6 - Episode 6 - The Swinging Blue Jeans

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6 - Episode 6 - The Swinging Blue Jeans

Part 6 – The Swinging Blue Jeans, Tuesday 23 August 1988 and repeated Wednesday If history were different, the Swinging Blue Jeans would have been the first Merseybeat group with a recording contract, only they weren’t a beat group at the time. They had an audition at Oriole Records in 1961 and ‘Yes Sir That’s My Baby’ and ‘I’m Shy, Mary Ellen, I’m Shy’ are more in line with the Trad Jazz movement with touches of George Formby. They were booked for the Star-Club and quickly realised they had better switch to beat, coming back to England with the greatest transformation of any Liverpool group. In 1966 they wanted to switch to psychedelia but HMV said no. They cut a track independently, ‘Keep Me Warm Til The Sun Shines’, but EMI supported their producer, Wally Ridley. More fool, EMI. When the Blue Jeans returned to a hotel after a gig, they might go to the bar and even entertain the patrons. They had worked out an opening song for such performances and this closes the show. Unreleased. ‘Yes Sir That’s My Baby’ – The Swinging Blue Genes (sic) Unreleased Merseybeat. ‘Keep Me Warm Til The Sun Shines’ (Jimmy Campbell) – The Swinging Blue Jeans, produced by Paddy Chambers. Unreleased. ‘We’re Here Again’ – The Swinging Blue Jeans. On CD with OTB 0148, Part 1

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