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Post by petercheck on Apr 23, 2018 21:40:48 GMT
When The Searchers appeared on the 'Lucky Stars Anniversary Show' (200th edition) on 17-07-65 performing 'Sweets For My Sweet', apparently Tony Jackson was with them. Was this (a): a repeat of the 29-06-63 performance, or (b) a one-off reunion with TJ, almost a year after he left the band?
I've asked this question to some real experts on the group, yet none can give me a definite answer! |
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Apr 24, 2018 6:49:12 GMT
As far as is known, there were never any repeats on TYLS.
We know that a clip of the Beatles performing was used some weeks later on an ABC news show, bit apart from that I can find no reference to any contemporary repeats.
I imagine the Searchers performed their song and Tony did one of his solo items.
You can rule out the repeat of an earlier show.
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Post by petercheck on Apr 24, 2018 6:59:23 GMT
Tony Jackson isn't listed as a solo performer on this edition:
Lucky Stars Anniversary Show (5:50 - 6:30 PM - 200th Show)
Host: Jim Dale
The Beatles -- Help! Film Clip
Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen -- Samantha
The Dave Clark Five -- Glad All Over
Billy Fury -- Like I've Never Been Gone
Mike Sarne -- Come Outside
The Searchers With Tony Jackson -- Sweets For My Sweet
The Seekers -- Chilly Winds
Helen Shapiro -- Walkin' Back To Happiness
Dusty Springfield -- I Only Want To Be With You
Mark Wynter -- Shy Girl
Info from here:
www.ohboy.org.uk/thank-your-lucky-stars/index.php/episodes/summer-spin-season-3
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Post by johnpoole on Apr 24, 2018 8:23:33 GMT
Tony Jackson & the Vibrations were billed as appearing on the following week 24th July, no doubt with his latest single 'Stage Door' (released on the 16th).
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Post by petercheck on Apr 24, 2018 8:41:57 GMT
Tony Jackson & the Vibrations were billed as appearing on the following week 24th July, no doubt with his latest single 'Stage Door' (released on the 16th). Indeed (& thanks for telling me the probable song title), but this doesn't answer the question on whether he (temporarily) re-joined The Searchers.
Incidentally, a long-time fan & friend of The Searchers recently emailed the question to Frank Allen, but he uncharacteristically side-stepped the question.
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Post by williammcgregor on Apr 24, 2018 9:32:20 GMT
My hunch is that Tony Jackson did not temporarily re-join The Searchers...
The basis for my hunch is that I have looked through the NME before and after the TV show and there were two interviews with The Searchers the first on the 2nd April 1965 and the second on the 6th August 1965.
So two interviews (one pre-show) and (one post-show) ideal opportunities one would think for the question of Tony having either played on the show or going to play on the show?
But there again that's only my opinion.
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Post by johnpoole on Apr 24, 2018 9:48:46 GMT
It appeared unlikely to me but this site indicates that Tony did rejoin the Searchers for a "one-off" appearance www.myk.shuttle.de/dosandernach/tjlpn9/(actually it's a quote from the notes with the Tony Jackson Group CD "Just Like Me" issued by Strange Things in 1991) |
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Post by williammcgregor on Apr 24, 2018 10:06:46 GMT
I see what you mean John and that's great news... (but) I wonder why the NME interviewer never took the opportunity to ask the Searchers how they felt about Tony playing with them again as a one-off?
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Post by petercheck on Apr 24, 2018 16:09:31 GMT
Thank you William & John.
Does anyone here have Frank Allen's book "The Searchers and Me"? I no longer have my copy, but I seem to recall a photo of the band backstage with Tony Jackson which looks like it could be from 1965 (I remember it as they look so miserable!). Take a look if you have it.
If the reunion did happen though, it's curious that neither Frank Allen's or Mike Pender's books mention it.
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Post by Patrick Coles on Apr 25, 2018 11:55:40 GMT
The CD booklet notes by Peter Doggett to the Tony Jackson Group collection 'Watch Your Step;Complete Recordings 1964-1966' CMQCD 892 does state that Tony Jackson DID briefly rejoin The Searchers for one night only to perform 'Sweets For My Sweet' on the 200th edition of 'Thank Your Lucky Stars'
- this would be just after his single 'Stage Door' was released around July 1965 I believe
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Sept 7, 2018 18:44:42 GMT
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Sept 7, 2018 18:44:58 GMT
Solved!
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Post by petercheck on Sept 7, 2018 19:49:01 GMT
Here's a photo from the 200th anniversary show, complete with all 4 original Searchers:  |
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Sept 8, 2018 6:19:40 GMT
Looks like a superb show!
There were a series of books featuring photos of Brum and most featured one from TYLS. This was one of them.
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Post by petercheck on Sept 8, 2018 7:31:04 GMT
Looks like a superb show! There were a series of books featuring photos of Brum and most featured one from TYLS. This was one of them. It was reprinted in Mike Pender's autobiography (though oddly he doesn't mention the reunion in the text). I'd only glanced at the pics when I started this thread, not realising the significance of this one. Incidentally, Tony Jackson very nearly became a member of Mike Pender's Searchers when the group was started in 1986, and even joined them for a photoshoot (in Mike's book). Would certainly have made Mike's claim to The Searchers name more authentic if he'd stayed! |
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