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In 1964, the Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough, had a 20-page souvenir supplement in their Saturday night edition on March 7th which was dedicated to the bands of that era. The headline read "Fabulous focus on your local beat groups - pages and pages of pics and personalities" and all for just 4d! Some of the photographs from that supplement, and others not in the newspaper, are featured in this column. Clicking on the small images will open to a larger size.
Bart and Zorba: Zorba, on lead guitar, is Eddie Horsman and Bart is Bart Bardsley.
Barbara and the Vampires: Barbara Brown from Norton is lead vocalist, Eric Robinson from Stockton plays lead, Michael Miller Cuerden from Stockton is the drummer, Peter Anthony Meade, from Norton, played bass and the organist was Terry Owens from Stockton. See their story in the Evening Gazette.
The Steve Brown Soul Sect: Alan Murray, drums; Rob Metcalf, guitar; Tony Clements, vocalist; Dave Macnamara, bass and Steve Brown, tenor sax.
Carnaby Rags: This Hartlepool band were in operation about 1967. It shows Bill Collier the smoking bass player, Frankie Smith on drums top right, Alan Plaice on guitar bottom left and Alan Gowland on guitar bottom right.
An advertisement from the Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough on Saturday, February 24th, 1968 courtesy of Allan Rowland. The Town Hall Crypt had music from The New Elastic Band, Carnaby Rags and The Patchwork Sounds.
Count Dracula's Vampires: Geoff Phillips, Ralph Chapman on bass, George Body, Dave Usher on drums and Tommy Campbell on rhythm.
The Cyclones: Brian Humpheson on piano and vocals, Peter Mackie on bass guitar and harmonica, Cliff Thornton on drums, Graham Rayner also played bass and harmonica with Michael Wassall on rhythm.
Del & The Falcons: Peter Embleton on lead vocals, Mervyn Antony Jones on drums, Malcolm Willis on bass, Paul Butler on lead and Paul Clasper on rhythm.
Memories of Middlesbrough with Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders appearing at The Excel. This came from the Evening Gazette on Saturday, February 24th, 1968.
The Fiesta night club in Stockton in August 1967 with Lulu and Scott Walker visiting. Thanks to Allan Rowland for this.
The Fireflys: John Kelly on lead guitar and piano, Dennis Chatto on drums, his brother Colin on rhythm and harmonica with Stuart Adams on bass.
The Fremonts: Bob Gray on drums, Raymond Harris, was the lead singer, Jeffrey Gilbert Ellis played bass and mouth organ, David John Lewis was the lead guitarist and Peter John Laverick played rhythm guitar.
The band Gospel, from Hartlepool, featuring Audrey Jones on tambourine, Ian McClure on guitar, Richard Taylor on bass, Norman Watson is the drummer, Barry Picken on guitar and John Ainsley with the microphone. Gospel formed in 1964 and were based at Regent Street Baptist Church in old Hartlepool. As the name would suggest, they mainly performed at Church affiliated events and local youth clubs. They went their separate ways in 1968.
The Kellawe 5: The group had Melvyn Harland on drums, Terence Fawell on lead, Graham Downton on bass, Trevor Mossop on rhythm guitar, Frederick Horton on rhythm with Betty Wilson on vocals.
Another flyer from Mister McCoy's in Middlesbrough dated 1966. Thanks to Ready, Steady Gone for this.
The Mint: A business card from the Hartlepool Band.
The Moonbeams: Robert Dale played rhythm guitar, the drummer was John Walker, John McWilliams played lead with Raymond Buttle on bass.
A Moonbeams Fan Club card and group autographs - courtesy of Ray Walker who's in the 2008 version of The Moonbeams.
The Oddfellows: Dave Percy, rhythm guitar, Lenny Hancock, lead guitar; Dave Cox on drums with Norman 'Nobby' Clark on bass.
