Bill Harry - Derry and the Seniors?

[Sgt. Pepper 45822]

I hope someone found them and cherished them for what they are worht

[harihead]

I'm ... stunned.

It just amazes me, how many people throw away things like this without even realizing it.

I'm going to go and be astounded some more. *pets Bill*

[Benzadrine Beat]

Hello again,
I tried following the link to http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/b-bootlegs_related/ but I received a couple of errors and I was not allowed in. Hopefully I can just post the links to the Howie Casey / Derry songs in this post. If not please send a tow truck to pull me from the cyber ditch.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5TQ4UCHO
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CU83V83J
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L0OKAY5N
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6SJR2QZL

Enjoy!

[BlueMeanie]

Thanks for these Ben. Any more? And do you have any info about them - titles, album title etc?

Possibly this:



Here's Howie in 2000.

[Bill Harry]

Can't remember whether I've already posted this, but here goes:

CASEY, HOWIE. A Liverpool musician who had learned to play sax while in the army. He formed Derry & the Seniors in November 1959. The line-up comprised Howie (saxophone), Derry Wilkie (vocals), Jeff Wallington (drums), Billy Hughes (rhythm/vocals). Brian Griffiths (lead) and Phil Whitehead (bass).
     They appeared regularly around Merseyside at venues such as Blair Hall, Wilson Hall and the Jacaranda. Because of the Jacaranda connection, clubowner Allan Williams booked them for the Liverpool Stadium Show with Gene Vincent on Tuesday 3 May 1960.
     Williams had staged the event with London impresario Larry Parnes and the bill featured a number of Liverpool groups. Parnes was impressed and asked Williams to arrange an audition as he was seeking bands to back his various artists, such as Billy Fury, Johnny Gentle and Duffy Power.
     The Silver Beetles were also present at the audition, which took place on Tuesday 10 May at the Wyvern Social Club in Seel Street. When Casey was later asked what he thought of them, he said:

[Benzadrine Beat]

Thanks for these Ben. Any more? And do you have any info about them - titles, album title etc?

Possibly this:



Here's Howie in 2000.

Blue Meanie,
Yes I have all the Howie Casey songs from "Twist at the Top" and much more! I thought I would post four to start, to see how it all worked and to see if there was any interest in more tracks. I'm not sure what you mean by "Here's Howie in 2000" but if you would like to see and hear him in 2006 go to the link I posted previously @ http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=48085

The songs I posted are shown in RED

Song Title

  1. Double Twist
  2. Fly, The
  3. Yes Indeed
  4. Bony Moronie
5. Taxi Blues
  6. Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
  7. Boll Weevil Song, The
  8. Big Daddy
  9. True Fine Mama
  10. Bone Shakin' Annie
  11. Stay
  12. Let's Twist Again
  13. I Ain't Mad at You
  14. Twist at the Top
  15. Mainline
  16. Swingin

[Bobber]

[Bobber]

This is what Bill posted on Facebook a couple of days ago:

Derry was a very important part of the Mersey scene and a good friend of mine. Derry & the Seniors were the very first Mersey group to go to Hamburg and the first Mersey group to make an album and single. There were two lead vocalists during their Kaiserkeller season - Derry and Billy Hughes. Derry was the ultimate showman and he was the one Koschmider referred to when he told the Beatles to 'mach shau' like Derry. At one point Derry gave up singing, but i encouraged him to form another group. He and I were going to collaborate on a book about his intriguing life called 'Black Scouse', but he vanished from the scene for years, disappearing in Italy where, I think, he had a jail sentence. I then saw him again in London at the Cromwellian club. Derry had a few too many, went out of the club, stole a bike and crashed into a police car at a set of traffic lights. Going up the escalator at Baker Street Station, he was going down and shouted out 'Bill, we've got to get together for a bevvy." I never saw him again and he passed away at too early an age.