Music

Music

Surprisingly few pictures exist of pre-war and immediate post-war entertainers on stage in Jersey, probably because publicity pictures tended to be taken in outdoor locations and, long before the age of the smart phone, those attending performances did not have cameras with them, particularly not equipped with a flash. So this picture, taken at the Plaza ballroom in the late 1940s, of Jack Dale and his band, is particularly welcome. Jack Dale was a clarinet/saxophone player from Birmingham who played as a member of Benny Loban and his Music Weavers on the 1930 recording of L'imagine

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  Mc Kee family band
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  The Gaieties, 1920
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  The Dandies
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  1910 music festival
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  Freddie and the Dreamers perform in Jersey in 1964
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  Adam and the Ants at Fort Regent in 1981
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  The Salvation Army band in 1908
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  The Pontiac in 1967
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  Steam at Fort Regent in 1969
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  Another picture of Steam
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  The Parlour Band at the Underground in the 1970s
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  Simon Raverne at Les Arches in 1972

Cliff Richard performed in the island on a number of occasions, most notably in 1980, when Westley Grove Methodist Church was packed for a concert

Paul Young at Fort Regent

Paul Young on stage at Fort Regent in 1985 - pictures Jersey Evening Post

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  St Lawrence parish band in 1898
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  Lulu at Fort Regent in 1982
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  St Martin Brass Band 1905
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  St Martin Fife and Drum Band at Rosel Manor in 1909
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  A women's ensemble in 1891
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  Les Watson's Band, the resident band at West Park Pavilion for many years
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  St Martin parish band in 1909
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  Johnny Dennis in 1953
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  Chameleon, a 1960s local group, featuring Mark Anders, Miney Rye, Brian Skelley and Clive Anders. Brian Skelley went on to become a successful restaurateur and amateur photographer
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  An all-girl musical ensemble
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  St Martin parish band in 1908
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  McKee family band

The Band of the Island of Jersey

Two ladies' ensembles

This picture of Marjorie and her band was taken in about 1930. They probably played a somewhat different genre of music from the sextet below

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  St Lawrence parish band in 1908
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  The Gaieties, popular visitors to Jersey who performed in the Triangle Park in the early 20th century
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  The Triangle Park alongside the Grand Hotel was an outdoor concert venue
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  The White Coons, very popular in Jersey in the early 20th century - their name would hardly be acceptable today.
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  The White Coons participated in early Battle of Flowers
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  The White Coons in 1903. From the top: Allan Thomas, Evelyn Booth, Fred Allandale, Jessie Jolly and Ben Lawes
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  The White Coons in 1903. From the left, Fred Allandale, Evelyn Booth, Ben Lawes, Jessie Jolly and Allan Thomas
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  1903
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  The White Coons were back in the island in 1904
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  Another picture from 1904
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  1904
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  1903
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  1904 - Picture by Hamilton Toovey
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  Hank Terry and the Mainliners in St Andrew's Park in the 1960s
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  Hank Terry and the Mainliners
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  The Triangle Park
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  The Cecilian Orchestra in 1900
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  Music in the Royal Square in 1907
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  The Band of the Island of Jersey
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  The Band of the Island of Jersey in 1970
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  The Band of the Island of Jersey
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  The Jersey Symphony Orchestra
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  The Imperial Ladies Orchestra
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  A Militia band circa 1930
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  Militia Drum Band
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  The band of the Militia East Regiment
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  The Northampton Regiment Band
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  Five Aces, West Park Pavilion's first rock band
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  Band of the Island of Jersey
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  Run For Cover were a resident band at Gorey's Dolphin Hotel in 2000
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  Ali's Garden at the Dolphin, also in 2000
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  Guitar trio at the Rainbow Room on New Year's Day in 1959 - Mo Whitford, Mick Wallser and Ken Thomson

Jersey group Friends in 1971 or '72. Paul Dwyer, Dave Cabeldu, Lummy and Eddie Edwards

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  The band of the 47th Regiment Fusiliers in Jersey in 1879
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  Salvation Army band
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  Juniorat Orchestra
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  St Martin militia band
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  The Crescendos at the Deep
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  Crescendos brass section
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  Crescendos at the Bal Tabarin in 1967
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  Crescendos at the Tropicana
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  Led Zeppelin at Behan's West Park in 1975
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  Music in the Parade
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  Music in the Parade
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  Salvation Army band on the Albert Pier for the departure of Lieut-Governor Bingham
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  Engelbert Humperdinck, 1967

