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The Bands' pages are dedicated to the groups from Hartlepool and Teesside who were operating in the 1960's. If your band is not mentioned here and you'd like to be considered, send me an email with all the details. If we don't know about you, we can't mention you!
Derek & The Orbits with Charles Whyte on lead guitar, Joseph Whyte on rhythm, Allan Rowland on bass and Derek Smith on drums. Thanks to Allan Rowland for the use of this photograph.
The Orbits 40-odd years on. Thanks to this website, and Hartlepool Mail, a reunion was organised to get former band members together. They are, left to right, Alan Gowland, Charlie Whyte, Allan Rowland, Terry Metcalfe and Derek Smith who enjoyed a night of nostalgia at The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Hartlepool. Photograph © Stan Laundon.
A cartoon of Johnny Larkin, Hank Williams and Stan Laundon is featured on a new DVD which is to help boost funds for Hartlepool RNLI. The song "There's A Tear In My Beer" which was written by Hank Williams is on sale at various venues throughout Hartlepool including the Café Rappor Bar, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Fisherman's Arms, Bobby's Lifestyle Express and Krimo's Restaurants. It is priced at £3.99 for the disc in a small CD case or £4.99 for the colourful presentation box. Produced by Masspro in Hartlepool's Park Road, the DVD runs for 12 minutes and not only features Stan and Johnny performing the song but promotes Hartlepool as a tourist attraction. Click on the cartoon above to see a promotional video of the DVD.
When the Evening Gazette, in Middlesbrough, printed a story about The Zephyrs in March 2009, it certainly created a lot of interest. So much so that Paul Delplanque, who writes the "Remember When" column in the paper and has an on-line blog, has written more features based on the 'beat boom' of that era - When Teesside Really Rocked - and some wonderful articles on The Blue Caps, Barbara and the Vampires, The Condors and The Globe Theatre. Then, in April 2010 Paul wrote about some personal thoughts from Keith Roberts, of The Crestas and The Johnny Taylor Five were featured in June the same year. The School of Rock is a more recent article on The crawdaddies and Plainsmen. What are your memories of those glory days and do you have photographs that you'd like to share? You can either email me or contact Paul at the Gazette. "Remember When" is the most popular non football blog in the Trinity Mirror Group and the eighth most popular overall (out of over 500). It also attracts more readers than all the blogs on the Scottish Daily Record combined.
How it all started: For almost fourteen years I lived on the Costa Blanca in Spain. Following a visit I made to my hometown of Hartlepool in June 2004, it was suggested to me to start a web page featuring some of the old bands, or groups, that graced the pubs and clubs of the area back in the 1960's. The idea started after Billy Crallan, George Hart and Ed Saul all joined forces to play some of the old songs to help celebrate Ron Blair's 60th birthday. Billy Crallan, Ron and I played together in The Trakkers and George, of course, was the original lead guitarist of The Hartbeats. The photograph above shows George, Billy, me and Ron at Hartlepool Cricket Club. So, what started as an idea has now expanded into many pages - and is dedicated to the great bands of that era and the friendship we all enjoyed. Photograph © Marion Crallan.
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