Dave Percy with his beloved and treasured Hofner Club 60 deluxe and, on the right, Lenny Hancock who were both members of The Oddfellows in Hartlepool during the mid 60's.
David Percy, from Newcastle, has been reminiscing about the old days and says is was a great pleasure to read about all the local groups associated with the Rainbow Coffee Bar at Seaton Carew. He says he was was attending a 60th birthday party at Raglan Quoit Club and met some old friends from those days at the Rainbow in 1964, and one of the lads showed him a print-out of The Plainsmen which he found very interesting, and recognised George Hart playing lead guitar with that band. He says: "I saw most of the local groups at the Rainbow such as the Haft'a Darks, Evergreens, and many whose names I cannot remember - but we had some marvellous times there. "I was then nearly 21 years old and had played guitar for a while but was a bit lacking in musical knowledge. "Then I was introduced to Lenny Hancock, who was then, to me anyway, a brilliant singer and lead guitarist. "He was forming a group called the Oddfellows, and enrolled me as rhythm guitar player. "On the drums was Dave Cox, who's brother Barry you have mentioned a few times as he played drums in a few bands. Norman 'Nobby' Clark was on bass guitar. "We got a set list together, and dear old Ken Tyzack gave us a try at the Rainbow a few times. We were, however, just beginners compared to the likes of the Haft'a Darks. "I bought a lovely Hofner Club 60 deluxe, which was my pride and joy - and my playing improved vastly thanks to dear old Lenny".
In February 1964 the Evening Gazette in Middlebrough ran a "Rhythm Group Championship" with more than 40 bands from the area taking part. The eventual winners were The Downbeats from Spennymoor, The Blue Caps from Teesside were second with The Renegades (above) from Whitby, in third place. They were John Anderson, 17, lead guitar from Whitby. Roy Jay, 17, of Whitby on drums, Ray Brown, 17, from Loftus on rhythm guitar and John Thomas, 19, from Redcar on bass. Wonder where they all are now? Photograph courtesy of the Evening Gazette.
The Satellites: Peter Cuthbert on lead guitar, Frank Garvey on bass, Billy Jarrett on rhythm guitar and vocals with drummer Ronnie Moore at the front. This photograph, which came to us from Billy Jarrett, shows The Satellites, who came from Stockton, in the 1960's.
Memories of the Sporting Club in Southbank from February 1968 with comedian Al Read topping the bill and musical entertainment from Tony Mills with his banjo, Kim and the Del Five plus Shirley and Johnny.
The Sunsets: Keith Clennet on vocals, Anthony McBeth on lead guitar, Mic Rafferty on drums, the bass player is Mike Woods, and Allen John making up the group.
The Steel Mill Blues Band: Dave Macnamara, bass; Nick Allen, drums; Neil Hunter, vocals; John 'Whoop' Watson, alto sax; Paul Deduka, tenor sax and Pete Gilgan, lead guitar.
John Watson, the former alto sax player with the Steel Mill Blues Band as he is today - a successful photographer and author. You can read John's Blues Blog here.
The Tempests: The Tempests, from Norton, was formed by Laurence Atkinson, their lead guitarist, who is pictured second from the right. This photograph was taken at the Ladle Hotel, Middlesbrough in 1963.
A dance night at Sacred Heart Hall in Middlesbrough with Tramline, The New Elastic Band and Chelfont Line. This appeared in the Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough, on Saturday, February 24th, 1968.
The Tremors: The young man on his knees, on the photo of The Tremors above, is Alex McLean who later went on to join The Fettlers. Others include Alan Naylor on rhythm guitar, Andrew Thompson on drums, Tony Atkinson on lead guitar with David Gray on bass. When Alex left the band he was replaced by Ray Harris of The Fremonts.
