Beat music spread outside Liverpool though the influence was more R&B and later just Blues. Local beat scenes were found in places like Birmingham, Belfast, Newcastle and London. R&B bands benefited from beat music as well. By 1965, beat music was in decline with many bands disbanding or changing direction by 1967.
Have I the right – The Honeycombs
I can’t stand it – The Spencer Davis Group
Go now – Moody Blues
We gotta get out of this place – Eric Burdon and the Animals
Here comes the night – Them
I wanna be your man – The Rolling Stones
You really got me – The Kinks
For your love?? – The Yardbirds
Glad all over – Dave Clarke Five
World without love – Peter and Gordon
Do Wha Diddy Diddy – Manfred Mann
If you gotta make a fool of somebody – Freddie and the Dreamers
She’s not there – The Zombies
The game of love – Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
Mrs Brown you have a lovely daughter – Hermans Hermits
Playlist by the Pig’s Arms Musicologist – Algernon
Merseybeat had its beginnings at the Cavern Club. This list looks at the bands that played there often under the management or influence of Brian Epstein. It looks at the early years the early 60’s. These bands should be well known.
How do you do it – Gerry and the Pacemakers
Sweets for my sweet – The Searchers
Love of the loved – Cilla Black
Love me do – The Beatles
Some other guy – The Big Three
Hippy Hippy Shake – The swinging blue jeans
It’s love that really counts – The Merseybeats
The Fortune Teller – The Merseybeats .
These bands not as well known, some still playing today others disbanded a few years after. All had their start at the Cavern Club.
Angel of love -The Black knights
You don’t know what love is – The Dennsions
Hello little girl – The fourmost
Stupidity – Kingsize Taylor and the dominoes
Diddly daddy – The Liverbirds
Who told you – Freddy Star and the Midnighters
Just a little bit – The undertakers
Not really from Liverpool but not far away in Manchester, these bands also had their start at the Cavern Club.
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Not sure where exactly to post this as this pub seems to have far fewer rooms than it used to have… but I know it will at least be seen here, so here is where I’ll post it.
I’d have posted it much sooner, but I had a ‘medical emergency’ a week ago Friday and only got out of hospital on Wednesday. No, NOT COVID 19 (or so they tell me, anyway!) But it was a very nasty bout of pneumonia complicated by pulmonary embolisms. I’ll be on anti-coagulants for the next six months…
Anyway, here goes… Hope you all enjoy this video of me in my (motorized) kayak sailing past the wreck of the Santiago in the North Arm of the Port River, just behind Garden Island. The background music is me, playing Fleetwood Mac’s “Albatross” on my Epiphone ‘Dot’.
If you enjoy this, I have a few more videos (some with, and some without music) that I’d like to post, to share what I’ve been doing for the past few years with you all. If you watch it on a big screen it’s almost as good as being there!