Formed around 1960, they got first recording contract in 1963.
In their best years 63-65 they released 5 albums, and had 10 Top 20 Hits.
Harmonie beat with a 12 string guitar, which influenced the US band BYRDS, they where one of the best
and most successful bands in the beat boom years. They didn't write too many songs on their own,
that was the bringdown in the next years.
Live always amazing, they had a comeback with 2 great LPs in the beginning of the 80s,
but sorry some years later they split in two different bands, working in the cabaret-club scene.
Style: Harmonie Beat
see:
Rory Storm & The Hurricanes ; Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers ; Roundabout (=Deep Purple) ;
Tony Jackson & The Vibrations ;
Musicians:
Mike Pender - lead guitar, vocals; John McNally - rhythm guitar, vocals;
Tony Jackson - bass, vocals; Frank Allen (1965) - bass; Chris Curtis - drums, vocals;
John Blunt (1966-69) - drums (on 'Second Take' LP); Billy Adamson (1969) - drums;
Tracks:
Sugar and Spice (Nightingale) Mono-Mix
Don't cha know (Box-Hall)
Some other Guy (Leiber-Stoller)
One of these Days (Hawkins-Magill)
Listen to me (Hardin-Petty)
Unhappy Girls (Wilkin-Burch)
Ain't that just like me (Carrol-Guy)
Oh my Lover (R.Mack)
Saints and Searchers (arr: Crummy-Jackson-McNally-Pender)
Cherry Stones (J.Jerome)
All my Sorrows (Yarborough)
Hungry for Love (Mills)
Bonus-Tracks:
C'est De Notre Age (Sugar & Spice in French)
Süss ist Sie (Sugar & Spice in German)
Ils La Chantaient Il Y A Longtemps (Saints&Searchers in French)
Saturday Night out (Richards)
Bye bye Johnny (Berry)
I don't want to go on without you (Berns-Wexler)
LP-Stereo-Mix:
Sugar and Spice (Nightingale)
Don't cha know (Box-Hall)
Some other Guy (Leiber-Stoller)
One of these Days (Hawkins-Magill)
Listen to me (Hardin-Petty)
Unhappy Girls (Wilkin-Burch)
Ain't that just like me (Carrol-Guy)
Oh my Lover (R.Mack)
Saints and Searchers (arr: Crummy-Jackson-McNally-Pender)
Cherry Stones (J.Jerome)
All my Sorrows (Yarborough)
Hungry for Love (Mills)
