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Melanie Cries Alone
"Melanie Cries Alone" was a single for English psychedelic pop group Consortium. It was released in the UK in 1970 but became a hit a year later in another country. Background "Melanie Cries Alone" was composed by Myers, Worsley and Robinson. It was produced by John Worsley and arranged by Steve Grey. In the week of 31 January 1970, '' Cashbox'' reported that Trend Records had put together a sampler record with excerpts by three artists, The Chads with "Dearest Belinda", Consortium A consortium () is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a ... with "Melanie Cries Alone", and Abel Mann with "The Sun in My Morning". Each section was announced by DJ David Hamilton. The Consortium song was released that month. Backed with "Copper Coloured Years" it was released on Trend TNT 52 in January, 1970 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consortium (band)
West Coast Consortium, or simply Consortium, were a British psychedelic pop group which recorded for Pye Records between 1967 and 1970. They were best known for the single "All the Love in the World". Background The band was originally formed as Group 66, consisting of Robbie Fair (also named Robbie Leggat, lead vocals), Geoff Simpson (lead guitar, backing vocals), Brian Bronson (rhythm guitar), John Barker (bass), and John Podbury (drums). They started out doing covers, but later started to write their own songs. They became a harmony-singing group in the mould of The Beach Boys and The Four Seasons. They were first renamed XIT, and after they were signed to Pye Records, they changed the name again to West Coast Consortium. Career 1960s The band released "All the Love in the World" under the shortened name of Consortium in 1969, which reached No. 22 on the UK Singles Chart, and No. 11 on the Dutch chart. They released a few more singles but these failed to chart. Although Pye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trend Records (UK Label)
Trend Records was an English Record label which existed from the late 1960s until the early 1970s. It issued recordings by such notable artists and personalities as Consortium (band), Consortium, The Foundations, Audrey Hall, Marcus Lipton, Julie Stevens (English actress), Julie Stevens, Warm Dust and Colin Young. Background In February 1968, the label was launched. They had entered into a deal with Associated Records. Promotion was handled by Richard Eddy of Trend and Andrew Vere of Saga Records. All of the acts that had been signed to Barry Class, Barry Class' company Barry Class Management would have their recordings issued on the label. One act, The Foundations that Class managed would not have their recordings issued on Trend. Prior to the February launch, Class was speculating on issuing budget records. Trend Records was one of the Class group of companies which also included Class Destination Inc., Class Management, Class Theatrical Agency and the Disci chain of record sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Myers (songwriter)
David Myers is an English songwriter who has written songs for artists such as Dalston Diamonds, The Foundations, Linda Kelly, Billy Ocean, Rainbow, Sonny Reeder, Clodagh Rodgers, and Johnny Tudor. His greatest hit success was with "Jack in the Box". Background Along with John Worsley, David Myers was employed by Southern Music as a songwriter. They would later work for the Trend record label which was owned by Barry Class.Seventies Sevens TREND/ref> Two of his compositions have been Eurovision entries.Songs for Europe A SONG FOR EUROPE 1971, Songs, SONG Jack In The Box, COMPOSER(S) David Myers & John Worsley, POINTS 22, POSITION 1/ref>Eurovision World A Song for Europe 1977: The Foundations - "Where were you when I needed your love"/ref> Career Having left Southern Music in 1969, David Myers and John Worsley were now employed as songwrtiters for Barry Class' Trend record label. Myers and Worsley wrote " Baby, I Couldn't See" which was recorded by The Foundations in 1969. Bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Vandyke
John Worsley (21 June 1931 – 6 August 2021), more widely known under the pseudonyms Les Vandyke and Johnny Worth, was an English popular music songwriter from the 1950s to the 1980s, who started his career as a singer. As "Les Vandyke", he wrote the UK No.1 hits " What Do You Want?", " Poor Me" (both for Adam Faith), and " Well I Ask You" (for Eden Kane). He also wrote hit singles billed as "John Worth", notably " Gonna Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse" a number 8 UK hit in 1973 for Jimmy Helms and "To Have and To Hold", a number 17 UK hit for Catherine Stock in 1986; and had notable industry success under his real name of John Worsley (especially with "Jack in the Box", a number 4 UK hit for Clodagh Rodgers in 1971). His songs were recorded by various artists, including Petula Clark, Vince Hill, Engelbert Humperdinck, Anthony Newley, Bobby Vee, Shirley Bassey, Herman's Hermits, Marty Wilde, Bobby Rydell, Cleo Laine, Barbra Streisand, Jimmy Justice, John Leyton, Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Gray (musician)
Steve Gray (18 April 1944 – 20 September 2008) was a British pianist, composer and arranger. He was an active session musician and arranger in the 1970s, and a performer and composer for the KPM 1000 Series of library music recordings. In the 1980s and into the 1990s Gray was a member of the instrumental rock band Sky, and later worked on ambitious arranging and composition projects for big bands in Holland and Germany. Early career Gray was born in Middlesbrough, England. At the age of 10, he began teaching himself to play the piano. He joined the Middlesbrough Municipal Jazz Orchestra, at first playing the bassoon but later switching to the saxophone. The orchestra was directed by Ron Aspery, who would go on to create the fusion group Back Door. He moved to London in 1962 and began performing as a pianist in various groups, initially with the Phil Seamen Quintet, and then with various bands led by Harry Bence, Eric Delaney, Mike Cotton and Johnny Howard. In the early 1960s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cashbox (magazine)
''Cashbox'', also known as ''Cash Box'', is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996. Ten years after its dissolution, it was revived and continues as ''Cashbox Magazine'', an online magazine with weekly charts and occasional special print issues. In addition to the music industry, the magazine covered the amusement arcade industry, including jukebox machines and arcade games. History Print edition charts (1942–1996) ''Cashbox'' was one of several magazines that published record charts in the United States. Its most prominent competitors were '' Billboard'' and '' Record World'' (known as ''Music Vendor'' prior to April 1964). Unlike ''Billboard'', ''Cashbox'' combined all currently available recordings of a song into one chart position with artist and label information shown for each version, alphabetized by label. Originally, no indication of which version was the biggest seller was given, but from October 25, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Mann
John Creasey (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns. He wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several ongoing characters, such as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. Gideon of Scotland Yard was the basis for the television series ''Gideon's Way'' and for the John Ford movie '' Gideon's Day'' (1958). The Baron character was made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as '' The Baron''. Life and career John Creasey was born in Southfields, London Borough of Wandsworth (formerly part of Surrey), to a working-class family. He was the seventh of nine children of Ruth and Joseph Creasey, a poor coach maker. Creasey was educated at Fulham Eleme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hamilton (broadcaster)
David Hamilton (born David Pilditch; 10 September 1938) is an English radio and television presenter. Since his broadcasting career began in 1959, Hamilton has hosted over 12,000 radio shows and more than 1,000 television shows. He is often known as 'Diddy David Hamilton', a name given to him by the comedian Ken Dodd. Early life Hamilton was born in Manchester and attended Glastonbury Road Grammar School at St Helier in Surrey until the age of 17. While at school he became a columnist on the weekly national magazine ''Soccer Star''. He performed national service in the Royal Air Force from 1959. Television career On leaving school, Hamilton became a script-writer for the TV series ''Portrait of a Star''. Following his national service, he became an in-vision television announcer for ABC Weekend TV based in Didsbury, Manchester, and appeared with close friend Ken Dodd in the TV series ''Doddy's Music Box'', acquiring the nickname 'Diddy'. Throughout the 1960s, he hosted shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, Application software, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a Information wants to be free, free and open Internet. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge". The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures. The Archive also oversees numerous Internet Archive#Book collections, book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pye Records
PYE or Pye Records is an independent British record label. It was first established in 1955 and played a major role in shaping rock 'n' roll and pop music history. The Pye name was dropped in 1980 due to trademark issues, after which it produced almost no music until the company name and trademark was acquired by the Scottish broadcaster and music producer Tony Currie (broadcaster), Tony Currie in September 2024. The new Pye Records has begun to release new albums on vinyl: ''Race the Sun'' from the Tony Currie Orchestra, conducted by Gavin Sutherland (conductor), Gavin Sutherland (principal guest conductor for the English National Ballet), and Callum Au. ''Race the Sun'' was conceived to pay tribute to the pop orchestras of the original Pye Records. The revived label has also released ''Harvest Gold'' by the London-based singer-songwriter Andrea Black. Pye Records was best known for artistes such as Lonnie Donegan (1956–1969), Petula Clark (1957–1971), The Searchers (band) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs Written By John Worsley (songwriter)
A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice. The voice often carries the melody (a series of distinct and fixed pitches) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs have a structure, such as the common ABA form, and are usually made of sections that are repeated or performed with variation later. A song without instruments is said to be a cappella. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in the classical tradition, it is called an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally by ear are often referred to as folk songs. Songs composed for the mass market, designed to be sung by professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows, are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
