The Honeycombs

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The Honeycombs
The Honeycombs (1964)
The Honeycombs (1964)
General information
founding 1964
resolution 1967
Website http://www.thehoneycombs.biz/
Founding members
Denis D'Ell
Martin Murray
Honey Lantree
Guitar , piano, organ
 Allan Ward
John Lantree
Honeycombs - Have I the Right

The Honeycombs was a British pop group from the 1960s . Her best known song is the million seller Have I the Right?

Career

The quintet was founded in 1963 under the name The Sheratons and had a rarity in its ranks for the time: a drummer , Ann Lantree. This gave the band its final name. “Honey” was Ann's nickname, “combs” (combs) was added because she had previously been a hairdresser. This resulted in a play on words, because "Honeycombs" is English for "honeycomb".

In 1964 the group got a record deal, and their first single Have I the Right was successful. It was one of the early works by the successful British team of writers Ken Howard & Alan Blaikley . The overdriven single, which was produced with a lot of overdubbing in the independent recording studios of Joe Meek , reached first place on the charts in Great Britain and later developed into a worldwide million seller after sales of 250,000 copies in Great Britain alone.

When their producer Joe Meek died in 1967 , the group broke up. Martin Murray has now re-cast The Honeycombs (with Lee Howard, Jim Green and Chris Randall, Olli Tooley and Sacha Flory).

Members

  • Denis "D'Ell" Dalziel (vocals, harmonica), born October 10, 1943; † July 6, 2005
  • Martin Murray (guitar), born October 7, 1941
  • Alan Ward (guitar, piano, organ), born December 12, 1945
  • John Lantree (bass), born August 20, 1940
  • Ann "Honey" Lantree (drums), born August 28, 1943; † December 23, 2018

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
1964 The Honeycombs - - US147 (2 weeks)
US

More albums

  • 1965: All Systems - Go!
  • 1966: In Tokyo

Compilations

  • 1989: The Best of the Honeycombs
  • 1990: Honeycombs (All Systems Go and It's the Honeycombs)
  • 1991: The Best of the Honeycombs
  • 1993: The Best of the Honeycombs, produced by Joe Meek
  • 2002: Have I the Right ?: The Very Best of the Honeycombs
  • 2016: 304 Holloway Road Revisited

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
1964 I have the right
 DE21 (5 weeks)
DE 		UK1 (15 weeks)
UK 		US5 (13 weeks)
US
I have the right
 DE21 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -
Is It Because
 - UK38 (6 weeks)
UK 		-
I can't stop
 - - US48 (7 weeks)
US
1965 Something Better Beginning
 - UK39 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
written by Ray Davies
That's the way
 - UK12 (14 weeks)
UK 		-

More singles

  • 1965: This Year Next Year
  • 1965: I Can't Get Through to You
  • 1966: Who Is Sylvia
  • 1966: It's So Hard
  • 1966: That Loving Feeling

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Murrells: Million Selling Records. From the 1900s to the 1980s. An illustrated Directory. Arco Publishing, New York NY 1985, ISBN 0-668-06459-5 , p. 193.
  2. ↑ http://www.thehoneycombs.biz/ The Honeycombs 2011
  3. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK US