Casey Jones & the Governors

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Casey Jones & the Governors
General information
Genre (s) Pop , rock
Current occupation
singing
 Casey Jones, real name Brian Casser (born March 21, 1936 in Liverpool )
guitar
 Roger Hook
guitar
 David Christopher John Colman
bass
 Jim Redford
Drums
 Peter Richards

Casey Jones & the Governors were a British beat band from the 1960s .

history

Brian Casser was initially a chef before founding the band Cass & the Casanovas in 1959 . This initially interpreted folk repertoire, but quickly turned to the more promising beat . After separating from Casser, the remaining band members continued to play as a trio, now under the name The Big Three with a harder sound than "one of the loudest bands on the Mersey". Guitarist Adrian Barber was later stage manager at the Hamburg Star Club , drummer Johnny Hutchinson occasionally helped out with the Beatles .

Meanwhile, Cass became "Casey Jones", his new backing band was now called The Engineers - both allusions to the story of the American train driver of the same name, which is relatively well known in the English-speaking world . Members at times included musicians such as Eric Clapton and Tom McGuinness. After the end of this equally short-lived line-up, Casser's musical career was suspended for some time, as he was discovered for television and was in front of the camera in several Maigret episodes.

When the series was over, Casser looked for new players. The resulting quintet was called Casey Jones & the Governors and quickly gained an excellent reputation as a spirited beat band. The five musicians toured successfully not only through England , but also through Germany and celebrated great success in the Star Club .

However, the record career lasted little more than a year. The formation later changed its name to Gaslight Union and stayed in Germany before disappearing into oblivion. David Christopher John Colman came to WDR as an editor and disc jockey , Casey Jones worked as a DJ in a discotheque in Löhnberg (Hesse) in the mid-1970s .

In the wake of the oldies boom, Jones performed again (with new musicians) in the 1980s and 1990s. Today Casey Jones lives in Unna and occasionally performs with the oldie band Here comes Johnny .

Their best-known title Don't Ha Ha originally comes from Huey "Piano" Smith , for him and his "Clowns" it was still called Don't You Just Know It . The party classic was covered by Mr. Ed Jumps the Gun in the late 1990s and by DJ Ötzi in 2001 .

Casey Jones, 2015 live at Café Curioso, Heinsberg

Discography (selection)

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
1965 Don't ha ha DE10 (28 weeks)
DE
Casey Jones & The Governors DE29 (4 weeks)
DE

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT
1965 Don't Ha Ha
Don't Ha Ha 		DE2 (24 weeks)
DE 		AT9 (8 weeks)
AT
Candy man
 DE30 (8 weeks)
DE 		-
Jack the Ripper
Don't Ha Ha 		DE9 (20 weeks)
DE 		-
Yockomo
Casey Jones & The Governors 		DE17 (8 weeks)
DE 		-
1966 Little girl
 DE25 (4 weeks)
DE 		-
Come on and dance
 DE39 (2 weeks)
DE 		-

More singles

  • 1964: Blue Tears

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill Harry, The Encyclopedia of Beatles People , London 1997, pp. 59 f.
  2. ↑ Gelsenkirchen Stories , accessed on December 27, 2017
  3. ↑ revierpassagen.de , accessed on December 27, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE