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Showing posts with label revolver. Show all posts
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Saturday, 8 October 2022

Revolver - One & One Is Two (1979)



b/w Nobody I Know

Cool Beatles Sounding Powerpop from

Brian Doran (Voc Guitar) 
Keith Gunson (Voc Bass) later in The Cherry Boys 
Derek Barlow (Guitar Voc)
Paul Scrutton (Drums Voc)

Revolver was a side project for Black Maria [A Beatles Cover band popular on the Merseyside circuit throughout the 70' & early 80's]

September 1979 saw the release of this 45 & an LP [Northern Songs (The Lennon & McCartney Compositions the Beatles Never Issued)] on Rox Records

LP Tracklist  [with the original Artists that released them]
01 One And One Is Two [Mike Shannon & The Strangers]
02 Bad To Me [Billy J. Kramer With The Dakotas]
03 World Without Love [Peter & Gordon]
04 Love Of The Loved [Cilla Black]
05 I'll Keep You Satisfied [Billy J. Kramer]
06 That Means A Lot [P.J. Proby]
07 I'll Be On My Way [Billy J. Kramer With The Dakotas]
08 I Don't Want To See You Again [Peter & Gordon]
09 Hello Little Girl [The Fourmost]
10 Tip Of My Tongue [Tommy Quickly]
11 Nobody I Know [Peter & Gordon]
12 From A Window [Billy J. Kramer With The Dakotas]
13 Step Inside Love [Cilla Black]
14 Like Dreamers Do [The Applejacks]
15 Goodbye [Mary Hopkin]
16 It's For You [Cilla Black]
17 I'm In Love [The Fourmost]

Useless Info 1 - One & One is Two was composed in Jan 1964 @ The George V Hotel, Paris.

Useless Info 2 - One & One is Two also had an outing in the USA in 1979 courtesy of The Badbeats 

Useless Info 3 - The LP [Trio Records – AW-1053] & another 45 [Goodbye/World Without Love - Trio Records – AW-124] were released in Japan as a tribute/obituary to John Lennon in early '81. 

Friday, 14 January 2011

Revolver - Revolver EP (1982)


A1 - Sha La La La Lee (Marriott/Lane)
A2 - This Boy/Yes It Is (Lennon/McCartney)
B1 - Can't Let Maggie Go (Dello)
B2 - Oh Pretty Woman (Orbison)

Nice 60's sounding powerpop from this Scottish (Glasgow Area) band, who seemed to start life in 1980 although all of them had played in other incarnations with each other. (Anthem & Playground to name 2 but there's more info here)

The band were

David A Gilmour (voc guitar)
John Williams (guitar voc)
Harry Driscoll (bass voc)
Ray Hackett (drums)
Billy Gilmour (keyboards voc)

BTW - if you go here there are a limited amount of copies of this 45 available (read the general info/members section)

Sounds & scans below

http://www.mediafire.com/?9odbdzrta3gihad