Name: brian croker
Email: b.croker10@btinternet.com
Date: 22 Jul 2010
Comments: Hi, just like to say I have only recently found the site and think it's great. As an "auld stager" myself it's nice to look back over the years and memories. Where the hell have all the years gone? Would like to point out that under "Managers" section Cecil Thompson of CT Promotions was also manager of 1980's country showband American Express, in fact one of his biggest bands at that time. I myself, along with Harry Beckinsale were the two founder members of the band. I would like to send some more info and photos in the near future but in the meantime keep up the good work. I hope you find the above helpful.
Kind regards, Brian Croker.
Name: John McCormack
Email: john.mccormack@gb.abb.com
Date: 21 Jul 2010
Comments: Fantastic website....Certainly brings back many happy memories. Supported a lot of the showbands in the late 60s. Drifters, Freshmen, Miami to name a few....Making our way from Magherafelt all over the country in Easystreet's old Bedford Workabus!! Happy days
Name: Garry Fogarty
Email: garryfogarty@btinternet.com
Date: 18 Jul 2010
Comments: Those were the days!
Name: John Wilson
Email: wilfam@westnet.com.au
Date: 16 Jul 2010
Comments: just discovered u tube, and heard/saw walkin piece .Absolutely perfect.
Name: Mary Schwartz
Email: minimary1@embarqmail.com
Date: 14 Jul 2010
Comments: I'm saddened to report that Michael (Mickey) O'Neill, the drummer with Brendan Bowyer's Big Eight and Royal Irish Showband passed away on June 14, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV. Mickey's ashes will be brought to Ireland by his son, Alan O'Neill, and longtime companion Mary Schwartz. A Mass is scheduled for August 19, 2010 in Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, officiated by Father Brian Darcy.
Name: Jack O'Leary
Email: tarryjack@hotmail.com
Date: 11 Jul 2010
Comments: Great site!. Thought you would like to know that the Dick Whitney Showband was from Wexford .They later became The Visitors Showband. Thought I should tell you that the late Jim Gunner was a recording artist in his own right and released at least two singles in England. before joining Dave Glover and other bands, among them one of Joe Lowney's lineups in
Wexford. The first was called "Hooley Jump" on the Decca label ,followed by "Desperado" which was on Fontana. Although it was never in the top twenty "Hooley Jump" sold a lot of copies .After the Showband scene faded he went into cabaret in the Liverpool area where he died some years ago. He was a great guitarist.
Name: paul condell
Email: paul.condell@hotmail.com
Date: 08 Jul 2010
Comments: Dear sir, can you ask ray lynam was his father in the westmeath fire
service in 1950 please thank you, Paul Condell
Name: Owen Reddy
Email: reddyowen@gmail.com
Date: 07 Jul 2010
Comments: I am trying to record 3 X 2
hour Irish music shows for a radio station, I am looking for help in
finding 60's and early 70's Irish country music , folk music ballads , like cotton mill boys , bill ryan and buckshot , smokey mountain ramblers and other bands like these who may not be around / working today , any help i can get in finding out where i can buy records/cds of this era would be so much appricated . thank you owen
Name: Tom Coughlan
Email: tommuintir@gmail.com
Date: 05 Jul 2010
Comments: Congratulations on a great site, takes us back to a time when we were part of the showband scence. Listening to todays bands brings memories of songs that we did and glad to see that they still live on with the present generation of musicians. Innocent times but...didn't we have fun!!!
Name: breda andjohn kelly
Email: Withheld by request
Date: 04 Jul 2010
Comments: hi to all we uae to dance to the regal showband in seapoint galway wat a faboulas band they had a singer jimmy cotter he was fantastic on stage and a great singer could you tell us what is he doing now great memories and great photos of those fab times keep up the good work cheers to all.breda and john galway
Name: Ewen Campbell
Email: EwenJ.Campbell@yahoo.com
Date: 04 Jul 2010
Comments: T.J. McNamee, the best
guitar player of the decades!