The Wheel: Chris Wilson, drums; Bernie Tordoff, rhythm guitarist; Dave Macnamara on bass, Tony Clements vocalist with Eddie Guy on lead guitar - who formerly worked with the Chris Rea Band.
The Whirlwinds: Stuart Bowes on piano, the saxophonist is Neil Brecken, Peter 'Pedro' Thompson on bass, Eric Gillies on lead guitar and Graham Rex on drums.
The Whirlwinds appeared on the Big Beat Show on Hartlepool promenade on July 4th, 1964.
An advertisement flyer from Redcar Jazz Club dating to 1965. I doubt the Costa Brava espresso grill is there these days!
Another flyer from Redcar Jazz Club advertising Alan Fearnley's record centre in Middlesbrough and Calypso Records in Redcar. Fearnley's shop is still there in Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough but not selling records and music.
A car sticker, from Redcar Jazz Club, which dates back to the 1960's. The Jazz Club, which was held at the Coatham Hotel, in Redcar, first opened its doors on January 7th, 1962 with entertainment from Mike Peters and the Florida Jazzband and Johnny Silvo and closed on October 8th, 1972 following the appearance of Lindisfarne. Other major names to appear here included Cream on January 14th, 1968; The Who on July 27th, 1969; Deep Purple on September 21st, 1969; Fleetwood Mac on May 3rd, 1970; Black Sabbath May 10th, 1970; T Rex, June 14th, 1970; Genesis, July 11th 1972 and Status Quo on September 24th, 1972.
This newspaper cutting appeared in the Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough but we are not sure which year. The story is self explanatory. It came from the collection of John McCoy.
More memories thanks to this cutting from the Evening Gazette, in Middlesbrough which was sent to us by Brian Swales. The cutting is from Friday, July 12th, 1963 to advertise The Hollies & The Rolling Stones who played at The Outlook Club in Middlesbrough the following night.
Brian says he searched out this advertisement after reading Bill Wyman's book "Rolling With The Stones." In the book he states they played that night at the Alcove Club in Middlesbrough. However, there never was a club in Middlesbrough with that name, so I decided to do a little research to put the record straight.
According to John McCoy he says "The Alcove was the name I gave to the club in the basement of The Outlook". So Bill Wyman's book is correct.
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Various Bands from the 60's
This page is dedicated to the bands 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.
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the title of this page might suggest, this section is dedicated to other bands from Hartlepool, or Teesside, of which we have just one, or maybe two, photographs. Quite naturally, if you can help us find more, then a full webpage could well be provided for them - and thank you for supporting our nostalgia pages and enjoying the sights, and sounds, of the sixties! Once in a while we do have the odd query when we ask for the name of a band member. Most times we have an answer provided. However, we are stuck on this one. Who is this band above in their smart stage uniforms? What was the year and where is the venue? Colin Burns was kind enough to send this to us but has no idea who they are. Have you? Drop us a line if you can shed some light on this mystery group. Eric Whitehouse of the Blue Caps says: "The bass player is Pete Martin. "He used to work in Burdon's Music Shop in Yarm Lane, Stockton. "He ran the Otter Hotel, near Bishop Auckland and then bought another on the Firth of Forth in Scotland." Both Eric Whitehouse and Bart Bardsley believe that Terry Russell, in the centre, could well be the lead guitarist." It has also been pointed out to us that this four-piece band is actually a five-piece. There's a keyboard player on the extreme right and almost off picture. So, the big question now is what is the name of the band?"

