7 - Episode 7 - The Dennisons

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7 - Episode 7 - The Dennisons

Part 7 – The Dennisons, repeated 30 August 1988 and repeated Wednesday Decca didn’t sign the Beatles and they didn’t really push their Merseybeat acts – the Big Three, Kingsize Taylor, Lee Curtis and the Dennisons – though they were all potential hitmakers. The Dennisons’ ‘Come On Be My Girl’ (No.46) is archetypal Merseybeat. The Dennisons were a fine band with a good lead vocalist (Eddy Parry), supported by Ray Scragg who had a feel for R&B and delivered a Joe Cocker-style vocal on ‘Walking The Dog’ (1964). They toured with Ben E. King who wrote them a song, ‘You Don’t Know What Love Is’. The Dennisons toured so much that they had a cigarette machine in their van. The drummer Clive Hornby became an actor and found fame as Jack Sugden in Emmerdale Farm. In 1983 he returned to Merseyside to sign the wall at the new Cavern. Steve McLaren became an acclaimed guitar teacher. Unreleased Merseybeat. An early demo of the Dennisons practising Joe Brown’s ‘A Picture Of You’. Unreleased. Ray Scragg with a jazzy vocal and piano on ‘Makin’ Whoopee’. On CD with OTB 0149, Part 1

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