WHAT’S NEW with THE YACHTSMEN by Malcolm C. Searles
Contents
Introduction Page ii CHAPTER ONE : The Yachtsmen Page 4 CHAPTER TWO : Mickey Elley Page 17 CHAPTER THREE : The What’s New Page 28 CHAPTER FOUR : Colin Scot Page 40
First PDF Edition by Malcolm C. Searles
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i INTRODUCTION
“In te land of Odin, tere stands a mountain...”
A sk me a year or so ago, I would have had no concept as to whom The Yachtsmen, or their latter-day counterparts The What’s New were – or how they fit into the realms of the mighty musical magnitude. Living in a sleepy landlocked U.K. city, 40 miles or so outside of London, what did I know of the many faceless performers who had paraded along the streets and performed their daily duties on the corners of Anaheim’s Disneyland theme park, over 50 years beforehand?