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Post by williammcgregor on Sept 25, 2021 10:21:34 GMT
Hi Adam, I've been through the entire NME from 1965 and no sign of any mention of (Words and Music) or (The Modelles) so the search continues ...
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Post by ajsmith on Sept 25, 2021 15:15:20 GMT
Hi Adam, I've been through the entire NME from 1965 and no sign of any menmtion of (Words and Music) or (The Modelles) so the search continues ... Thanks William. Good luck!
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Sept 25, 2021 20:15:18 GMT
BBC KEEN ABOUT WEST BROADCAST AN invited audience of about 120 were present when the Sandy West Jazzmen recorded their first broadcast for BBC in the Beechgrove Studios. Aberdeen. The broadcast takes the air to-morrow night at 6.30 in the Scottish Home Service. Sandy and the boys are playing In the popular "Come Thursday" series - a series which at one time was planned to be aired until the end of this year but which has done so well that a threemonth extension has been arranged—will reach a larger listening audience than ever before. Also taking part in the programme was a part of the Alex Sutherland band from Elgin. Alex and the section of his band used for the programme were providing the backings for singer Celia Nicholls, call on Vic Canale, who will be a regular member of the band. Here Is the Stephen line-up: Vic Canale itrumpet'. Gordon Urquhart (trombone'. Jimmy Philip (tenor'. Dave Milne • baritone and alto*. Johnny Brechin (guitar'. Jim Kellas • piano and arrangements). Neil Simpson (drums', lan Stephen (bass'. AJy Soutar will also play piano when Jim Kellas working on new arrangements. A word about Jim Kell&s. He is a university lecturer and is an amateur arranger of the highest standard. He has submitted arrangements to John Dankworth and some of them have been used by the Dankworth band, which is itself a recommendation. Jazz fans who have heard the very fine Sutherland band in action will be disappointed that the band was not programmed plav jazz in "Come Thursday" but the producer of the programme. Ben Lyons, heard the Sutherland band at the Jazz Workshop after work on the recording was completed. So there may yet be a chance for Alex and the lads from Elgin to blow the kind of music they like best on the radio. I hope so. The nearest Alex. Sutherland and the band get jazz when they plav their version of "Desafinado." Sandy West kicks-off in the programme with a swing. The second number from the Aberdeen band brings Stan Burnett to the microphone with vocal. “Rosetta.” Then the West band plays on Sunday.” The closlm? number of the programme also comes from Sandy West’s Jazzmen. It "Wait till the sun shines, Nelly.” High
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Sept 25, 2021 20:16:48 GMT
Snoopets Glasgow group, Pinky and the Perks will broadcast for the first time in Come Thursday " in the Scottish Home Service next week. Also appearine are Gill Stuart and the Quintones. S •
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Sept 25, 2021 20:22:53 GMT
Dean and the Gaylords go South OFF to London last night went Scotland's top pop grasp Mae Ford and The Gaykmds who were spotlighted on Scene" recently after an appearance la Wahavv. The lads were voted the country's best in a popularity poll organised by "Beat Scene" magazine in the Locarno Ballroom, Glasgow recently. As a result they received a cup to mark the distinction. Other news from the lads is that the group has changed its bass guitarist. They have been joined by Graham Knight. aged 21. who was with the Glasgow Vampires for four years. Dean and The Gaylord' could have been heard on 8.8. C. radio's " Come Thursday** last night. During their five day stay in London they will appear in cabaret shows, and, in addition, are hoping to make several television appearances. 1
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Sept 25, 2021 20:24:08 GMT
Crusaders on the Air The Go'den Crusaders from Bathgate. and Glawow " popsinger Mary Sinclair. will appear in "Come Thursday " at 6.35 p.m. on Thueeday. March 5. in the Scottish Home Service.
