Photos of the band at last

[Picker]

Thought there could be a photo somewhere ?

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[ecca]

Ah. ! The proper uns.

[iefje]

Who is Tony Locking?

[OLDEREK]

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[Jiggerz]

Reassuring about Joe Black, phew

[JimN]

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I SAW that show that week!

Jet had just left, about a fortnight earlier...


JN

[Arpeggio]

Great stuff Jim. Jet left on April 15th. Re:photo & name Tony Locking (!!) in the programme.....some of you will recall (several years ago now) that I found an interesting (thanks to typos) Shadows line up at the BBC on one of the written contracts. Hank Karvin, Bruce Welsh, Jet Harris and Tony Meechan. In the programme log ( & normally the BBC were so accurate...) "Jet Black" was listed as being composed not by Jet Harris but by A Box!!! (LOL)

Rob

[Stratpicker]

Interesting to see Frank Ifield so low down on the Bill (if its representative of Star Order).
"Probably" in 1962 I went with my Mum (well Iwas only 14 or 15) to the Palace Theatre, Oxford Street, Manchester to see them both.
AFAIK - The Shadows closed the First Half and Frank Ifield was Top Of The Bill.
Can anyone put a date to that performance please?
cheers
ian

[Arpeggio]

Frank hit it big with "I Remember You" in July, 1962. At that time didn't Cliff & the Shadows normally have a summer season residence? So (as Frank was still mighty popular and on a run of 3 #1 hits), I would guess (& it's only a guess) that the show you saw would have been sometime during September / October 1962. Over to other 'historians'.

Bests...Rob

[JimN]

Interesting to see Frank Ifield so low down on the Bill (if its representative of Star Order).

It was. Most people at the Empire Theatre would never have heard of him before. Chas McDevitt and Shirley Douglas would have been better known. I'd certainly seen them on TV, but I was completely unfamiliar with the name "Frank Ifield".

"Probably" in 1962 I went with my Mum (well I was only 14 or 15) to the Palace Theatre, Oxford Street, Manchester to see them both.
AFAIK - The Shadows closed the First Half and Frank Ifield was Top Of The Bill.
Can anyone put a date to that performance please?

Frank Ifield hadn't had a hit by April 1962, and was probably on the bill as a bit of showbiz bartering by Peter Gormley (who managed Frank as well as Cliff & The Shadows). He would not have been able to top a big variety or package tour bill until after his summer 1962 hit with I Remember You and even then, it would have taken some time to put such a package together. I don't think that Cliff or The Shadows would ever have played second billing to Frank. Not unless it was "his show" and The Shadows were special guests or some such formulation.

JN