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Title: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on January 26, 2009, 07:00:45 PM
while researching tony sheridan i always come across iteresting bands...he played with vince taylor and the playboys for a short time..i looked for this video on youtube but no luck so here is a french link...http://www.wat.tv/video/cadillac-kjij_kjg6_.html
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on February 15, 2009, 04:15:52 PM
http://www.wat.tv/video/peppermint-twist-kjht_kjg6_.html
http://www.wat.tv/video/there-a-lot-of-twistin-goin-on-kjgi_kjg6_.html
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: Bill Harry on February 15, 2009, 05:11:28 PM
Vince Taylor had a club in Soho called the Top Ten. When the Jets, with Tony Sheridan, were asked to play in Peter Eckhorn's club, the former Hippodrome, they suggested he name it after Taylor's club.
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on February 15, 2009, 05:41:04 PM
cool...was that b4 vince decided to live in france...
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on March 21, 2009, 03:04:39 PM
the clash did a fine cover of a vince tune......aWznVLR7sig (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWznVLR7sig)
Dc2pTC0D0j0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc2pTC0D0j0)
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: alexis on March 21, 2009, 03:17:04 PM
Quote from: 284
the clash did a fine cover of a vince tune......aWznVLR7sig ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWznVLR7sig[/url])
Dc2pTC0D0j0 ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc2pTC0D0j0[/url])


Great one, pc!  I love that Clash song, and play it on the piano a lot. Maybe I can get my band to do it. Rockabilly rules!
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on March 21, 2009, 03:17:16 PM
6pdutI1C6sE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pdutI1C6sE)
vinces' real name was Brian Maurice Holden.........http://vincetaylor.org/
vince eager said that brian once asked him to change his name from vince so that people wouldn't confuse the 2....he was a rough type of guy because eager said it was more of a threat than an askance....
gVfmLsJuJdY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVfmLsJuJdY) when i watch things like come back baby doll i think he over did things in the dance department...he took gene vincents name and stylings...he handled them well too...
i am endlessly looking for taylors vids because tony sheridan was in his band for a short spell....i am hoping to see tony in a vid of taylors but the search goes on....
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on March 21, 2009, 03:20:51 PM
in fact tony plays a vince song...i like love...i can't find it on youtube but i am sure tony played on vinces' version...BorpPNkv1v0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BorpPNkv1v0)
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: alexis on March 21, 2009, 03:24:13 PM
Quote from: 284
[url]http://www.wat.tv/video/peppermint-twist-kjht_kjg6_.html[/url]
[url]http://www.wat.tv/video/there-a-lot-of-twistin-goin-on-kjgi_kjg6_.html[/url]


http://www.wat.tv/video/there-a-lot-of-twistin-goin-on-kjgi_kjg6_.html

This guy has rubber legs. And he dances like he's being machine gunned when the percussion hits. I bet the girls loved him back then. Big rip off cover guy, but whom am I to point fingers?

Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: alexis on March 21, 2009, 03:27:32 PM
WTF - who is this guy? When/how/where did he get famous enough to get big video money in 1960? Was he a chart topper?
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on March 21, 2009, 03:32:56 PM
he was very big alex...he ended up going to france tho...like johnny halladay...the sad facts are that the beatles crushed the competition in england so some moved to other countries...search youtube for vince..he was there when it all was going on...he inspires... ;D
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on March 21, 2009, 03:35:22 PM
as for chart topping not here or in the uk but france loved him...look at this french vid...http://www.wat.tv/video/cadillac-kjij_kjg6_.html
http://www.wat.tv/video/peppermint-twist-kjht_kjg6_.html
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on March 21, 2009, 03:44:04 PM
you are starting to worry me alex...do you know dickie pride?AZBm6W5yQVs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZBm6W5yQVs)
heres that tony song of vinces...20YzySnv0RA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20YzySnv0RA)
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: alexis on March 22, 2009, 07:46:19 PM
Quote from: 284
you are starting to worry me alex...do you know dickie pride?AZBm6W5yQVs ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZBm6W5yQVs[/url])...


Don't worry, pc (Mummy's only looking for a hand in the snow).

Wasn't that a line from the woodchipper scene in "Fargo"?

That guy Dickie Pride ... looks like he gave Joe Cocker a pointer or two about stage presence ...

Oh, and that sax solo, man was even one note in tune, it sounded like a solo for a different song!

But thanks, pc,I actually had not heard of him! I just did a youtube and wiki search on Dickie Pride. For those who, like me, were not in the know ...

http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/dickie_pride.htm
1. Known as the "Sheik of Shake".
2.Obligatory Beatles connection - first signed by Larry Parnes, who signed The (Silver) Beetles to their first foreign tour - Scotland, backing up Johnny Gentle. (Wow!). Apparently shafted by Parnes, and universally thought to never get the break his talent deserved.
3. He died in 1969 of a drug overdose, after a lobotomy and heroin addiction.
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on March 22, 2009, 08:13:07 PM
yeah it is sad the way some of these preformers go......when you read about dickie,gene,eddie,sal mineo,ronnie van zant and a host of others and they way they had untimely deaths,you have to just believe the pete best got a pretty good deal... ;D
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on April 01, 2009, 02:40:57 PM
pnbrVrw8agI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnbrVrw8agI)SG0uk_ILNiM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG0uk_ILNiM)
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on April 01, 2009, 03:08:23 PM
XmQut3X23k0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmQut3X23k0) a shot of rhythm and blues
Title: Re: vince taylor and the playboys
Post by: pc31 on April 01, 2009, 03:12:49 PM
4wLV8XPrIXI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wLV8XPrIXI)long tall sally