7 - Episode 7 – Some Other Guys

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7 - Episode 7 – Some Other Guys

Episode 7 – Some Other Guys The previous episode was about the hit-makers and this one looks at successful bands who didn’t quite make it, sometimes because there were gremlins with the personnel. The raucous Big Three were belligerent and regarded commercial success as a sign of weakness. The Undertakers were too eccentric and certainly smuggling Monopoly money into East Germany to promote ‘If You Don’t Come Back’ was a lunatic idea, though it did bring them front-page publicity if not a hit single. Rory Storm and the Hurricanes should never have attempted a singalong version of ‘America’ from West Side Story even though it was produced by Brian Epstein. On the other hand, the Chants were unlucky to miss out on their doo-wop revival of ‘I Could write a Book’. The TTs found chart success but only by backing Eden Kane. There is a demo of ‘Back Again To Me’, an original song by Earl Preston and the TTs which was never released. It sounds like a checklist of Merseybeat ingredients.

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