...and another mystery band! When we were putting together our page on The Globe Theatre, historian Barry Jones, from Stockton, came up with this photograph and wondered who they were? It appears it was taken outside the Bowes Moor Hotel one winter time. Any ideas please? Colin Draper, John Feldman and Nev Henderson believe the guy squatting may be Micky Peacock?

Another unknown band from Teesside or the surrounding area. Who might this be we ask? It came from the collection of Allen Rowland, former bass player with Derek and The Orbits. Tommy Harbron of The Zephyrs says it might be The Dominoes?

The advertisement, above, was in the Evening Gazette on March 7th, 1964. Hamiltons Music Store is long gone, but the Town Hall is still there along with the wonderful old Empire Theatre next door which still has live shows.

The band Aquarius, from Hartlepool, outside the Wesley Church when it was still a place of worship in 1970. The photograph shows Eric Best, Brian Edmenson, Barry Baker, Dave Hogbin all holding Linda Hogbin who was soon to marry Brian Edmenson who later formed a duo called Linda and Brian.
Blue Velvet at the Cenotaph, Albert Park, in Middlesbrough.
This photograph, which was taken outside the Dorman's Museum, was sent to us by former Phantoms member, Tom Ludley. Both Tom and Dave Shearer have provided the names. From left to right they are Art McDermott on vocals, Mick Griffith on bass, Kevin Ryan on drums with the late Trevor Bullock on lead guitar. Dave believes that Kevin and his brother Desi, who was a Teesside Club keyboard player, were cousins (he thinks) to Marion Ryan the singer. Dave says: "The only one I never played alongside was Kevin - all the others I have. "I played a few years with both Trevor, in a very early Gypo set up, and also Mick in a band called Harvest." Interesting to see that the representative agent on this publicity card is Slim Miller from Middlesbrough.

The Clevelanders Skiffle Group taken about 1958 with Frank Feeney on guitar, George Barker on bass, Mick McGarell on vocals, Jeff Easton playing the tea-chest bass and Barry Grimwood on guitar.

The Dominoes, from Stillington, around 1964-ish with Dennis Horton on bass, Frank Feeney with a Guild Starfire guitar, Gloria Knowles on keyboards, Lol Story on vocals, John Snowball on drums and Brian Wills on rhythm guitar. Eric Whitehouse, ex-Blue Caps, says: "John Snowball often debbed with us when Mick Kemp was ill. "Kenny Potts took over from Frank. "I think Frank only played with them for about a year or 18 months".

The Fireballs - we don't know all the names of this band so, if you know them, do drop us a line. We have George on rhythm guitar, Bart Bardsley on vocals, Terry Russell on lead guitar, Buck on bass and Alan Richardson on drums.

The Kasterways - another 60's group from the area with Mike Packham on bass, Peter Barrass on drums and Bryan Tattersall on guitar. Peter says: "This was one of the first groups I was in - from 1964 to 1966. "The founder, lead guitarist and singer was Bryan Tattersall who, I understand, came from Kenya. "His Mother was a doctor practising in Durham where Bryan was studying at the time I joined the group. "Our Bass player was Mike Packham who came from Brighton but was working has an optician in Hartlepool at the time of us getting together. "This is were I started to first work comedy into an musical act and when I changed my name from Peter Barrass to Peter de Dee. "Well Peter Dee - the small de came years later. "After we split in 1966 Mike and I formed another group from 1966 to 1968. A comedy showband called The Ballads." Bryan Tattersall lost his battle against cancer in 1975 aged just 32.

The first publicity photograph of the musical comedy act, The Ballads, who were in operation during 1966 to 1968. They were formed by Peter Barrass and Mike Packham after the trio The Kasterways disbanded. They included lead singer Newton Leith, lead guitarist and singer John Hindmarsh, Mike Packham on bass guitar, Peter Barrass on drums with organist Joe Hall. Newton, John and Joe were all from Peterlee, Peter was from Hartlepool and Mike, although from Brighton, lived and worked in Hartlepool. Peter Barrass, of course, later went on to be the stand-up comedian Peter de Dee and is still very much entertaining.

I know this is well outside our 60s format but well worth using. This is The Losers photographed in 1977 and from the collection of Ian Naisbitt. They are Tony Carrington on guitar, Dave Burton on vocals and guitar, songwriter Steve Conway on vocals, Ian Naisbitt - also known as Norman Nosebait - on drums and Mick Hutchinson on bass. This is the band that went on to win the Melody Maker Rock Contest but with Eddie Guy on guitar. They then became Chris Rea's backing band for 4 years.

Tony & The Meazzis with Tony Hext on lead vocals, Bob Ferry on rhythm guitar, Terry Edwards on lead guitar, Fred Lowther on bass and George Hine on drums. Members of the band hailed from Shotton, Peterelee and Wheatley Hill.

The Misfits from Horden, in County Durham, and taken in 1964. At the back is Barry Harbottle, then we have the singer Dave Inchcliffe, Bill Cockfield on bass, Frank Turnbull and Jim Turnbull. Brian Pounder, formerly of The Corantos, says: "The guitar Dave is holding over his head is a Guild which my father, Jack Pounder manager of The Corantos, bought from Dave. He then sold it to John Graham who played with The Legends."

