Post any old song you can think of.

[Highway Man]

 

[Highway Man]

 

[Highway Man]

 

[SPLINE]

'Look At Me' by the Whirlwinds, featuring a young Graham Gouldman from Prestwich, North Manchester. 1963. Buddy Holly cover. Don't know who the guitar ace is.

 

[SPLINE]

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...

 

[Highway Man]

 

[Highway Man]

The Rubetts didn't actually sing this, it was a group of session singers that made the recording and they just mimed it.

 

[Highway Man]

Paul da Vinci - Putting The Miming Record Straight - Beat Magazine

By Ian Woolley The voice of Paul da Vinci catapulted the Rubettes into the charts back in 1974. It was ironic that a short time later he appeared on Top of the Pops with his solo single “Your Baby Ain’t Your Baby Anymore” in the same studio with The Rubettes… Recorded at 1.30 am in […]

www.beat-magazine.co.uk

 

[SPLINE]

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...

 

[fillyboy]

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...

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

• "For Your Love" – The Yardbirds
• "Heart Full of Soul" – The Yardbirds
• "Look Through Any Window" – The Hollies
• "Bus Stop" – The Hollies
• "No Milk Today" – Herman’s Hermits

 

[Odds]

He missed a trick with Baggy Trousers

Bonus track for a sunny day...

 

[fillyboy]

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.

 

[SPLINE]

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.