Name: Jim cotter
Email: jimcotter43@.com
Date: 03 Jul 2010
Comments: Great to see the showband photos rembering those great times i sang with the regal showband and jack
Brierley in the 60s. what great memories got bless you. This is a poem i wrote about those great years. its called
The Dancing Years:
When the showbands came to town, to go dancing then was half a
crown. / We would watch Dickie Rock & the Miami too and on stage
came Brendan Bowyer singing the Hucklebuck shoes / The girls would
scream, they were in such pain, and then Butch Moore walked on
singing Walking The Street in the Rain. / We would go to ask a girl
out for a dance, some would scatter, others would still be in a
trance./ The Arcadia was our favourite dance hall, and it was known
world wide by one and all. / Great recording stars played there too
and you would have to be early to join the queue. / All those bands
I did know, I met them all on the Showband Show. / The dancing years
it was special to us, I even remember going to Crosshaven in the
Regal bus. / When the night was over the DJ would say try not to
roam, Good night, God bless and to you all, safe home.
Written by Jim Cotter, ex-Regal showband.
Name: J Boyd
Email: jboydlennon@hotmail.co.uk
Date: 02 Jul 2010
Comments: hi great website. my father who went under the name john richards played sax in the emperors,
Derry. real name jackie boyd played 50 years in the busness until his untimely passing in 2007.jackie boyd r.i.p. if anybody has any old photos or stories would luv to hear from them. hi cheers. keep up the good work with the site
Name: Glen Brown
Email: laharna60s07@yahoo.com
Date: 01 Jul 2010
Comments: Pleased to see this informative site is still active and enjoyed by those at home and numerous ex pats right around the globe. My apologies, I omitted in the HIGH SEAS (LARNE) SHOWBAND. Original line up included old pal Louis Craig (resides Canada). Others that joined the band included Stuart Gillespie, Brian Todd and Merv Allen. Another County Antrim band venue was Smyth's Ballroom, Carnlough.
Name: eddie mcgovern----excarlton productions
Email: mcgovern_5@msn.com
Date: 29 Jun 2010
Comments:
hi dave dont know if your the same guy from years ago . new sound on profile. ed
Name: colm
Email: colmadempsey@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 24 Jun 2010
Comments: you the best band iv ever seen,,thank you many kind regards colm
Name: Roy Stafford
Email: roy@roystafford1.orangehome.co.uk
Date: 24 Jun 2010
Comments: Was once top roadie for Glen Curtin, And a few other Showbands, Now living in LINCOLNSHIRE, UK
Name: Bill Bailey
Email: djbilly54@gmail.com
Date: 18 Jun 2010
Comments: Very Good Web Side Takes Me Back To The Showband Era In Cork City Wondring Can You Help Track Down A LP OR CD By Dickie Rock Called The Wind Will Change Tomrrow Love To Get My Hands On It Thank You Fore The Memories Bill
Name: tony kelly
Email: tckelly00@googlemail.com
Date: 09 Jun 2010
Comments: As a teenager in the 60ts the dixie's were my band of choice watching Joe Mac & his Antics made me want to be a drummer which i did and still play a bit today and Steve Lynch when he played Apache well he was my hero im 60 now but i look at all the old stuff and realise how hard they worked so i could have a few hours of fun i lived in portlaois co laois and my local was Danceland also dreamland in Athy +roseland where ever the Dixies were ,,,best time's of my life tryin to get home in a battered ford Anglia 7 up and all Innocent fun maybe the odd feel of a stocking top if your luck was really in ,,God bless em all ;;;;tony kelly
Name: jill.kane
Email: jill.kane6@btinternet.com
Date: 08 Jun 2010
Comments: HI, My father Syd Bates is featured on your website but I notice that you don't have a photo of him.
I can supply one but could you return it? Jill Kane.
Name: Caroline Creighton
Email: callyx28@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 04 Jun 2010
Comments: Thank you for this great site! Its great to see all the pic's of my Dad, Peter Creighton of the Johnny Flynn Show Band who sadly died early this year. It's great that his grandkids can now see what a big showband was.
Name: Muireann
Email: marsodon@gmail.com
Date: 03 Jun 2010
Comments: Loved the music and
the craic in the Stardust Ballroom, Grand Parade, Cork, and the
Arcadia Ballroom. Music never to be equaled.
Name: jim cotter ex regal showband cork
Email: Email withheld by request
Date: 02 Jun 2010
Comments: great memories of those great showbands and friends keep up the good work god bless. jim
Name: elizabeth moore
Email: elizabethmoore.21@btinternet.com
Date: 25 May 2010
Comments: Hi, very interesting website. Enjoyed reading through. Had trouble though posting request on free forum. I was wondering if you had an email address for Derrick Mehaffey or telephone number. I was wanting to book him for a gig. Many thanks.
