                                        30

2004

2005

2006

2007

Enemy                                                     Away From Here      8

Enemy                                                     Had Enough             4

Enemy                                                     You're Not Alone      18

Enemy                                                     We'll Live and Die in These Towns 21

2008

 

 

 

 

(To be Continued...)   

                                              

 

 

Benchmark - 1962 saw the Consecration of the the New Cathedral in Coventry with the Queen in attendance. Coventry schools turned out for it (I know I was with the Willenhall Wood school group). There is footage of the consecration and the helicopter fitting the spire on Dean Nelson's site Here.

The average chord sequence in the early sixties was C Am F G (until the Beatles broke the mold) and the most innovative record in the charts in 1962  was Telstar - the first pop record to use a moog synthesizer. Nonetheless it was based on the above chord sequence.

1962 saw the Beatles enter the charts for the first time briefly with Love Me Do. Frank Ifield would put Coventry (and Australia) at the top of the UK charts this year.

Coventry guitarist once tuned John Lennon's Rickenbacker guitar for him at theMatrix Ballroom November 1962.

Known Bands that formed in 1962

The MATADORS 62 / 67 Beat group (actually from Hinkley but played in Coventry) with Hary Heppinstall on drums. In 1964 they signed with Joe Meek as recording manager and cut a number of sides with him. Their first single was leased by Meek to Columbia in 1965 and local sales proved healthy. They released a second single, but dissaffection was setting in with Meek's techniques and they shopped around for another recording manager, and both Tony Hatch and Andrew Loog Oldham both showed interest around May 1966. By 1967 they were being courted by Polydor, but as the label had a low profile in the UK then,but they never released any singles. They became Magazine in 1967 with the addition of a brass section. Single:

As 'The Four Matadors'

A: A Man's Gotta Stand Tall/ B:Fast Cars And Money (Columbia DB7806 1966

Sources Broadgate Gnome / Godiva Rides P46 / P60 / Godiva Rocked to a Backbeat P21

RANGERS (early 60's - not sure what year) Shakin' All Over was one of their best Numbers.

Source Broadgate Gnome 

THE STORMBREAKERS / THE ESTABLISHMENT

Formed 1962 - got to support Screaming Lord Sutch, The Hollies, The Undertakers, Emily Ford and the Checkmates and the Pretty Things.

More - Godiva Rocked to a Backbeat P 26 / Broadgate Gnome  

 

THE VENDOR TWINS

Formed 1962 . More in Godiva Rocked to a Backbeat p 35

 

Coventry in the Charts

1962  was a good year for Coventry in the UK charts thanks to Frank Ifield who spent 13 weeks at the top of the charts.

Frank Ifield - I Remember you - Reached No 1 (8 wks at the top) and on the chart for 28 wks (US No 5)

 

                   - Lovesick Blues - No 1 (5 wks at the top) on the charts for 17 wks (US No 44)

Also on the NME charts She Taught me to Yodel  No16 for 5 wks

B side of Lovesick Blues

 

 

 

 

 

Vince Hill - The River's Run Dry No 41  and 2 wks on the chart. (No 25 in the NME charts for 3 wks)

It would be 1966 before Vince Hill returned to the charts.

Post created 1st July 2008

Updated 2nd July 08

Benchmark

During the 1950's the bombed heart of Coventry had been reconstructed and Phoenix like a brand new city centre had

 arisen by 1960. As both Pete Waterman had expressed in his autobiography I Wish I was Me (see the 1950's post) and Trev Teasdel in his Coventry Tale (growing up in the 1950's ) (again linked on the the 1950's post) it both felt and looked new, and generated a feeling of new potential that was a general feeling throughout the 1960's. Coventry's reconstruction embodied that feeling  'anything's possible' and 'reconciliation' interfaced with the optimism and innovations in the wider culture. It was an exciting decade although no one in 1960 would know what would develop during the decade. It was to be a good decade for Coventry music. The other side of the coin was that the optimism was forged against a backdrop of widespread nuclear testing, growing concern over the environment, the Vietnam war, Civil rights campaigns, troubles in Northern Ireland, built in obsolescence and the development of a 'throwaway' culture and alienation in affluent society, Harold Wilson's 'squeeze', political scandels, assassination (Kennedy, Martin Luther King) and more. As far as music was concern, all this would be reflected in the music as the decade rode on and a growing feeling that young people were going to change the world, establish an alternative society.

However in 1960, mainstream music was fairly innocuous, soft rock had replaced the hard rock of Elvis and Bill Haley - even Cliff Richard and Elvis toned down the music, extending their range and widening their audience. There was an undertow of cool jazz reflected in songs like Fever and in charting bands like Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball etc. Even Elvis had a rasping sax on his first post army album - Elvis is back. Jazz proliferated in Coventry - the Tiara Buana Jazz Band for example. Jazz was top of the list at the Coventry Arts Umbrella Club and the Umbrella would launch the cities first folk club in this decade. On the other hand, in Liverpool a new force was beign marshalled with the Beatles and other of the later beat groups and in New York a young Bobby Dylan was honing his protest songs.  What was underground in the early 60's would soon be in the mainstream by the mid 60's. A new generation was emerging that grew intolerant of war, exploitation, pollution etc. The Coventry music scene emerged in this context with a growing sense of ideology being interlinked. That's not to say there weren't a lot of bands who's perpectives were purely commercial, but as the decade moved on, the feeling of being part of a growing alternative society began to permeate the music and the music began to influence the fans.

