6 - Episode 6 – Scooping The Pool

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6 - Episode 6 – Scooping The Pool

Episode 6 – Scooping The Pool Away from the tension of the two previous episodes, I’m looking at the records that came out from the Liverpool bands in that surge of Merseybeat: in Episode 6 the hit-makers and in Episode 7 the also-rans. Billy J Kramer discusses his hits but he turned down ‘Yesterday’, telling McCartney that he was “tired of nicey-nicey songs and wanted a real head-banger”. Cilla defends Bobby Willis’ B-sides and Les Maguire tells how Gerry and the Pacemakers decided against ‘Hello Little Girl’ and the song went to the Fourmost. The advantage of interviewing someone in their home is that they may go off and find something – in this case, the demo of the Beatles they were given for ‘Hello Little Girl’. Gerry talks about how ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ became a Kop anthem. Following on from Cilla Black in the previous episode, Freddie Garrity says he was shocked to hear Cilla describe ‘You Were Made For Me’ as sounding more like Freda and the Dreamers. George Martin admits that Brian Epstein “brought me a lot of people I didn’t want” and Glen Campbell and George Hamilton IV sing the praises of Gerry and the Pacemakers. George said that ‘Ferry Cross The Mersey’ conjured up beautiful images of Liverpool and a ferry trip”.

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