Name: David Roberts
Email: david.roberts@3links.mybridge.net
Date: 21 May 2010
Comments: I live in the United States I have had the great blessing of a lifetime I have been to Ireland back in the late 70's and had the privelege to hear the Band CHIPS they were better than Gina Dale Haze known as the Champions > I was wonder hoe to obtain a copy of the Automobile song by CHIPS. My Address is David Roberts 815 Forest Ave Room 11 Northfield Minnesota 55057 U.S.A Thanks
Name: Trevor Kane
Email: trevorskane2005@yahoo.com
Date: 18 May 2010
Comments: the guy with the glasses is not named in photo his name is Dermot Cullen from Rilto
Name: Denis Niblock
Email: thread18@hotmail.com
Date: 27 May 2010
Comments: Looking through your website i seen brian croker of american express . brian and i started a band together in the sixties. it was great to the photo of brian it brought back memories ' your web site is great keep up the good work
Name: elizabeth moore
Email: elizabethmoore.21@btinternet.com
Date: 25 May 2010
Comments: Hi, very interesting website. Enjoyed reading through. Had trouble though posting request on free forum. I was wondering if you had an email address for Derrick Mehaffey or telephone number. I was wanting to book him for a gig. Many thanks.
Name: David Roberts
Email: david.roberts@3links.mybridge.net
Date: 21 May 2010
Comments: I live in the United States I have had the great blessing of a lifetime I have been to Ireland back in the late 70's and had the privelege to hear the Band CHIPS they were better than Gina Dale Haze known as the Champions > I was wonder hoe to obtain a copy of the Automobile song by CHIPS.
Name: Trevor Kane
Email: trevorskane2005@yahoo.com
Date: 18 May 2010
Comments: the guy with the glasses is not named in photo his name is Dermot Cullen from Rilto
Name: Brian Flannagan
Email: brianflannagan@hotmail.com
Date: 15 May 2010
Comments: Congratulations on your brilliant site
Name: david wilson
Email: davidw24uk@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 14 May 2010
Comments: Hi there I would be very grateful if you could tell me where I could find a song by NOEL PENDER." Fin McCool". Not sure on spelling but its for a mates birthday and he can't find it anywhere..i would like to surprise him...David Wilson
Name: Larry Taaffe
Email: cowboylarry981@hotmail.com
Date: 12 May 2010
Comments: hiya all,im looking a copy of jan+the mainliners single, and any material of shellel,hope someone can oblige.many thanks.
Name: charlie o mallley
Email: (Email withheld by request)
Date: 09 May 2010
Comments: my brother Austin passed away
October of last year
(Editor's note: Unfortunately, we do not know what band
Austin played with or when.)
Name: georgie gorman
Email: katemccann1@eircom.net
Date: 08 May 2010
Comments: what a fantastic site ..thank god you guys are holding on to a very importent part of musicical histry . in this country..its not as good as it used to BE ..but who knows histry might come back to the future.we need a new crew to start the ball rooling again.. the country is crying out for the old days .. a bottle of fanta a tiner the parish hall.oh boy we had it made ..but never knew..well done to you all . you made life a lot better for a lot of hard working people..what would life be like without a song or a D A N C E.......god bless and good health.. G GORMAN
Name: Jack McMahon
Email: jackiemac90@eircom.net
Date: 07 May 2010
Comments: I went to dances in the 1940s in Dublin galway arms, AOH The Teachers The Irene etc.
Name: Glenice Seal
Email: (Email address with held by request)
Date: 05 May 2010
Comments: Joy Starr was not the only
Irish person to win opportunity knocks. The Cotton Mill Boys won it three times in1976.
Great site long may it continue.
Name: lyn
Email: sophie54ben@hotmail.co.uk
Date: 05 May 2010
Comments: Hi I am new to this the reason i am here is i am desperate to find looking thru the eyes of a beautiful girl, i love the
Times version 1970, there is a few lines of it by shaw---- cant rember how to spell it (lol) which i have listened to , can any one help please cheers. lyn
Name: Larry Taaffe
Email: cowboylarry981@hotmail.com
Date: 03 May 2010
Comments: Awesome site, well
done. Could anyone get me a copy of Jan and the Mainliners single
please? Many thanks.
