Post any old song you can think of.

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Continuing my Manchester mini-series this is Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders' first single 'Hello Josephine', 1963, it rocks. They had so much fun in those days, whereas the Manchester groups of the 80s and 90s were anything but fun...

 
Levenshulme's Wayne Fontana eventually split from the Mindbenders, and was set for a glittering solo career, but it never really took off. He made a few good records in the process though. 'Pamela Pamela' was written by the aforementioned Graham Gouldman...

 
SPLINE said:
Levenshulme's Wayne Fontana eventually split from the Mindbenders, and was set for a glittering solo career, but it never really took off. He made a few good records in the process though. 'Pamela Pamela' was written by the aforementioned Graham Gouldman...

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Quite surreal to read about the early stuff Graham Gouldman wrote, all whilst working in a menswear shop, lol.

 
The Mindbenders continued after Wayne Fontana left, and with guitarist Eric Stewart taking over the vocals scored a huge hit with 'Groovy Kind Of Love'.


Eric was dissatisfied with the standard of northern recording studios in the 60s and, wanting to create better facilities for groups, invested money in Stockport's Inner City Studios, which, when renamed Strawberry Studios would become the best equipped studio outside London A few years down the line Eric became one of the most well-known faces in pop music.
 
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fillyboy said:
An old favourite of mine from the 70's by Gary Shearston, couple of versions on youtube, one has good quality sound, but the one with poor quality sound features Pans People.

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I could have joined them in that dance with my legs
 
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