This cutting came from the collection of John McCoy. It celebrated the opening of Mister McCoy's Club in Middlesbrough. As you can see, forthcoming acts included Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames, The Who, 'Little' Stevie Wonder as he was known back then, The Small Faces and The Hollies. Brain Swales, a regular visitor to our Bands' pages, tells me that the opening year was 1965.

Hartlepool band, Mint, taken in 1967 at the Marine Hotel, Seaton Carew. They are Graham Estill on bass, Barry Baker on drums, Keith Edwards on rhythm guitar and Brian Edmenson on lead guitar. The band Mint started about 1965/6 with Brierton School pals Keith Edwards - singer, rhythm guitar and songwriter - Brian Edmenson, lead and bass guitar, Barry Baker drums and Graham Estill on bass. They did all the usual venues around the town at this time such as the Catcote, Red Admiral and youth club dances as well as lots of gigs in the collieries. Graham Estill went on to join Barbara Tucker in Barbara and the Estelles. Brian Edmenson did a brief spell with George Hart in Reaction before going into 70's bands in the area and then subsequently with his wife, Linda, as a duo.

The Night Riders - Eric Boon, on the extreme left, sent this rare photograph to us from 1960. Taken at the Zetland Hotel, in Redcar, it shows Eric on rhythm guitar, Peter Dowson on lead, Mark Aynsley on vocals, Eric 'Jezz' Barker on bass and Norman Pattison, almost out of the picture, on drums. Eric has some wonderful memories about those 'good old days' he says: "I played with the Delmonts, for a short time, then I joined the Night Riders. "I often wonder where these guys, and the likes of Colin Draper and Ron Taylor, are now. "The Night Riders would play on Tuesdays and Fridays at the Zetland Hotel Redcar, and the Magnet Hotel, Grangetown with Frank Feeney's Skyliners. "We also did gigs at Redcar Pier Ballroom, the Queens Hotel in South Bank, the Linthorpe Assembly Rooms, in Middlesbrough, and Jack Marwood's Maison De Dance Ballroom, Stockton. "It was the now defunct Watkins Copy Cat Tape Echo that gave all of our groups a new and exciting sound during the 60's. "These were great times and everyone had high hopes of making it big time. "Like many of the bands we did not make any money from playing, all of our equipment was on HP we would meet members of the various bands each Saturday in Hamilton's Music Store, together with our little blue books to pay our HP Instalments - I think mine was six pound a month. "I remember once being invited by Granville Leacy's Midnighters to do a gig for them at the Jack and Jill in Middlesbrough. "I think they had doubled booked this particular night. "The Nightriders played to a "full to the brim house", the audience got carried away started dancing on the tables and chairs, trouble erupted and internal damage was done - hence we were never invited back. "I eventually left the Night Riders through parent pressure to concentrate on education and a career. "It would be great to have all these bands together again for a Teesside reunion to share our memories."

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.

Happy times in the 60's! Thanks to Hartlepool Mail's "Memory Lane" this photograph was sent to us of three happy girls at the Rainbow Coffee Bar in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool about 1963/64 time. They are Jean O'Connor, Pat Nicholson and Margaret Jeffries.

Our thanks to Ian Naisbitt for this one of The Raiders from Teesside with Ian on drums, Pete Mason on bass on the extreme left with Dick Hadfield, in the centre, on guitar and vocals. This dates to about 1965.

The Ravons pictured at the KD Club in Billingham in the 1960s. It came from the collection of Julian Rafferty, the nephew of Bob Thompson who played drums with the Phantoms. The line up on this picture is, from left to right, Brian Sewell on bass, Phil Wells on guitar, Robert "Bob” Thompson on drums and the late Brian Wheatley on lead guitar who died about 2008. The KD Club was the Kave Dwellers.
Founder member of The Ravons is Steve O'Boyle who played bass in the band and says: "I was a Buddy Holly nut which is where I got the name from. Brian Wheatley played lead (I remember when he got his Watkins Copycat), John Scaife on rhythm guitar and Dave Nicholas on drums. Our singer was John Etherington (Evers) and our first gig was St Mary's Youth Club in Norton for the princely sum of £5. In 1965 I left to go to college and, I believe, Les Bennett took my place. John Scaife left and was replaced by Phil Wells who is in this photo".
The Ravons above are not to be confused with a Hartlepool band of the same name (below) who also did the rounds in the 1960s.