(Editor's note: As always, the best way to find old music
is to post a request on our
free
forum.)
Name: pete kinsey
Email: pete_kinsey@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 03 May 2010
Comments: Great to see the Ierne reopening, still miss the showbands, the ballrooms, the crac, had some great times, met some nice people,would love to share memories.
Name: maria ogbuka
Email: m_ogbuka@yahoo.com
Date: 03 May 2010
Comments: i was a ig fsn of dj and the kerryblues in 1970, its sad to hear they are not a band any more, i hope the have a happy life. always think of them and the good old days. maria sweeney
Name: ann cawood
Email: anncawood1@hotmail.co.uk
Date: 28 Apr 2010
Comments: i love county music, i started loving county music from the age of 9 i am now in my 30s and my daughter loves county music.last year we both have seen over 75 diffrent county singers and got there photo and got them to put there name in my daughters book .it was wonderful. i dont know how some people could listen to pop music when county music is out there.
Name: Joe Campbell
Email: joecampbell10@yahoo.ie
Date: 28 Apr 2010
Comments: Hi, just went into Google to see what came up about the Liffey Folk Four. Great to see the photos. Brings back memories of a terrific era in folk music. I know one of the photos was taken up near the Wicklow Gap. Not sure about the other one. Kit Healy is away in the States. Regards, Joe Campbell
Name: Brenda Kiernan Immerschmitt ( Macari )
Email: bpsimmer@bigpond.net.au
Date: 28 Apr 2010
Comments: Please help Is there anybody out there with any information on the late Emilio Macari
Name: Mick gilligan
Email: miceal27@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 27 Apr 2010
Comments: Hi, I played guitar with Royal Showband and later Blue Aces in Waterford many moons ago! The site goes from strength to strength, it's great to scroll through the guest book and read the comments. I wonder if anyone has any info on Steve Lynch, formerly of the Dixies. Best wishes to all.
Name: Brendan Phelan
Email: phelbren@yahoo.ie
Date: 27 Apr 2010
Comments: Recently came across the site. Great to read so many memories of happy, innocent days. The Airchords were my personal favourites. Saw them many times in the early 60s in Our Lady's Hall, Mourne Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12, until I went to Slough. I used to go to London most weekends to see the Irish Showbands. There was a good dancehall in Ealing Broadway which I think was called The Inishfree. Great days to be young. God be with them.
Name: Bryan hand
Email: bhand40@gmail.com
Date: 25 Apr 2010
Comments: Dan O'Hara was a great artist enjoy all his music and songs sorrry to hear he had passed away must have been out of the country at time. I liked the tribute Hennry Mcmahon did to Dano and Declan Nearny does a great job on it. Can you please tell me when Dan died what year when and where and what happened to him just found out recently must have been away was so sorry to hear it i knew him years ago lovely man.
Name: margaret rooney
Email: magkcasey@gmail.com
Date: 24 Apr 2010
Comments: whay did this music have to die well sum one tell me.
Name: caroline walshe
Email: 65@gmail.com
Date: 14 Apr 2010
Comments: delighted ye are back.looking 4 ward 2 this tour.cant wait 4 sun nite.
Name: patsy mc auley
Email: pmcauley@btinternet.com
Date: 14 Apr 2010
Comments: Although we older hands may regret the passing of the showbands,and of many of singers and musicians, the music is in still in good shape and being well cared for by the new younger generation. They know that they owe a lot to those that have gone before,and may they hand the tradition on when the time comes.
Name: frank cassidy
Email: emerald149@gmail.com
Date: 08 Apr 2010
Comments: love the site worked with lot of bands still on rd2day doing sound with stephen smyth band keep up good work if i can help with info glad2help
Name: Willie Deery
Email: williamdeery@hotmail.com
Date: 07 Apr 2010
Comments: loved the showband era, it was very big here in Derry your site is fantastic and congratulations to all concerned in its upkeep
Name: Liam Burke
Email: liamburkeshipping@eircom.net
Date: 06 Apr 2010
Comments: Looking all over Kildare area for Eddie Kelly's book "Irelands Top Ten Hits 1954- 79" and would appreciate any info. where I can purchase.
