The Swinging Blue Jeans
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| The Swinging Blue Jeans | |
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| Origin | Liverpool, England |
| Genre(s) | Beat music, pop music |
| Years active | 1960s - present |
| Label(s) | HMV |
| Website | Link |
| Members | |
| Ray Ennis | |
| Former members | |
| Ralph Ellis Norman Kuhlke Terry Sylvester Colin Manley John Ryan Bruce McCaskill Mike Gregory Mick McCann Jim Rodford Hedley Vick Les Braid |
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The Swinging Blue Jeans are a four piece 1960s British Merseybeat band, best known for their hit singles with the HMV label; the solid rock-n-roller "Hippy Hippy Shake" , the follow up, Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly", and "You're No Good", a Clint Ballard song that provided a change of pace and furnished the group's most enduring achievement. But subsequent singles released that year and the next made no impression. In 1966 their version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Don't Make Me Over" rose to thirty-first in the chart but the group never charted again.
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[edit] Career
Founded by Ray Ennis and Les Braid in 1958 as a six-man skiffle group called the Blue Genes, The Swinging Blue Jeans performed on many popular TV shows in the United Kingdom and Europe, appearing with The Beatles, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Searchers, and The Merseybeats. The Swinging Blue Jeans had the standard "Shadows" line-up of two guitars, a bass guitar and drums and achieved local fame with their appearances at the Cavern Club. They had a three year spell of success, rising and falling with Merseybeat itself. The group eventually retired to the cabaret circuit.
An album to the single Hippy Hippy Shake was released in 1964 by EMI on the HMV label. In Canada it was issued by Capitol Records (T6069) and in the U.S. on Imperial Records (LP-9261).[1] A second album "Blue Jeans Swinging" was also released.
The Swinging Blue Jeans, with some original members, continue to tour to this day.
[edit] Band members
- Ray Ennis - Vocalist / Guitarist - born Raymond Vincent Ennis, 26 May 1942, Huyton, Liverpool
- Ralph Ellis - Guitarist - born 8 March 1942, Liverpool
- Les Braid - Bassist / Keyboardist - born William Leslie Braid, 15 September 1937, West Derby Road, West Derby, Liverpool — died 31 July 2005, Fazakerley Hospital, Fazakerley, Liverpool
- Norman Kuhlke - Drummer - born 17 June 1942, Liverpool
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- Terry Sylvester - Singer, Guitarist - born 8 January 1946, Liverpool. Terry Sylvester (from [[The Escorts (Liverpool band)|The Escorts], in 1968 replacing Graham Nash in The Hollies) was not an original band member.
- Colin Manley - Guitarist - born 16 April 1942, Liverpool — died 9 April 1999 (ex-guitarist with The Remo Four)
- John Ryan - Drummer - born 5 April 1953, Pinehurst Avenue, Liverpool (ex-drummer with Liverpool Express)
- Bruce McCaskill - Guitarist / Vocalist - born 15 January 1940
- Mike Gregory - Bass guitarist - born Michael Gregory, 7 November 1946, Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Liverpool (ex-bassist with The Escorts)
- Mick McCann - Drummer - born 2 February 1949, Liverpool; occasionally deputised for Kuhlke in 1967/8
- Jim Rodford - Bassist - born James Rodford, 7 July 1941, St Albans, Hertfordshire
- Hedley Vick - Guitarist - 24 April 1953, Birkenhead, Merseyside; 1975/6 including tours of UK, Europe and New Zealand; brother of opera director Graham Vick
[edit] Discography
(UK Singles Chart details)
- "It's Too Late Now" / "Think of Me" (HMV POP 1170, 1963) - Number 30
- "Hippy Hippy Shake" / "Now I Must Go" (HMV POP 1242, December 1963) - Number 2
- "Good Golly Miss Molly" / "Shaking Feeling" (HMV POP 1273, March 1964) - Number 11
- "You're No Good" / "Don't You Worry About Me" (HMV POP 1304, May 1964) - Number 3
- "Don't Make Me Over" / "What Can I Do Today" (HMV POP 1501, January 1966) - Number 31
- "Tremblin'" / "Something's Coming Along" (with Kiki Dee, Madeline Bell), (HMV POP 1596, July 1967)
[edit] References
- ^ bsnpubs.com
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 544. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
