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Part 3 – Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes, Tuesday 2 August 1988 and repeated Wednesday It is good to have proof that Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes were the first rock and roll group on Merseyside as they made private recordings for Bernard Whitty at Lambda Records in Crosby. He was more used to recording weddings and folk groups but he did a fine job, better I would suggest that Percy Phillips with the Quarrymen in 1958 as the balance of voices on ‘In Spite Of All The Danger’ could be better. The Dominoes made their first recordings in 1957 and then they asked a butcher’s delivery boy, Teddy Taylor, to join them. The 1958 recording was cut at the pianist Sam Hardie’s house in Cambridge Avenue, Crosby when his father was out of the way. To get the balance right, Bernard recorded the group in the living room but put the drummer Dave Lovelady at the top of the stairs. Their ‘Roll Over Beethoven’ (1958) is really atmospheric. When they got to the Star-Club they backed a local singer, Audrey Arno, and they recorded with her. Some say that KST spent too long in Germany and missed out on the UK hits, but he wasn’t a poster boy. They recorded an album of contemporary hits as the Shakers which sold 30,000 in Germany. Gathering stories about KST over the years, I’m surprised that he got into so many scrapes – throwing Teds out of a window at Knotty Ash Village Hall, hanging rugby players on hooks in Southport and overturning a bar in Hamburg. Take one look at him and who would want to challenge him. Unreleased Merseybeat. ‘Roll Over Beethoven’ – Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes (1958) On CD with OTB 0145, Part 2

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