Как это не странно, но группы для "неизвестных 60-х" еще не кончились. ;-))
Выкладываю давным-давно присланную информацию от koshei.
Tony Jackson and The Vibrations
Personnel:
IAN BUISEL ld gtr A B C
PAUL FRANCIS drms A B C
TONY JACKSON bs, vcls A B C
MARTIN RAYMOND organ A
IAN GREEN organ B
DENNIS THOMPSON bs C
45s:
1 Bye Bye Baby/Watch Your Step (Pye 7N 15685) 1964 38
2 You Beat Me To The Punch/This Girl Of Mine (Pye 7N 15745) 1964 -
3 Love Potion No 9/Fortune Teller (Pye 7N 15766) 1965 -
4 Stage Door/That's What I Want (Pye 7N 15876) 1965 -
5 You're My Number One/Let Me Know (CBS 202039) 1966 -
6 Never Leave Your Baby's Side/I'm The One She Really Thinks A Lot Of (CBS 202069) 1966 -
7 Follow Me/Walk That Walk (CBS 202297) 1966 -
8 Anything Else You Want/Come On And Stop (CBS 202408) 1966 -
Jackson, a Liverpudlian born on 16 July 1940, first came to prominence as bassist and vocalist for {The Searchers} but left during the Summer of 1964 at the height of their success. He had a nose job and returned fronting the London-based Vibrations who, with Raymond's Farfisa organ and girl background singers, sounded very different to {The Searchers}. The Vibrations were all Southerners. Martin Raymond had been with The Westminster Four, Ian Buisel (later Ian Leighton) joined from The Hot Rod Gang and Paul Francis had drummed for Rolf Harris and The Kangaroos. Their only hit was a cover of Mary Wells' Bye Bye Baby and gradually they faded from the public eye despite a series of 45s, including a re-recording of the old {Searchers}' song originally done by The Clovers, Love Potion No 9. Of their other 45s, You Beat Me To The Punch was also a Mary Wells song, produced by Larry Page.
By the time of Goffin/King's Stage Door the group had metamorphised into The Tony Jackson Group. In the States, this 45 was issued by Red Bird, a New York label better known for girl groups like The Shangri Las. They switched labels to CBS for {The Beatles} and {Searchers} hybrid You're My Number One, but this followed previous releases into the bargain bins. After this, Martin Raymond left the group. His replacement, Ian Green, had done session work with The Everly Brothers. Follow Me, a Warren Zevon song, got lots of airplay on pirate radio, but still failed to chart. The follow-up, Anything Else You Want, made no impression at all, although the 'B' side, a version of Bert Berns' Come On And Stop, contained some good fuzz guitar work. After this Pye failed to renew their contract, but the band (without Ian Green but with Dennis Thompson on bass and Tony concentrating on vocals) set off on a series of one night gigs across Europe ending up in Portugal. There, thanks to Ian Leighton's brother Jimmy's girlfriend, whose father ran a radio station, a Tony Jackson Group EP was issued. This is now one of the rarest EP's of the sixties and contains covers of Shake (with Ian Leighton handling vocals), the Byrds' He Was A Friend Of Mine, Paul Revere's Just Like Me and {The Small Faces}' Understanding. When the group returned to the UK, it disbanded.
Tony Jackson and The Vibrations reformed in 1991 at the instigation of Paul Francis, who'd done session work for {Bill Wyman} and Suzi Quatro in the interim. He'd also drummed for {The Luvvers}, {Tucky Buzzard} and {Cockney Rebel}. To coincide with this, Strange Things issued a mono version of Tony Jackson's post-{Searchers} material, which is also available on CD.
