5 - Episode 5 - The Escorts

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5 - Episode 5 - The Escorts

Part 5 – The Escorts, Tuesday 16 August 1988 and repeated Wednesday Neat tidy group, second generation if you like as they came up with the Merseybeats, having been a fan of the Beatles and Gerry and then wanting to do it themselves. They formed in 1961and they had a residency at the late night Blue Angel club. Their debut single, ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy’, had a fine backbeat, but they sounded so young. They realised the potential of a Drifters’ B-side, ‘I Don’t Want To Go On Without You’, but, unfortunately for them, so did the Moody Blues. Their manager, Jim Ireland was so pleased with their recording of ‘Come On Home To Me’ that he gave them a tenner for a meal. In 1966 Paul McCartney produced a Smokey Robinson for them, ‘From Head To Toe’, but the B-side should have been the top side, Paddy Chambers’ ‘Night Time’, a Liverpool song as strong as Curtis Mayfield’s. There is an amusing postscript as years later, Paddy Chambers was reading my book, Let’s Go Down The Cavern, and had no idea that his song had been recorded by Elvis Costello. He was able to contact the publisher and got several hundred pounds. Mike Gregory and Terry Sylvester moved to the Swinging Blue Jeans and Terry then moved onto the Hollies. Mike Gregory did session work for the Bay City Rollers: well, let’s not beat about the bush – he did it for them. Unreleased. ‘Here We Go Again’ – Paddy Chambers and Beryl Marsden, working as Sinbad. On CD with OTB 0147, Part 1. (Also on this CD at the end is a dreadful Larry Parnes protégé, Julian X with ‘Saturday Night’) On CD with OTB 0148, Part 2. (Also on this CD at the end is a dreadful Larry Parnes protégé, Julian X with ‘Saturday Night’)

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