The Ravons, from Hartlepool, with band members (left to right) Dave 'Griff' Griffiths on rhythm guitar and vocals, Dave Thomas on drums, Alan Webb the lead vocalist, Clive Gallagher on lead guitar and Derek Wallis on guitar. This photograph was taken at the Touchdown Hotel in West View Road. Note the Hi-Tec amplification system - also no bass guitar. Dave Griffiths, who sent us this photograph says: "Alan Webb is the brother of Marian - who was vocalist with the Comets. John Pontone being in the same band. Alan is now living in Australia, Dave Thomas lives in London. The last I heard about Shane was that he had moved to New Zealand but can't verify that unfortunately. Clive, Derek and myself are all still in Hartlepool.

This is Shane and The Ravons also at The Touchdown Hotel in Hartlepool. The line up here is Griff on bass guitar - a Rossetti Solid 7 - a "horrible beast" he says. Others on this photograph are Michael Hart, Derek Wallis on rhythm, Dave Thomas on Premier drums, Clive Gallagher on lead guitar (Vox Phantom-quite a punchy sound actually) and in front, of course, Shane doing his Elvis thing. Note the Selmer (Truvoice) amps - probably about 10 Watts each I would guess. The PA system was the pub's microphone set up. A far cry from the systems in use now - but fun days. Thanks to Dave Griffiths for the photographs and background information on the Hartlepool Ravons.

Two more items from this venue can be seen in the left hand column and our thanks to Colin Burns for the jazz club items on this page.
The Redrays at Eston & California Club with Alan Prest, Macca Booth, John Prest, Ron Taylor and Dave Skelton. Three of these young lads - Ron, Macca and John - went on to become members of The Delmonts.
The Redrays with Macca Booth, John Prest, Dave Skelton, Alan Prest and Ron Taylor who were the Talent Contest Winners at Butlins in 1958.

The Jeff Smith Show Group, from Hartlepool, with Barry Baker, Eric Best, Brian Edmenson, Eric Leighton and Mike Gorman at the front kneeling. Jeff Smith is the lady in the centre who came to Hartlepool from the United States and set up and entertainments agency in the town's Stockton Road. The photograph was taken at a night club in Surtees Street between 1969-70. The Gemini perhaps?

One from the archives dating back to 1959 and shows The Starlighters Trio with Adrian Tilbrook, aged about 13, on drums. The young man in the centre of the photograph, next to trumpeter Peter Whittet, is Barry McGurk, who later went on to become a member of the Toffees and Reaction. He now divides his time between Harperley, in County Durham, and South Africa. The Starlighters used to do all the charity shows for the lady on the right of this photograph, Evelyn Harrison, who also ran a Lonely Hearts Club in Hartlepool. The gentleman on the extreme left is Evelyn's husband Tommy. Who are the other people in this photograph? Drop us a line if you know.

A cousin of Barry McGurk found this in a pile of his old photos. It's the group The Starlights from circa 1961-ish with Barry, aged about 14, playing the piano, Adrian Tilbrook on drums, Peter Whittet is the trumpeter with Leslie Davis the vocalist. Barry says: "Leslie, I was told many years ago, died when she was 19. Perhaps someone out there might know? Peter is in Hartlepool somewhere but we lost touch over the years. He lived in the prefabs, like me in Heather Grove, beside Grayfields in Hartlepool - the prefabs are now long demolished".

The man on the drums here is Vic Creed, from Stockton. Both Vic and Adrian Tilbrook had Max Abrams, from London, as their drum teacher. Vic went on to work for Val Doonican after Adrian left. Some time later he took up flying and was reported missing over the English channel, after visiting France for a music show. Adrian, of course, was resident drummer at Titos and the Fiesta clubs in Stockton.
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