Bob's Links
.Bob age 60 with a group of friends in Liverpool having a party...follow these great web links for more info. DID YOU KNOW The name Mersey Beat was used for a Liverpool music magazine founded in 1961 by Bill Harry. Harry claims to have coined the term "based on a policeman's beat and not that of the music".[2] The band the Pacifics were renamed the Mersey Beats in February 1962 by Bob Wooler, MC at the Cavern Club and in April that year they became The Merseybeats. [3] With the rise of the Beatles in 1963, the terms Mersey Sound and Merseybeat were applied to bands and singers from Liverpool, and this was the first time in British pop music that a sound and a location were linked together.[4] The equivalent scenes in Birmingham and London were described as Brum beat and the Tottenham Sound respectively.[5] View Simply the Best rare unseen first Liverpool documentary in the Beatles early years, hear John Lennon Phil Collins Sam Leech, Colin Hanton first Drummer of the band. Allan Williams the Beatles Manager/promoter Bobs partner. Gerry Marsden Ken Dodd to the first live recorded show in the Casanova Club above the Temple Bar Dale Street.
Hear Bob Live on record introducing the Big Three Live at the original at the Cavern Club
click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGg2PcAKvhU
Listen to The Big Three to hear Bob introduce this great performance as released on Friday 22 November 1963. Cass & The Cassanovas’ was first formed in May 1959 later becoming The Big Three. Newcastle Upon Tyne born Brian Casser along with Adrian Barber on guitar and Johnny Hutchinson on drums and vocals. By July 1959 the band played its first gig with Johnny Hutch at the Corinthean club in Liverpool’s Slater Street but they needed a bass player to complete the line-up.
Enter the great John Frederick Gustafson born in Liverpool on the 8 August 1942 who died in September 2014 age 72. Johnny "Gus" Gustafson. Brian Epstein & Co [NEMS] on January 24 1962 had signed the Beatles and yet The Big Three was currently the most popular group on Merseyside. Adrian Barber left the band and was replaced by Brian Griffith in 1962...Brian's play's a lovely sentimental tribute melody to the late great Patrick John 'Paddy' Chambers, guitarist, born April 30 1944; died September 28 2000. Thank you "BG" for these memories.
Hear Bob Live on record introducing the Big Three Live at the original at the Cavern Club
click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGg2PcAKvhU
Listen to The Big Three to hear Bob introduce this great performance as released on Friday 22 November 1963. Cass & The Cassanovas’ was first formed in May 1959 later becoming The Big Three. Newcastle Upon Tyne born Brian Casser along with Adrian Barber on guitar and Johnny Hutchinson on drums and vocals. By July 1959 the band played its first gig with Johnny Hutch at the Corinthean club in Liverpool’s Slater Street but they needed a bass player to complete the line-up.
Enter the great John Frederick Gustafson born in Liverpool on the 8 August 1942 who died in September 2014 age 72. Johnny "Gus" Gustafson. Brian Epstein & Co [NEMS] on January 24 1962 had signed the Beatles and yet The Big Three was currently the most popular group on Merseyside. Adrian Barber left the band and was replaced by Brian Griffith in 1962...Brian's play's a lovely sentimental tribute melody to the late great Patrick John 'Paddy' Chambers, guitarist, born April 30 1944; died September 28 2000. Thank you "BG" for these memories.