A final performance for schools music teacher Arthur Lobb

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  Freddie and the Dreamers, 1964
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  Pontiac
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  Pontiac
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  Stephane Grappelli, 1977
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  Sons of Fascination, 1987
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  People's People, 1967
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  People's People at Springfield for a group contest
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  Steam, 1968
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  The Existence
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  Us Ltd
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  Les Hamonets, supporting election candidate Hamon in St Lawrence in 1952
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  A band on the New North Quay
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  The Five Aces ...
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  ... claimed to be Jersey's first rock & roll band

Hank and Dave Dakota were brothers Terry and David Bourke, who performed as a duo in the early 1960s after previously being part of a larger ensemble, Hank Terry and the Mainliners

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  A Scottish band at Springfield
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  The Band of the Island of Jersey passing through York Street
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  St Paul's Choir in 1930
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  A visiting band at the Harbour in 1902
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  Jersey Musical Union
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  Cliff Richard arrives at the Airport
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  Saxolean Six
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  Revellers
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  A military band at the Harbour
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  Breton dancers, c1900
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  Shady Lady at Scarletts, St John, in 1976
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  LL postcard
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  LL postcard
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  LL postcard
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  LL postcard
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  Silk programme for a 1915 charity concert
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  Sonic Workshop, later Mother Nature's Sons, on the steps of Hilgrove Hall in Gorey, also called the Etoile discotheque, in about 1970
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  The Cousins, a popular Jersey group in 1963, when they performed at Greve de Lecq for a summer season
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  The Cousins at Greve de Lecq Pavilion in 1963 ...
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  ... and at West Park Pavilion
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  The Cousins in the early 1960s
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  The Cousins were not all related but chose their name following the popularity of UK band Joe Brown and the Bruvvers
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  The Cousins in 1963
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  Gerry and the Pacemakers, one of the top 'sixties groups, performed at Springfield
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  New Federation, a Jersey group
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  Jersey group Golem in 1979 - David Whitley, Ron Laity, Ned Mesney, Graeham Bald and Julian Wakeham - Picture Jersey Evening Post
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  St Matthew's Roman Catholic Church band - date unknown

Members of the Jersey Musical Union arrive at Dinard Airport for a French tour

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  David Cabeldu
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  Divine Toe in 1968
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  Avenue in the 1970s
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  Springfield Hall in the 1950s
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  A visiting band performs at the Weighbridge in 1959 or 1960
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  The Cousins at the Rainbow Room in the1960s
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  Hank Terry and the Mainliners on stage at the Forum Cinema
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  An impromptu performance in a St Helier street - sadly no more details are available on who? when? and where?
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  Chelsea Syncopators in 1930
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  Jersey Musical Union
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  Jersey Musical Union
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  Jersey Big Band in the 1990s
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  Penthouse, 1972
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  St James at Hotel de l'Europe in 1970
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  The Heartbeats in 1959
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  The Heartbeats
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  The Heartbeats
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  An unnamed group at Bal Tabarin in 1969
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  Clockwork Strawberry in 1969
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  People's People at Tropicana in 1967
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  Newspaper advert showing accounts of a Musical Union concert
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  St Helier Boys School band's outdoor performance

1978 bands - Jersey Evening Post pictures

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  Curle
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  Darts
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  Driver
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  Eezie
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  Rekord
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  Urchin

A large crowd greeted the arrival of a French military band in 1906 as part of the entente cordiale initiative which started two years earlier with the signing of a treaty between the UK and France

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Sisters-in-law Valerie (1936, Willesden, London, England) and Elaine Murtagh (1940, County Cork, Eire) originally performed as the Avon Sisters. After being discovered singing at the 1958 BBC Radio Exhibition, they signed to UK Columbia Records where they recorded with producer Norrie Paramor. Their debut was Which Witch Doctor‚ with the Mudlarks, and their debut solo release was a cover version of Jerri O - both songs failed to chart. They added Ray Adams, who was born in Jersey in 1938, whom they spotted singing with Nat Gonella's Band, and then changed their name to the Avons. Their first single under the new name, a cover version of Paul Evans' Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat‚ in 1959, gave them their only UK Top 20 chart entry.