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swingingsixties -> Music of the 1960s What a pity we we not yet born. What a time we missed for sure. (8/7/2016 5:04:20 AM)
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Yes for sure most of you were not even born then and come to think of it neither were you're parents or mine come to that. The City of Liverpool, a seaport and unique in Lancashire and distinct from Lancastrians and other Northern English Folk produced 80% of all the most popular music groups and solo singers of their time. The young folks then are dead or old folks now. The newly introduced pill for young women and sexual liberation and youthful rebellion, strange fashions, flower power, Vietnam and the rest. Far better than the roaring twenties because the workers and the young were leading the way not the middle class wealthy, lazy day, dancing folk. You could even understand the lyrics which you seldom can today if even such exist. No real talent is needed to write popular music today. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, even kinky stuff and all. Witch craft practiced, weird cults to, ask Charles Manson, he'll tell you. Were the Scouser's travelled the world did follow. 35 miles east in Manchester, other groups did follow. Success to did they have those lads from Lancashire, who like the German pied piper of Hamlein back in medievil times did play his flute and rats did follow.
t was a decade of enormous change – socially, politically and culturally.
Hemlines went up, aspirations grew and the music scene was revolutionised.
And nowhere led the charge through the 1960s more than the city of Liverpool.
Back in the 1950s a flourishing culture of groups began to emerge from the then declining skiffle scene. Influenced by American groups such as Buddy Holly and the Crickets beat bands sprang up. By the mid ‘60s it was estimated there were about 350 different bands active in the city, often playing ballrooms and clubs.
Of course the Beatles is the first name which springs to mind whenever the word ‘Merseybeat’ is mentioned but there were other big hitters like Cilla, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J Kramer and The Searchers.
And, as our first dip into the archive proves – we’ll bring you the second part of our exclusive series next week – there were a whole host other talented musicians plying their trade – Tony and the Scholars, Colonel Bagshot, The Fourmost and the Roadrunners to name just a few.
Some are still with us, others are long gone. But one thing’s for certain – their music lives on.
1. The Beatles
2. Gerry and the Pacemakers
3. The Remo Four
4. Rory Storm and the Hurricanes
5. Johnny Sandon and The Searchers
6. Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes
7. The Big Three
8. The Strangers
9. Faron & The Flamingos[19]
10. The Four Jays[20]
11. Ian and the Zodiacs[21]
12. The Undertakers
13. Earl Preston & The TTs
14. Mark Peters and the Cyclones[22]
15. Karl Terry and the Cruisers[23]
16. Derry and the Seniors
17. Steve and the Syndicate
18. Dee Fenton and the Silhouettes
19. Billy Kramer and the Dakotas
20. Dale Roberts and the Jaywalkers
21 The hollies
22.The Swinging Blue Jeans
23. The Searchers
24. The Liverbirds
25. Herman's Hermits
26. The Honeycombs
27. The Pretty Things
28.The Ivy League
29. The tornados
So many more besides.
Truly a time to remember and now a time long past.
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