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Pont 5.. Page Sit, NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending April 20. 1963 NEW RECORD MIRROR, Week -ending April 20, 1963 The Latin -Tinged lIalladeer Who Never Quite Made It!r Flying Stars THE SOUL -BEAT.REVIVAL... El Cliff And MB.CYRIL DAVIS,purveyor ofR & B is currently the whitehopeof Eye's someone makes the grade commercially, new R & B campaign. With his new single, the scintillating, exciting they have forsaken all their professional The Great Minium No.1 BEN E. KING "Country Line Special" he may be all set to make the final breakthrough ofstandards. Well I don't reckon that's so. El Shadows the music that has been classed "high class rock If roll". They said that about Muddy Waters but RHYTHM &I he'sjustasgreatnowasheever ROUND about 1958 the American beat group The Drifters cut a disc with siming.Itjust about made the British "I don't really know much about rock though" he confessed to me. "Eve Ev=v.Tatt.-.04-."°'5sa new lead singer. The disc was issued in England and didn't mean charts, having about the same amount of been playing this sort of stuff for years now-and I know bat our music won't thing.Butin the Males it reached the top of the charts and wasvotedthe success as the inferior "Fix. Taste Of change- an though some of the other groups may go toward rock music CyriPs ambition is to go to Chicago- BLUES Mamie Paramor, are Columbia a & r Love" had some months before. mom Mind you, Were are people who think we play rock", he laughed. andheintendsretiringvery oung. num and handl..., fliesto Spain on tap R & B disc of 1959. Whichwouldhe a sad thing for the R Sunday where -in Barcelona - be will The Drifters hadn't been in the U.S. top twenty for quite a while. Their Ben's next discs were all major hits in Cyril himself was born in Denham onment a aut. of hi, band in special R & B Rene which should he tinning like recordCliffRichard and FrankIfield theStates-andveryvett mMor ones January 23, 193/ As a OE he bleared mad before very lam.... SPREAD By ! new singer had not only sung the lead but also penned their new disc.The here. "I Count The Team" had been hk & B sets with Ottelie Patterson. alga in Spanish. title was "There Goes My Baby", and the singer was Benjamin Nelson. Banjo Ukelele. When he leftechos), he Such was the impact that a complete lastdisc with An Drifters andit was became apanelbeater andlaterper- The numbers, all well known Spanish issued shortly after "First Taste". That new group for R & Bwithout theBarber Underneath the disc in brackets were the nat. Nelson-Glick-Treedwells formed ina semi -protrod.bandlolled Alexis. Andit standards,willbereleasedin La. Nathan. That was because Benjamin wished to make each member of the the charts on both sides of Me `Steve Lane Southern Stompers', but at hand was made up, led by NORMAN America as well as Spain. Amadetlantic andsodid "Amor"-another started .le kg at the former jazz strong- group a partner in the royalties. 23 he decided the blues were more for holdthe Mhquee on Thursdayswith The Shadows oil also be recorded in tor a recording session, and at thestudio Latin -flavoured number that was included him and helearnedtoplay a lase. For Show Business reasons Benjamin on Ben's hot solo L.P. "Spanish Hai, great SIICCeSs. Barcelona,playingrockversionsof changed his name. From Nelson to King. only Ben tuna out-for the other mem- MI'. Puna, But later after differences over musical JOPLING Spanish instrumentals. bers of the group lived quite a ea sea'leer"-a scintiOting collection of Latin And Me name Bea E. King was born. flavoured numbers. The album also won "My kind of R & B lest grew out ofofpolicy, Cyril decided to form his own If the sessions are asuccess, Horde A rather gimmick name for a singer who and could not makeB. of the Nees", he said. "We Mink band, and when Alexis Eft the rmidency So the recording prttnelBoa. decided to the U.S. prim for the beat album cover intendstorecord English versionsof was to build up a following of fans who of the year. A look at the cover, and a marvellousthoughthatIt& Bhas of the Marquee Cyril moved in. some of the numbers sung by Frank and supported him through thick and thin. cut a disc with just g was aped"Eh. caught on like this-we couldn't be more And no. the Marquee isprob.,ly TasteOf Love"-and itwas listento"Spanish Harlem" will show Cliff. Theo willbe recorded (and of The Drifters began to make more hits. you why. one of the most successful clubs in Lon- course released) in Britain. issued shortly aftero theStates and in don, thanks to the authentic --and itis Their "Dance With