The Scaffold

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Thank U Very Much
  UK 4th 11/28/1967 (12 weeks)
  US 69 02/10/1968 (5 weeks)
Do you remember
  UK 34 04/02/1968 (5 weeks)
Lily the Pink
  DE 5 01/18/1969 (12 weeks)
  AT 5 03/15/1969 (8 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 11/12/1968 (24 weeks)
Gin Gan Goolie
  UK 38 11/01/1969 (12 weeks)
Liverpool Lou
  UK 7th 06/01/1974 (9 weeks)

The Scaffold was a comedian troupe from Liverpool that had, among other things, some musical hit parade successes in the 1960s and 1970s.

Band history

In 1962 Roger McGough and John Gorman met at the Gorman-organized Merseyside Arts Festival in Liverpool. As a comedian duo and later as a trio together with Mike McGear (actually Michael McCartney and brother of Beatles member Paul McCartney ) they had performances with a mixture of humor, poetry lectures and songs. At the end of 1963 they were hired for the local television show Gazette , where they were responsible for humor and skits for half a year as The Scaffold (German: 'Schafott'). Successful stage programs followed.

In 1967 The Scaffold released their first single, the self-written Thank U Very Much . The song immediately reached the English Top 10. The following year her best-known song Lily the Pink followed , an international hit that topped the British charts at Christmas 1968 and then enjoyed success in the German Carnival. In 1969, The Scaffold also provided the theme song for the hit television series The Liver Birds , which is set in Liverpool and ran until 1996.

In 1970 the trio got their own television show, a children's quiz show with a comedy section under the title Score With the Scaffold . After the first season, however, the concept was revised and the musicians were given a co-moderator. A third season was no longer produced. After that, the trio began to break up. First followed a solo intermezzo by Michael McGear, who was supported by his famous brother Paul McCartney. In 1973, together with Andy Roberts, Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall, the Grimms (the name is made up of the first letters of the six surnames), the trio became a sextet. Musical publications in this combination were unsuccessful.

The last release of The Scaffold was in 1974. The Traditional Liverpool Lou, arranged by Paul and Linda McCartney, and the B-side Ten Years After on Strawberry Jam, written by the two, brought them another top ten single. After the Grimms disbanded in the mid-1970s, the original three Scaffold members also went their own way. Mike McGear / McCartney later worked as a photographer. Roger McGough devoted himself to poetry, hosted a poetry show on BBC Radio and was named CBE in 2004. John Gorman initially worked on television in the children's program Tiswas , where he was one of the Four Bucketeers who had a small chart hit in 1980. He then worked as a director, first for television and then for the theater.

Members

Discography

Singles

  • 2 Day's Monday / 3 Blind Jellyfish (1966)
  • Goodbat Nightman / A Long Strong Black Pudding (1966)
  • Thank U Very Much / Ide B the First (1967)
  • Do You Remember / Carry On Krow (1968)
  • 1-2-3 / Today (1968)
  • Lily the Pink / Buttons of Your Mind (1968)
  • Charity Bubbles / Goose (1969)
  • Gin Gan Goolie / Liver Birds (1969)
  • Liverpool Lou / Ten Years After on Strawberry Jam (1974)
  • Mummy Won't Be Home for Christmas / The Wind Is Blowing (1975)
  • Wouldn't It Be Funny If You Didn't Have a Nose? / Mr Noselighter (1976)
  • McGear and McGough as "The Bashers": Womble Bashers / Womble Basher Wock (1976)
  • How D'You Do? / Paper Underpants (1977)

Albums

  • McGough and McGear: McGough and McGear (1968)
  • Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (1968)
  • L the P (1969)
  • Fresh Liver (1973)
  • Sold Out (1974)
  • At Abbey Road 1966-1971 (1999)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT UK US

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