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Sept 25, 2021 20:25:26 GMT
HOT FROM SCOTLAND: by John G. Temple WHEN I spoke to him last week, Scots actor John Fraser was full of enthusiasm for the fashions of Carnaby Street. And to back up his words, he was wearing some very natty "gear." One of the stars of "Strike A Light," which had its world premiere at the Alhambra, Glasgow, last Thursday, John also raved about the show-business scene in London. "It's all happening down there just now," he says. "Life is very exciting." "/*ET well soon" to Grace Clark of the Clark and Murray comedy team Gracie went through a major abdominal operation in a Glasgow hospital last week. When she's fit enough to leave hospital, she plans to recuperate at the bungalow at Ayr she and husband Colin recently bought. DECENTLY singer Valerie Mitchell came north of the border to do a "Come Thursday" radio show. Next week she's back in Glasgow -m cabaret. Valerie sings the theme song of the soon-to;be-released film "The Windmill Girls." And I hear she's been booked for T.V. "Big Night Outs" from Blackpool in the summer. \7AL DOONICAN, who comes to tile Pavilion, Glasgow, for a week on April 25, gives the credit for his relaxed manner to early experience in shows in Scotland. As one of a singing group called lite Ramblers, Val often found himself called upon to join in the comics' sketches. "That taught me to be easy with people on stage." he says. "And on T.V. it's still easy." Joining Val in his Pavilion show are Irish comedian Harry Bailey, Bobby Jean and the Scots Boys. ONE-LINERS: Colin Stuart sporting a new wilb-it haircut and 9ngm£ better than ever at the Gaiety Theatre. Ayr odelling-guitartst Mai Hol lander (he's funny too!) brightest spot in "A Toast ot the Tartan" at Glasgow Pavilion dancer David Ellon set for London, after his Metro pole season, in a bid to break into musicals ski ing enthusiast Pamela Bcesley, of the "Strike A Light" company, looking forward to testing brr skill on the Scottish slopes a one-night stand fnr Donald Peers, last week, at Glasgow's Ashfield Club.
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Sept 25, 2021 20:26:24 GMT
HOT FROM SCOTLAND By Gordon Irving LIVE theatre thrives at New Year! Even if summer and spring-time doldrums come, the festive business is brisk. I'm convinced the cycle will move full circle soon, and people will get around more to live snows in clubs (there's a growing number in Scotland), hotel cabaret... (JIS zooming! anu revue tneuires. More live theatres in country towns are a trend. Pity civic author ities, who really know so little about show bi/, can'l be persuaded to take advice from professionals 'like Jack Short, Ross Bowie, l ex Mc- 1 can, Jimmy Logan and many more! Full marks, too, to types like ihe BBC's Kddie I'raser. Ben l.yons and lain MacF'ayden, and to Francis Essex at STV, for encouraging home talent. Especially to Ben Lyons, whose Boxing Day radio show was an entertaining amalgam of talent and show-biz personalities. He should follow-up "Come Thursday" with a "Come Tuesday," giving Scots a twice-a-weck lunch pro gramme. At Ayr "The Jack Milroy Show is oil to a bright start. Jennifer Shaw, from Aberdeen, is singing in this one. And business was never brisker than for "The World of Jamie" at Glasgow King's. Man chester and Newcastle must see this one after Edinburgh. THE chap who gol the really big break on Hogmanay was tenor Grant Frazer, of Penicuik, near Edinburgh. Cabaret and radio, and producers like Ben Lyons, have already given Grant early airings. Now a whole nation looked-in on his talents in the first show of 1969. Al 26 Grant is on ihe way to good fortune. He used to sing with the Kay Gordon Singers. Now, like Helen McArthur (who starts her Radio 2 scries on January 9), he's getting the chances at last. AS I said in my Radio 2 Clubland chat on Monday, Irish-Scots man Glen Daly has signed an amaz ing contract to appear for the nexi ten years at the flourishing Ashlield Club in ihe north of Glasgow. Nice trip ahead for Glasgow's l.ex McLean. He's off this month to do a Burns Week series of appear ances in Toronto, Canada. Also Canada-bound, this Spring: Jack Milroy and Caluni Kennedy, heading an Andy Stewart-sponsored tour through North America. Ronnie Coburn's "A Breath of Scotland," into its fifth year, will break new ground in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa in 1969 Alec Flnlay stars in this happy team. V[OW enjoying January audiences in South Africa is Andy Stewart. He's out for six weeks, with a two-weeks' further option, playing Johannesburg, Cape Town. Port Elizabeth, East London, Bloemfontein. Pretoria and Durban. Andy flies back for Spring shows at home, a summer run at Blackpool. More overseas news: Allan Bruce, the Scots singer, now based on Montreal, has formed his own pub lishing company, is writing his own songs. JOHNNIE RAY. the "Cry" man, J will fill cabaret spot at the new Bruce Hotel in East Kilbride, near Glasgow, week of February 17. At ihis night-spot, this New Year's Week, is ihe Bobby Colgan Scottish Show, followed by Valerie