Thursday, October 9, 2008

THE TREMELOES

THE TREMELOES FORMED IN 1958.STILL ACTIVE UNTIL TODAY WITH A DIFFERENT LINE-UP. THEY ARE STRONG WITH THEIR FOUR PART HARMONIES. THIS 45 R.P.M VINYL IS ON THE CBS LABEL. RECORDED IN 1967 AND TITLED "HERE COMES THE TREMELOES" MY FAVORITE SONGS ARE "HERE COMES MY BABY" AND "SILENCE IS GOLDEN".
"silence is golden, golden but my eyes still see"


THE BAND L-R-RICKY WEST-TRAINED IN CLASSICAL MUSIC-SING FALSETTO-LEAD GUITAR AND VOCAL. LEN HAWKES-FORMER CARPENTER-SEX APPEAL OF THE GROUP-BASSIST AND VOCALS. ALAN BLAKELY-COMEDIAN OF THE GROUP-EVER SMILING-LEADER-RHYTHM GUITAR AND VOCALS. DAVE MUNDEN-SCHOOLBOY BOXER-QUIET-DRUMMER AND VOCALS.

SIDE A-HERE COMES MY BABY(CAT STEVEN)
EVEN THE BAD TIMES ARE GOOD(M.MURRAY/P.COLLANDER)

SIDE B-SILENCE IS GOLDEN-(MIKE SMITH)
SHAKE HANDS(AND COME CRYING)-(D.KERSHAW)

2 comments:

ZUSA said...

One of my favorite bands as well, from that era. The original of "Silence is Golden" was recorded by Franki Valli & the Four Seasons but the Tremeloes' version is more polished. I love the harmonies.

foodbin said...

i love ricky west falsetto voice