Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers

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Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers were a British beat band from the early 1960s.

history

After the first single by Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers was released in 1961, the band was already referred to by a press agency as the "number 1 beat group in London". However, it wasn't until Brian Epstein took over management that the breakthrough came. Cliff Bennett became an absolute teen idol after One Way Love stormed to # 12 on the UK charts in October 1964.

The next of their recordings were unsuccessful before they came to the top 10 for the first time with a cover version of the Beatles album Revolver ( "Got To Get You Into My Life" ). However, the song should become much better known in the interpretation by the Beatles themselves.

In 1970 Bennett disbanded the Rebel Rousers and formed Toe Fat , a progressive group that recorded two LPs . When he had little success with Toe Fat, however, Bennett re-used the old group name. In October 1972 he produced another single under Toe Fat on Chapter One .

In their early days, Frank Allen of the Searchers and Nicky Hopkins, who became known as a studio musician , played occasionally with them.

Members of Rebel Rousers

  • Dave Wendells
  • Bobby Thompson
  • Maurice Grooves
  • Sid Phillips
  • Mick Burt
  • Roy Young

Singles

Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers

  • You Got What I Like 1961
  • When I get Paid 1961
  • Poor Joe 1962
  • Everybody Loves A Lover 1963
  • You Really Got A Hold On Me 1963
  • Got My Mojo Working 1964
  • One Way Love 1964
  • I'll Take You Home 1965
  • Three Rooms With Running Water 1965
  • I've Cried My Last Tear 1965
  • You Can't Love 'em All 1966
  • Hold On I'm Coming 1966
  • Got To Get You Into My Life 1966
  • Don't Help Me Out 1966
  • I'll take Good Care of You 1967
  • Use me 1967

Cliff Bennett Band

LPs

  • Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers 1964
  • Drivin 'You Wild 1966
  • Got To Get You Into my Life 1967
  • Cliff Bennett Branches Out 1967
  • Toe Fat 1970
  • Toe Fat Two 1970

literature

  • Laufenberg, Frank / Hake, Ingrid: Rock and Pop Lexicon. Vol. 1: ABBA - Kay Kyser . Düsseldorf / Vienna: Econ Verlag, 1994, p. 123f.

swell

  1. ↑ Ehnert, Günter (Ed.): Hit Records. British Chart Singles 1950-1965 . Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1988, p. 17
  2. ^ Nugent, Stephen / Fowler, Anne / Fowler, Pete: Chart Log of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955-1974 . In: Gillett, Charlie / Frith, Simon (eds.): Rock File 4 . Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther Books, 1976, p. 85