But this was 1960 and all that was to come -

COVENTRY MUSIC 1960 - 1961

THE CHUCKLES - Formed in Nuneaton 1960, they became the backing band for the legendary Gene Vincent. Two were apprentices at Roots Motor Company. 

(See Pete Chambers Godiva Rocked to a Backbeat P9)

THE SABRES - Formed in 1960. became the Peeps in 1965.

See Page 32 of Godiva Rocked to a Backbeat and P70 in Godiva Rocks and Broadgate Gnome A to Z 

COVENTRY IN THE CHARTS

Frank Ifield - The Coventry born Australian singer who had lived in Coventry until he was 9 had his first hit in 1960. He would make a real impact on the UK charts until 1962.

Lucky Devil - Frank Ifield reached No22 spending 7 weeks on the chart with one re-entry.

 

Got to Get a Date - Frank Ifield reached No 49 spending 1 week on the chart.

Frank had been a recording star in Australian, starting out at the age of 13. He was keen to break into the UK market and would do so in a big way in 1962. For more on Frank Ifield see Godiva Rides by Pete Chambers P37 and P44 of Godiva Rides to a Backbeat.

 

 

Bert Weedon - 1960 

Not a Coventry born artist but one who lived in Coventry part time (in Allesley Village) during the 1960's, had further hits with -

Big Beat Boogie - reached No 37 and was on the charts for 4 weeks

Twelfth Street Rag - reached No 47 - 2 weeks on the chart.

Apache - reached No 24 - on chart 4 weeks

Sorry Robbie - No 28 - in chart 11 weeks

 

Bert Weedon - 1961

Ginchy -  No 35 - 5 wks in chart.

Mr Guitar - No 47 - 1 wk in chart

 

  

 

 

 

Created June 26th 2008

Updated -  July 2nd

Note - Only a few entries so far for the 1950's - so I've put it all on page.

 

BENCHMARKS -  Birth of Rock n Roll

Dec 18th 1954 Bill Haley and the Comments debuted the UK NME singles charts with Shake Rattle and Roll  at No

13 - being the first Rock n Roll disc to make the UK charts. it reached No 4 (No 7 in USA) and stayed in the charts 14 weeks. It was followed closely by Rock Around the Clock which spent two weeks on the chart initially in Jan 1955 reaching No 17 - returning more forcefully in Oct 1955 for 17 weeks reaching No 1 UK (USA No 1). The single took off as a result of the song being featured in the film Blackboard Jungle ( focussing on delinquency in an American schoolresulting in the first Rock n Roll riots in the UK with some of its Teddy Boy audience jiving in the aisles and ripping up the cinema seats. Elvis had began recording for the Sun Label

 in Memphis and charting on the Country and R & B charts in the States during  1954 / 55. On the 5th May 1956 Elvis Presley entered the UK NME charts with the RCA Victor hit Heartbreak Hotel, reaching No2 (No 1 USA) and followed closely by Blue Suede Shoes. In January 1956 Lonnie Donagan had already entered the NME singles chart with Rock Island Line kick starting the UK Skiffle movement. Less than 15 years before Bill Haley's debut, Coventry city centre had been raised to the ground by Hitlers crew and a new city centre was rapidly emerging during  the 1950's. Despite it all Coventry was still a thriving Car manufacturing city with a strong shop steward movement and many of the city's baby boomers would be toting guitars in the decades to come and creating a new strand to the city's long and interesting history. That of the post war Coventry music scene.

Broadgate Gnome have pointed out the importance of the M45 / M1 link between Coventry and London for access to gigs and visiting bands. The M45 / M1 were opened November 1959. The motorway cafes were also imporatant social meeting places and hang outs for travelling bands.

Some great 50's Coventry You Tube on Dean Nelson's site

 

A Coventry Tale - links to Trevors Stream of Conciousness article about growing up in Coventry in the 50's 

Quote from Pete Waterman's book I Wish I was Me

"Every Tuesday I'd go there (to see his cousin Jean (16) in 1956 - she had a wind up Gramaphone) with my mum on

 the No 7 bus and walk across the bombed city centre to listen to Jean play

 these great records. Coventry was still makeshift with a wooden Woolworths and seven-odd bombed buildings in every street but there was  still a sense of it being the first of the brand new cities, of everything starting again...and of course there was poverty but you just accepted it. We never had enough money to last the week, so my mum didn't put the electricity on until my dad got off the bus"

"It was such a great time to be growing up in. Immediately after the war, things were tough, but it was all so exciting. And everything was still forming; the world seemed to be coming together. There was a kind of openness about everything"

The Coventry Arts Umbrella Club 

was important to the musical developments in Coventry, through Jazz in the 50's and early 60's, to hosting Coventry 's

 first Folk club in the early 60's to being rehearsal room, hang out and venue for many a band in the late 60's and early 70's, including early days Two Tone musicians Neol Davies and John Bradbury at it's later HQ in Queen Victoria Rd. The Umbrella moved in the 70's to the Charterhouse and I believe it's still going in some form but more as a arts club now.