(Note: We forwarded your query to Eddie who said he will
contact you directly.)
Name: Beckie
Email: beckie-93-@hotmail.com
Date: 05 Apr 2010
Comments: Joy Starr may not have been on the `scene' for very long, but she is the only
Irish person to have ever won Oppertunity knocks so no one can say anthin ha go on Joy (:
Name: Noel Magnier
Email: noel.magnier@gmail.com
Date: 05 Apr 2010
Comments: Hi everybody, greetings from Cork, the "real" Capital. what a wonderful web-site'congrats on a brilliant job. I would like to tell of our campaign in Cork for a showband commemerorative stamp of The Dixies which is currently underway in Cork where in 2007 we had 20 placques of Top Showbands laid on the pavement beside the famous Arcadia Ballroom on the lower glanmire road,directly opposite the railway station. In the sixties i worked in the Arcadia and later i was the Entertainments manager in the Island Room, Moores Hotel which was a very popular Cabaret and Dancing venue and where all the top acts and bands performed. I am currently writing a book on the cabaret scene,i hope to have it out in time for christmas 2010. I am the writer of the book "Is That You Boy !" about growing-up in Cork in the '40s and '50s and i also organise an occasional "Gig". Love and best wishes to all. Noel Magnier.
Name: Garry Fogarty
Email: garryfogarty@btinternet.com
Date: 30 Mar 2010
Comments: Great site, brings back lovely memories of Tipperary and Thurles in particular in the fantastic 60,s
Name: danielle
Email: cwcwhelan38@gmail.com
Date: 26 Mar 2010
Comments: hi ive never knew my father for 25 yrs until recently when i found this website and he was on it. i emailed him and he was delighted i had found him. he was eager to meet up but he was going through treatment for cancer so he wanted to wait until he was feeling better. we emailed quite a bit, the last email i recieved was last october which he said he had been in for treatment the previous day and was normally bad for 2 or3 days but he would be on to me the next day, im still waiting for that email. i never got to meet him and i have very little info about him only his dob and he was living in newry. he told me he was still playing away prior to his treatment with a sax player in a two piece band band called tradewinds. his name is david fleming and he played keyboard. i have no other form of contact for him bar his email address and i dont know whether he has passed away. id be grateful if u could tell me any more or if any members on your site knew him.
(Editor's note: Your best bet to locate band members is
posting a request on our
free
forum.)
Name: H Nelson
Email: hugh.nelson@gmail.com
Date: 26 Mar 2010
Comments: Can anyone tell me is there any cd's of the folk group ( THE LUDLOWS ), I still have a LP of theirs from 1966, but have been unable to find any CD"s. As you can guess I am getting on in age but would still like to find any CD"s they may have. Would be grateful for any help.
(Note: Very few recordings of the showband era ever made
it to CD as there is not enough demand to justify the cost of a CD
release. We're not sure about the Ludlows. Perhaps the best bet is
to post a request on our free forum.)
Name: oliver casserley
Email: olivercasserley@eircom.net
Date: 23 Mar 2010
Comments: Just to mention the passing on of Gerry Davis whose death occured in the past two weeks. Gerry was a member of the Hi-Lows showband. Im sure himself and the late Gentleman John Tighe will be tuning up once again. May they rest in peace.
Name: dance queen
Email: nanno24-7@hotmail.com
Date: 23 Mar 2010
Comments: hi , has anyone got some info on "The Blue Aces" from Waterford, going all the way back to late fifties in particular Tony Walsh, Tony Dalton, seamus carew, they were regulars at the Olympic Ballroom, dublin, Oh and not to forget Charlie Cheevers ,
Name: jean
Email: jean@carers4all.com
Date: 22 Mar 2010
Comments: My self and my friend joan would like to know where did The Farmer Sons band go? We would like to know about Kevin Warren and Ben the rodie. We danced to rhem in The National Ballroom? The Irish Club and The C.Y.M.S kildare? We hope you are all well ,they playedgreat music. Thanks Jean &Joan [we are still dancing]
Name: Michael Fetherston
Email: mickfedo@gmail.com
Date: 22 Mar 2010
Comments: I just came across this page by accident , I have a box full of showband photos collected during the late 60's and 70's. Enjoy looking at them once in a while...a reminder of the good old days in the west of Ireland.