Masters, folk-singers Lyn and Graham McCarthy, and, at rhe end of the month, singer Peter Malan. Ray Kllington is booked for February 10, week of Glasgow's Theatrical Ball (February 13). Another night-spot offering useful work is Caesar's Restaurant in the former Piccadilly Club in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street. Diners are enter tained to a late-night 90-minutc stage show. ON the sun-baked southern coast of Europe, recently, I welcomed Lex McLean, his wife Grace, singer- personality girl Margo Bentlev and ner fiance, to my sixth-floor apart ment in rhe lovely fishing-village and resort of Fuengirola. Lex was out on a fortnight's vacation prior to taping his new BBC-tv series I drove him up to the mountain village of Mijas, where we met Hymie Frutin, of the Glasgow theatre family; Hymie runs a cafe- bar there, as well as dry-cleaning shops in Torrcmolinos. THIS'N'THAT: Fay I.enore into pantomime at Wolverhampton The Rockin' Berries are a hit in Glasgow Pavilion panto, where Johnnie Beattie is again the quip- master Tom and Jack Alexander launched their new LP. "Tom and Jack's Sing-In," at a party in Glas gow while agent Ross Bowie was vacationing in Gibraltar The two lilting lads will be in Aberdeen for summer, wilh Johnnie Beattie Howard and Wyndham's Peter Donald tells me we'll see a succes sion of "Five-Past Eight" editions at Ihe still-open Alhambra, Glasgow, in the summer Scots singer Fay Fenton having success on tour of South Africa and the Zambia copper-belt I shivered in a city theatre the other night when the management opened the doors five minuics before curtain-fall and ten minutes before the mass of patrons left the building!
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Sept 25, 2021 20:27:03 GMT
HOT FROM SCOTLAND By Gordon Irving IF proof were needed that variety is Mill wanted, take the "Star- lime" show that opened al the Alhambra, Glasgow, on Monday. It was originally scheduled for three weeks. Now, because of demand at the box-office, it's to stay for four. Which is tribute, surely, to the... ing power of The Seekers, lhal refreshing Australian act, and comedian Norman Vaughan, and the Strong variety support. 1 hear there s strong advance interest in "The Frankic Vaughan Show" at Glasgow Alhambra, open ing for the season on December 15. A speciality in il will be the Three Bizzarros, in addition lo the Clark Brothers and the clever balancing Baranton Sisters. SCOTS magician John Shearer has been flourishing in the clubs in the Manchester area. He has also played, in Scotland, the Dunblane Hydro, the As'hneld Club in Glasgow, and the Jewel Club in Edinburgh. He is entertaining in Christmas week at Kilmacolm Hydro, doubling odd nights Tit Dun blane. Then, after a week at the new ski-ing centre at Av icmore, he's off again to Burnley, Blackburn and Bolton. "I'd love to do a winter season at home in Glasgow," says John, "but the managements seem to have little interest in employing magicians in this type of show. A pity, because it's noimally liked by young and old." pOMEDIAN Chic Murray, of Edinburgh, is planning a trip to America and the Far East in February. Many people in Scotland wonder what Chic does with his time. What they don't realise is lhat he is constantly on the move, play ing clubs and cabarets all over the country. He is a special favourite in the Midlands and North of Englund. ON the move, next year, will be that bright musical act. Joe Gordon and Sally I.ogan. Now with "The Andy Stewart Show," they go off to Turkey on an interesting tour. They arc building themselves up into one of Scotland's most "exportable" acts. Wisely, too. Producer Ben Lyons, of the BBC in Glasgow, brings a real show- business touch to the content of his "Come Thursday" radio pro gramme. On the show last week was a chap billed as "Donald Mac- Chanter." He turned out to be Jack Short, 71-year-old tioupcr, manag ing-director of the Glasgow Metropole, father of Jimmy I.ogan, and singer of a couple of bright numbers on the programme. Thai's show-business. Now he's fixed up an acting role in "The Revenue Men." IT was a shock for his many friends in Scotland to hear the news of the sudden death in Belgium of Fred Gilhuys, husband of cabaret star Anni Anderson. Fred was killed in a car accident in Wuust- vte/el on October 30. II was only a few weeks ago thai he was with Anni in Glasgow, where she was such a favourite she would have been back for the Christmas season. The sympathy of their many friends in the entertainment profession will go out to Anni in her sad and so-sudden loss. THIS'NTHAT: Dave Allen had a highly successful week at the Piccadilly Club, Glasgow, playing to sell-out business Song-und-dance man John Begg, Ayr-born, joins the "Hi-Deedle-Doddlc pantomime, starring Johnnie Beattie, at Glasgow Pavilion Andy Stewart plays Ayr over Christmas Interesting things brewing for Scots folk-singer Bemadette Also for singer l.inda Flavell, now in London Will the Alexander Brothers and Johnnie Beattie star at Edinburgh King's next summer? Jimmy Logan flew in at the week-end after a tour of North America.