THe Umbrella club was opened in Little Park St. in 1955 by Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe who were appearing with the Goons in Coventry at the time.

 Umbrella magazine also published an article by Phillip Larkin. There is a lot of material on the Hobo site and in Coventry archives relating to the Coventry Arts Umbrella Club 

Here's a link to articles on the Umbrella in the 1950's on Hobo -  

Coventry Arts Umbrella   Phillip Larkin in Umbrella Magazine

More post on the Umbrella club on the Hobo site and photos and more material in the Coventry Archives.

Coventry Bands and Artists in the 1950's

VIN LLOYD AND HIS MOUNTIES 

According to Pete Chambers (Page 120  - in his book - Godiva Rocks) they were Coventry's "first big pop group. A nine piece skiffle band who met at The Coventry Technical College and all came from Wyken. Auditioned on ITA for The Carroll Lewis show, supported the Kirchins on a tour of Scotland. see Godiva Rocks for more.

The CHALLENGERS 57 / 65 Leamington based Skiffle Group. Formed during the Skiffle boom. Lead Vocalist Woody Allen joined The Three John.

Sources Broadgate Gnome and Godiva Rocks P 50. Godiva Rocked to A Backbeat p39 

                      

 1959 - The ZODIACS 

Formed.  Recorded 4 tracks at Midland Sound Recorders,  According to Godiva Rocks the band's drummer was Nigel Lomas (older brother of Roger Lomas). To be featured along side the Exhibition's 30th Celebration of Two Tone prior to hte opening of the Coventry Music Exhibition in 2009. They will be celebrating 50 years (and still together!!). They appeared on New Faces in 1977 singing the Steve Jones and Rod Bainbridge song Last Night we Called it a Day. Two of them joined the Sabres and Nigel Lomas has been in a string of bands.

 Sources - Broadgate Gnome but not much more info I'm afraid and P36 in Pete Chamber's Godiva Rocked to a Backbeat and p 44 in Godiva Rocks).

 The VAMPIRES 

Influential Rock n Roll Band in the area, one of the first formed in 1959 fronted by Vince Martin (later Holliday) and Johnny Washington (formerly Hounslow). Headlined at Nuneaton's Co-op Hall and their support band was The Beatles!!  Despite that they never cut a disc and Vince went on to form form an Entertainment Agency - Big Three Enterprises - later JRD Entertainment booking Cilla Black, Shane Fenton, Lulu and local bands like the Sorrows.

Sources  p 108 of Godiva Rocks & Godiva Rocked to a Backbeat books p45 by Pete Chambers

THE CHADS

A Birmingham band formed from the Sundowners in the late 50's but who played tons of gigs in Coventry. Mick Adkins was replaced in 1965 by Jeff Lynne before he went on to form Idle Race. (See Broadgate Gnome and Godiva Rocks)

REG DIXON - Coventry born comedy act and Dame. Sang a song Send me to Coventry (My Home Town). His self-penned theme tune Confidentiality (1949) was a No 2 Sheet music hit of the time and was also recorded by the Beverley Sissters, Max Bygraves, Danney Kaye,  Geraldo and his orchestra. He also had a hit with Ordinary People. More on Reg Dixon can be found in Godiva Rocks p22.

 

CHRIS COWLING TRIO -

Not sure when they formed actually but in the late sixties Chris Cowling playing boogie piano 50's style with his trio at the Coventry Arts Umbrella. During the 60's Chris organised Jazz and music sessions at the Umbrella. I got the impression that they started out in the late 50's but I can't be sure. A little bit more about them on the Hobo site both under Coventry Arts Umbrella posts and a separate post about them in the Hobo Index.

DELIA DERBYSHIRE

Coventry born, she joined the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and although she didn't write it, she played and arranged the iconic Theme for Dr Who. She mixed with the most creative minds in the 60's, including Pink Floyd and John and Yoko and produced other works - eg Electrical Storm in 1969. Read more in Godiva Rides p22.

COVENTRY CHARTS

Although not actually from Coventry, Bert Weedon (famous author of the infuential Guitar tutor Play in a Day) lived in Allesley Village, Coventry in his 2nd home during the 1960's. My father serviced his vacuume cleaner and bought me my first guitar soon after at 15. Many Cov artists cite Bert Weedon as an early inspiration to pick up a guitar including Kevin Harrison. (See Pete Chamber's book Godiva Rocked to A Backbeat P35) See HOBO site Here

His first hit single was in 1959 with -

Guitar Boogie Shuffle in the charts for 9 weeks reaching No 10 in the NME charts. (Source Guiness Book of British

 Hit singles).

Nashville Boogie in the charts for 2 weeks reaching No 29 (Source as above)

Apart from that Coventry's Chart history doesn't get started until 1960 with Frank Ifield.

If anybody has more information on Coventry Music in the 1950's, please let us know so we can add it in.