Me"/"True Love, Brioin. But in the States* didn't do as When theskittleonbegan,Cyril and of R & B thm's being Whro he returns to England, Morrie True Love" not only hit the top in the well as recording exttutives anticipated. IMPACT played frequently with names like Lonnie will be Waved in three big disc pro- Statesbut a.) made theBritishtop playedr' there. With Cyril and his band But then Dee -Jayssta rteff plugging Me Ben begantomake aconsiderable Moog. and Ken Cohen.ColYer sug- are Long John Baldry, probably jects:- en. givingthe team, a. Ben,its flip, a number called "Spanish Hark, impact in the States but in Britain his E ked that Cyril open a club. for blues first British hit. Britain'spremierbluessingr, and the French singing star Richard Anthony anditleaptintotheU.S.charm.It awe. if wything, dimhished. which he did at the Roundhouse, Wan Velvets, three colouredgirls`ttmparable willflyto London to he recorded,in "This Magic Moment" and "Lonely made the top twenty and stayed there for "Ecstasy", "Here Comes The Night", dour Street only to Ray Glories' Raylets. English, by Morriefor release on Was"followed. Allweresizeable quite a while. "Young Boy Blues" "Don't Play That Members of Cyril's Roar (Me average Columbia. "I'll There, Cyril met up with Akkis Stateside hits. But then came the biggest .ecutives at Ateo Records, however, Song (YamLiwirs, "Too Bad", nes another blues boy and a partnerShM ageiseighteen ears)areCyril-har. hit ofall.It was titled "Save The Last had big ideas for Ben. he had Stand By You", ad now "How Can 1 was set up. The two gents, organised and mortice/vocals;BernieWatson - lead HEINZ Dance For Me".Itshot up the U.S.cut a disc solo for Atcoco Records call. Forget?" starred at the club, and during itseight miter; RkkyFenson-hao chart, and went to the number one spot. Brace Yourself"/"Show Me The Way" is The latter though a cover of the or . year, of existence Presented suchnames Nick, Hopkins-piano redo Little-Triple- Flying back from Paris,along with -both areactuallyincluded on Ben's biggest hit by Jimmy Holliday-which is as Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Ecru, arum.drum& the rest of the Tornados is bees guitarist AMAZEMENT L.P. "Don't Play That Wog"-, collec- moving up the charts faster Man Ben's. andBrownie McGhee, and REAM, a puristieprobably Heinz Bort. But at the end of this month, tion of many of his big hits. He .d also The Drifters, Ben's ex -group, have been mercialcatchybeat baWd beforehe i'ilkeyeTt To theeternalamazementof eve, made the charts. The polish° Jack EIBM. When the club closed down, e=ic R & B harmonies Heinzisputting away hisguitar and cutsomediscswithAtlanticattist having of late more success than Ben. Cyril and Alexis split, but were rnjoined Englod. R & B fan in England it dM We some LaVerne Baker, who had previoaY Thereis much chwee ofthis as andunderrated leaving the group to embark on a solo here. When Ben firstleft the team they wori when Chris Barber asked them to aug- "Peopleseemtothinkthatwhen career . ainger. big spots wad R & it numbers like through a lean period but now they have there k of Cliff Richard making "Stand BEN E. KING. He makes his TV debut inhis new The disc though constituted something "Jim Day" and "I Cried A Tear". struck back. Their discs include "Sweets ratherdifferent from the usual run-of- Atthetimeofhissplitwiththe For My Sweet", "Room Full Of Tears", at on the May 4 Thank Your Lucky the-mill R & IIstuff. It had a distinctive Rams on which he will tender his record- DriftersBenhaddeveloped agood "Up On The Roof" and now "On Latin flavour andlilt aboutit.Italso cabaret act, both by himself and with Broadwa5 ing (elearsd on that date by Deem) of had the honour of being the only disc to the Me Meek composition "Drumm Do LaVerne. They created one of the most have more than one "answer" disc. For voralacts on any The factisthatBen.E. King has CHUCK BERRY: The Man With A Hundred Guitars... Come True". exciting and talmted made some of the best discs of his DP, One of the most there was not only "1'0 Save The Last stage. HeMi first venture into variety tooth'.) Dance For Yon", but "You're Having After his sucttss with "Spanish Ha, and they haven't ark on inBritain exciting artists asa tosinger will be on the JuryThe L. Dana Whh Me"-recordedkm" Ben waxed another number that despite extensive plugging and adva, on We music Lee Lei. tour which opens May 6. some months later by Billy Fury of all was destined forthe number two spot log. Although his Stateside success is not His firstfilmisscheduled for Rank people on an L.P.

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