Name: Margaret Nolan (nee Doyle)
Email: magnolirl@eircom.net
Date: 20 Mar 2010
Comments: I have just been remaiscing on you site and low and behold I have come across the Peter Harkin collection. Oh My God I knew Peter Harkin in London in the 70's. Spent a lot of time with his cousins Margaret Maureen and Carol, If you are reading this Peter I love to get in contact. Would love to hear from you MAG
Name: Alan Duggan
Email: eclat50@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 20 Mar 2010
Comments: Many thanks to everyone involved in this site. I am sure my father, the late Gerry Duggan of Brotherly Love/ The Duggan Brothers would be very proud. Thankyou.
Name: Michael Whyte
Email: michael.whyte6@ntlworld.com
Date: 19 Mar 2010
Comments: I heard Larry Cuningham & the Mighty Avons
and Dermot O/Brien and his Clubmen years ago in Glasgow. Can't remeber the venue.I would like to hear them again. I would love it they could play in Glasgow if this possible ?
Your sicerly Michael Whyte
Name: Mel Jones
Email: gentlegems@cfl.rr.com
Date: 18 Mar 2010
Comments: Does anyone have any detailed information on Denis Murray-He was the founder and lead singer of an old band called Murray & Condon ( Successful Irish duo) ? I am supposed to contact him and am having trouble finding anything on him on other sites. Lots on "Condon", but not Murray. He has recorde at Roseland Studios (burnt down?) in Moate County, Westmeath. I am a resident of the USA and do not know all the terminology to find phone numbers and addresses there. I discovered upon researching, that there are thousands of Denis Murrays possibly.
(Editor's Note: As with all queries, your best bet is to
post this request for info on our
free
forum)
Name: vera hayes
Email:
verahayes21@yahoo.com
Date: 15 Mar 2010
Comments: hi can anybody help please. i'm looking for a song recorded by roly
daniels a number of years ago called "My Tennessee Mountain Girl" i
just cant locate it.
Name: Eddie O Leary
Email:
eddieoleary.marhin@hotmail.com
Date: 13 Mar 2010
Comments:
i am looking for members of the regal showband /bantry to contact me
on my fathers behalf, sean o leary an original member, told me that
that the 60th anniversary is coming up and a reunion with surviving
members would be amazing
Name: Gloria W. Hunter
Email:
gloriahunter@gmail.com
Date: 12 Mar 2010
Comments: Your website is excellently done with great information on various
Showbands...present and past. I'm from a tiny island and have
been listening to Joe Dolan since I accidentally heard him singing
via YouTube not too long ago, which is how I found this site. I've
enjoyed reading up on the various artists featured on your site.
Thank you very much!!
Name: laurie mcmullan
Email:
lauriemcmullan@hotmail.com
Date: 11 Mar 2010
Comments: what about the barrelhouse blues band belfast late 60's
Name: oliver casserley
Email:
olivercasserley@eircom.net
Date: 09 Mar 2010
Comments: thanks for all the info. Sadly alot of it concerns the deaths of
"friends" of our dancing and listening days. Thats life. My good
mate and ex-neighbour Glen
Curtin was dead and buried before I heard the sad news.WE lived on
the same road in Grange Abbey. Dublin 5.Beautiful singer-beautiful
man. May he rest in peace. condolences to 'Cepta ,Stephen and the
girls.
Name: helen rafferty
Email:
helen_rafferty22@hotmail.com
Date: 07 Mar 2010
Comments: wondered where mike caine is used to play with larry cunningham and
the country blue boys
Name: Katie Fitzgerald
Email:
catherinefitzgerald25@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 07 Mar 2010
Comments: Hi There, God those photos of Gerry Cronin & The Ohio brought back
memories ,i absolutely adored them as a teenager and hitched lifts
everywhere they were playing I know Gerry is no longer with us
R.I.P. are the Cronin Family still involved in the music all
the best Katie Fitzgerald
Name: KarenGoldbeck (McKenna)
Email: karengoldbeck@hotmail .com
Date: 04 Mar 2010
Comments: Enjoyed the site, trying to find Mary Lou Coleman from the group the
harvest, I am an old school friend living in Canada, last
whereabouts Cookstown for Mary any info appreciated.