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Sept 25, 2021 20:27:54 GMT
HOT from SCOTLANT Gordon living reports When Summer gets mixed up with Winter-Time! ON Saturday Britain's longest-running summer show has its last night at the little Gaiety in Ayr--and I really mean "SUMMER" show! Checking back on my diary, I find I saw the first night on June 4. That means the Popplewells' production will have run for 24 weeks, twice-nightly, when it reaches its final curtain this week-end. The principal comedian, ebullient Johnnie Beattie, has become so popular at the Clyde coast theatre that he has just been re-booked for his fifth season next summer. Nice going! Another Johnnie, this time Mr. Victory, follows him in as comedian for the winter sea son next month. Incidentally, soubrette Anne Fields is having to miss the last week of her summer season at Ayr because, tonight she'll be appearing in the first night of the winter show at the New Metropole, Glasgow. Alice Dale (Stanley Baxter's sister) is taking her place for the last programme. Who says show-business is dead when summer shows are still run ning when winter shows begin THE lure of live months spent at home next summer was too much for the Scots musical act, Mai Hollander and Esther Hart. The Glasgow songs and comedy duo have signed for next year's "Lex McLean Show" at the Glasgow Pavilion. They've just finished a successful variety date at Brighton, and are getting ready for their part in the Glasgow Empire pantomime. Then follows a Spring season at the Ayr Gaiety before going straight into the McLean- show. SWINGING singer Dinah Kaye (Wasn't she garbed in too tight- fitting a gown at Glasgow Empire last week?) Is rapidly establishing herself as one of the busiest girl vocalists in Britain. She recently flew back to London after a successful week of concerts, TV and radio shows in Poland, and found a string of new engage ments awaiting her. In Glasgow she did a spot on Ben Lyons* popular radio show "Come Thursday", and left for a week of cabaret in Sheffield. rvESPlTE the fact that the whole 1' show around him has almost completely changed over. I see that Vic Chester is still holding sway as singer host at London's Latin Quarter. Vic learned much of his trade in the Scottish wee halls, and is married to former Alec Fiji lay comedy woman. Aileen O'Gorman. Duncan Macrae is starring for BBC tv in "Johnnie Jouk the Gibbet", with Angus Lcnnie as the Town Clerk. QUOTES I LIKE: "The trouble is that most Scots still mistrust the theatre, and think of actors as good for nothing else layabouts, shaggy-haired louts, or duffle-coated pimps This is very unfortunate, and so unfair to the decent, striv ing. over worked, under used actor." John Cairney. Scottish actor. "I loved working in the Scottish theatre, but it's really a very small world up there." Bill Simpson, TV's Dr. Alan Finlay. "I would be prepared to spend £500 a week on acts for a Glasgow night-club so that the standard would compare favourably with the bet on TV." Reo Slakis. Glasgow restaurateur. TVULPIECE: Comedian Billy Crotchet and singer Sydney Devine were lunching in an Edin burgh hotel with some friends last week. With the meal over, the bold Billy and Sydney took the bait offered by their friends, and put on an impromptu lunchtime cabaret act for the benefit of the dozen or so diners. From the empty little handstand in a near-deserted room, the two fugitives from Robert Wilson's White Heather Club held sway for a quarter of an hour. The patter, songs and dance came to a close when the manager bore down on them. A rebuke? Not on your life. The manager enjoyed this strange audition, and promptly booked the pair for a cabaret stint the following week (Gordon Irving' s address The Viewer, Theatre Royal. Glasgow. Tel: Glasgow DOUglas 9999, Ext. 33}). Mrs. Shufflewick (Rex Jameson) and Elizabeth Hill at the Windmill.
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Post by Thomas Walsh on Sept 25, 2021 23:37:35 GMT
Can you explain your post in more detail?
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