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The Beatles and Mersey Beat - Internet Beatles Album  by Bill Harry, Beatles' friend and founder of Mersey Beat ... with Stu and John while they were trying to come up with a name for John's group, which Stu had now...
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50 Years Ago: Beatles Top Mersey Beat Poll Again  beatle.net  Dec 11, 2012 ... On Sunday, December 9, 1962, the group played its regular Sunday night ... They were presented an award for topping the poll by Mersey Beat publisher Bill Harry. ... What group finished second to the Beatles in the first Mersey Beat poll? ... Years Ago: Beatles First Visit to Abbey Road Studios - More (June...
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The Beatles and Southport - Ron Watson - Mersey Beat  This young group recently topped the popularity poll in Liverpool and have just cut their first ... The Southport Visitor advertisement on January 20 1962 read:
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27th January 1962 - the band played their last gig at the Aintree ...  27th January 1962 - the band played their last gig at the Aintree Institute. ... in loose change - he made sure they never played for promotor Brian Kelly again. ... Top half of U.K. Mersey Beat front page, January 1962, giving notice to the Beatles. ..... Mersey Beat publishes the results of its first group popularity poll and The...
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Beatles Top Mersey Beat Poll Again -1962 Review and Photos | The ...  Jan 4, 2016 ... 24 January 1962 Mersey Beat was a music publication in Liverpool, England in ... They also published several of Lennon's early writings, including a ... Beat held a poll to find out who was the most popular Merseyside group.
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Jeopary Questions page 812 - THE ROCKETS - TriviaBistro.com  THE BRITISH INVASION: Some pressings of this group's hit "Ferry Cross the Mersey" were printed as "Ferry Across the Mersey"  RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHY: This...
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Beatles She Loves You 45 UK 1963 Pressing Just Stunning Only 1 ...  EMI regularly stamped 'G' to represent '1' at the 9 o'clock position of the run-out .... "Sold In UK" text, as found on the March 1965 "Can't But Me Love," should be ... gone into overdrive with 1963 pressings of "She Loves You" and produced more .... during 1964 as well, in November 1963, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" had the...
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Peter Noone - Washington Post  Peter Noone was born on 5 November 1947 in Manchester. His father was a semi-pro musician and keen that his son should follow in his footsteps, ... In 1963, he joined a Manchester beat group, The Heartbeats, after their vocalist failed to show for a gig. ... Climbing to No 16, it was to be their only UK Chart album until a...
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The Four Seasons (band) - Wikipedia  The Four Seasons is an American rock and pop band that became internationally successful in ... In 1960, the group known as the Four Lovers evolved into the Four Seasons, with .... that a rock band hit #1 on the Billboard singles charts with three consecutive entries. .... The single also hit number one in the United Kingdom.
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1960s Girl Groups1958-1966 | The Pop History Dig  Jun 25, 2013 ... In 1963-64, The Chiffons put four songs on the Top 40 list, including He's So Fine ... Music Player ... During 1961-1962, four more Top Ten hits followed for the Shirelles: .... Another Marvelettes song that received some attention on the R&B ... Girl group record producer Phil Spector had his first million-dollar...
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The Beatles - Wikipedia  The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo ... In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as the .... lacking a full-time drummer they auditioned and hired Pete Best in mid-August 1960.
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Dave Clark Five - The Ed Sullivan Show  The biggest threat to The Beatles during the British Invasion was The Dave Clark Five ... their smash hit Glad All Over to American audiences on March 8th 1964. ... the UK, was the first of their 15 consecutive singles to make the U.S. Top Forty. ... Appearing a total of 12 times on the show during the height of their popularity,...
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The UK Number Ones : 1960-1964 - onlineweb.com  Week Ending, ACT + Links, TITLE, Weeks, TALLY, COMMENT.
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J! Archive - Show #5447, aired 2008-04-22  Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15): ... On Christmas Eve 1968, Borman, Lovell & Anders became the first men to circle this...
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The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd at Compass ...  May 9, 2016 ... The Roar of The Greasepaint  The Smell of the Crowd is a sui generis 1965 ... It is thought of as a British musical, but Greasepaint had been a ... as they called themselves) were coming off their huge 1962 hit Stop the World...
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Ferry Cross the Mersey - Wikipedia  Ferry Cross the Mersey is a song written by Gerry Marsden. It was first recorded by his band Gerry and the Pacemakers and released in late 1964 in the UK and ... "Mersey" refers to the River Mersey in northwest England, a river that flows into...
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EVERGREEN CD 2690942 GERRY PACEMAKERS LIVE Super Hits  Gerry and the Pacemakers were a British beat music group prominent during the ... and "Ferry Cross the Mersey", as well as their first and biggest US hit, "Don't ... 3261) and "I Like It" with "Jambalaya" (Laurie 3271) with some success. ... Ferry Across The Mersey ... The CD is from the EVERGREEN series of out of print CDs.
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The Teddy Boy Movement - BlackCat Rockabilly Europe  The consumer boom of the 1950s America did not reach Britain until the 1960s but ... The first Rock and Roll pubs appeared as did the Rockers who liked the same .... Early in the decade, Britain produced the first Teddy Boys, regarded as the...
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Recalling Elvis Presley's #1 records on Billboard's top pop chart  So, when Elvis first hit the charts with Heartbreak Hotel in March 1956, Billboard .... It remained the chart's top dog for 8 weeks, before finally losing the top spot to Pat ... his future movie costar, at the top of the Billboard pop chart on April 21, 1962. ... for one more week, after which Soldier Boy by the Shirelles took its place.
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The Hollies - Expand Your Mind - Topics  The Hollies became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s (231 ... Graham Nash left the group in 1968 to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash . ... Released in the US as Stop! Stop! Stop! it reached No.91 there and spawned a US ... in 1967 Graham Nash co-wrote John Walker's first solo hit "Annabella"  and...
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Top 100 Songs of 1962 - Billboard Year End Charts  Home Page > Pop Culture > Top 100 Songs of the Year : Current Page. Every December Billboard publishes a chart listing the year's top songs based on their cumulative chart performance ... You also might like the songs that hit number one in 1962 in the US, the UK, or Australia. ... 2, Ray Charles, I Can't Stop Loving You.