Litherland Town Hall 1960s

[Elaine Goulding]

Nicolas, many thanks for posting. The Hillsiders were one of the very best c/w groups ever. Kenny Johnson had a really lovely voice and was legendary in Liverpool. "I've never loved anyone more" had to be my favourite song.

[Elaine Goulding]

Dan/Henry,
Sounds as though Chris Curtis was a generous person, donating his clothes to others. Wasn't he one of the first to leave the group?

[henry]

I had my photo took with their 1st gold gold record in our house but left all my photies down strand road when the houses were pulled down to make way for the New Strand and it was the worst thing the council did as all the local community was lost as well as the best shopping Strand road because you could buy anything in their shops

[Dan]

1963 Jimmy Mahar and the Senators




May 1963 Derry Wikie and the Pressmen



May 1963 Two photos of The Four Just Men

[Dan]

[Dan]

Liverpool Echo September 4 1964.






Can't understand how a band called The Tidemarks never made it.

[Eddy Lloyd]

Brilliant, had me and Ann singing all those songs

[Dan]

Brilliant, had me and Ann singing all those songs

At the Salesian, we once had an hour long lecture from Father Murphy on the disgusting lyrics of

"I'm Into Something Good". He'd play a bit of it, then explain what Herman really meant. Honest.

Just hope you and Ann have been to confession.

That'll be 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail Marys and 3 Glory Bes.

[Dan]

Found a small reference to Vikki Lane & The Moonlighters



Ted Knibbs was the manager of Billy J Kramer and The Coasters. He sold the management contract to Brian Epstein for £50.



Ian And The Zodiacs

[Eddy Lloyd]

Dan

[Elaine Goulding]

Dan, like Eddy, just love this thread, so many great memories and fantastic music

[Dan]

The other week I came across a whole edition of Melody Maker from June 7 1969.

The front page reminds me of my favourite line from Romancing The Stone.

" Awwh man. The Doobie Brothers have broken up."





I was a devotee of NME and Rolling Stone .

[Dan]

Top 30 Melody Maker June 7 1969, with apologies to Eddy Lloyd's neighbours.

[Eddy Lloyd]

Ha ha love it Dan some classics there.

[Dan]

Noticed in yesterday's obituaries, Wayne Fontana of "and The Mindbenders" fame died last Thursday.

Hits; Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um (great lyric) and The Game of Love.

He quit and walked off stage in '65 or '66. He was always being asked to sing A Groovy Kind of Love,

but The Mindbinders released that after he left.

Saw him in the Solid Sixties Show , with Marty Wilde, Joe Brown and Jess Conrad at The Empire in the early 90's.

Wayne Fontana 1945 - 2020.

[Dan]

5 pages listing the bands on Merseyside from 1959 to 1964.

[bob. b]

Litherland Town hall Eddie and his mates

[darrenadam]

I know Eddie and Allan could
You name the other two Eddie

[Eddy Lloyd]

Brian McGguirk on the left and Norman Parry

[filsgreen]

Hi Eddy. Is Brian, the brother of John Mcguirk Sr, from Cedar Street?

[darrenadam]

I thought the one on the left
Was Billy Ervine if that's the way his name is spelt

[Eddy Lloyd]

Yes Brian lived in Cedar Street and was the brother of John. John was a lovely singer. A lovely family I was always made to feel welcome and always got the offer of a cup of tea and a sandwich. Fond memories of the McGguirk family.

[94mikej]

November 30 1962 Paul Deane and The Diamonds and The Four Clefs plus a bit on John Gorman and Roger McGough.

Where can I find these articles? Are they in a library?

[Dan]

Mike

Bootle Times/Crosby Herald/Southport Visitor can be found, on microfilm, at Crosby Library.

Unfortunately, at present, there's no access to the microfilm catalogue due to covid restrictions.

No idea when they will be available.

[Dan]

Some Mersey Sound cd back covers.

Merseybeat at The Rialto 1963.




Merseybeat The Story of the 60's.

[Dan]

1961. Billy Fury silver disc for Halfway To Paradise.

[Dan]

July 1963 The Defenders




1963 Merseybeat Boat




August 1964 Amos Bunny and the T.T.'s




1964 The Kirkbys




November 1964 Cavern Merseybeats on stage.

[Elaine Goulding]

Dan, don't remember "Amos Bunny and the T.T.'s"!!!

[Dan]

Earl Preston and some fans at Litherland Town Hall



The Hoedowners in 1969

[Shelagh]

A great time in history, loved the merseybeat day’s, wonderful nostalgia, thanks Dan

[Dan]

Very disappointed Shelagh.

I thought you were going to own up to being the girl with the beehive hairdo in the Earl Preston photo.

Reading it back, I realise 'The Girl with the Beehive Hairdo' would have made a great Stieg Larsson novel.

Two disappointments to start the day. Things can only get better.

[Dan]

The Censors.

[Dan]

December 27 1960. Litherland Town Hall.

[Dan]

One of my older brother's membership cards.



The Grave Jazz Club, Tempest Hey, off Tithebarn Street just after The Railway pub.

[94mikej]

The Censors.

Does anyone know who these guys were? I've been trying to find out about them for a long time