Name: Jim Rodden
Email: jim167uk@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 27 Feb 2010
Comments: Hi There, I was wondering if i could buy any of the photos on your Country Bands site I live in Glasgow. Your site is brilliant and a must for
all showband fans. Thanks
(Editor's Note: Hi Jim, Images contributed to the site
belong to the people that owned them, but the copyright is generally
with the photographer and we can not presume to sell their work.
Sorry.)
Name: larry lynch
Email: info@soundhire.ie
Date: 25 Feb 2010
Comments: great to see all the photos .and all the names. still meet a lot of the old crowd they drop into the shop
(soundhire ranelagh) a lot of them doing the odd gig always great to meet up and have a laugh about the good times.
Name: Lorraine O'Sullivan
Email: Loros@eircom.net
Date: 25 Feb 2010
Comments: Hi I am a neice of Arthur O'Neill who played sax with the airchords. I really enjoyed looking through the old photo's of the 60's and 70's.Arthur also played with just four. As I am not of the showband generation I am looking forward to some audio on your site. Do you think there will be some audio of the airchords, my dad Arthur's brother tells me they were fab.
(Editor's note: Our audio collection grows all the time,
albeit slowly. Check back often.)
Name: brigid
Email: brigidw5@optonline.net
Date: 22 Feb 2010
Comments: Really enjoyed seeing
photos of Glen Curtin. What a talented singer. We truly miss him!
Name: Kevin Farrell
Email: kevin.farrell@thestar.ie
Date: 18 Feb 2010
Comments: Enjoyed sifting through the site. Back in the 90's (or maybe late 80's) I did a fairly comprehensive article in Sunday World on the ballrooms under the heading, "What are they now"? I was entertainments manager of The Copper Beech in Edenderry from the night it opened, September 12th, 1972 and just before that I was co-manager of Michael Landers the 5 year old wonderboy who made his first record before making his First Communion. His single was entitled, "If I Could Be A Sailorman". The late great and legendary Dermot O'Brien played on that debut disc. I send greetings to all the people in the business that knew me. Currently recovering from Liver Transplant surgery. God bless.
Editor's Note: Michael Landers was from Kilcullen, Co.
Kildare and his record was released on the Ruby label (catalog
RUB.131) with "The Taxman" on the B-side.
Name: fran carson nee stokes
Email: fran.carson@ntlworld.com
Date: 13 Feb 2010
Comments: Hi Guys, How is life? It's a long time since Stockwell, how are you all. Tom carey is fine was unwell some time ago. Love the site must come and see you love to allxx. Fran
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Name: peggy & Seamus Meehan Mountcharles
Email: shamrockpeg@msn.com
Date: 13 Feb 2010
Comments: Wonderful to see the showband scene on the world wide net. We can remember fun times. Lots of good memories.
Name: patrick11
Email: patrickmangan1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 11 Feb 2010
Comments: There was somebody enquiring about Mary
Clifford. I know she lived in Las Vegas, NV for a while and she was in Brendan
Bowyer's band. She could live part of the year in Dalkey outside Dublin now .She probably has a home also in Las
Vegas.
Name: Ernie Lucas
Email: erniel@btinternet.com
Date: 11 Feb 2010
Comments: Love this site, brings back great memories when I was with the Federals
Name: breda delaney
Email: bredadelaney@hotmail.com
Date: 10 Feb 2010
Comments: I would love to get a copy of spotlight 1966 with Joe Dolan on the cover . I was a great Spotlight and New Spotlight fan but did not keep my now treasured magazines my mother must have thrown then out . She is now 88 years old and denies having been the culprit. which goes to show that we all blame our parents for just about everything if i could get a copy i would be so happy can anyone advise me where to try for same Thanking You Breda
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Name: Katie O' Leary
Email: kswol@live.com
Date: 07 Feb 2010
Comments: The piano player in the Dixies was my grandad his name was Finbar O' Leary. I barley remember him because he died when I was four years old. I miss him and nana Carrie very much. I listen to the Dixies sometimes and I can hear my grandad playing the piano in the backround but then I start to cry because I miss him so much. I think one of the songs they wrote was names after me ebcause my name is Katie and they wrote a song called "Katies Kisses". I will always love the
Dixies and i miss my grandad so much.
Name: Harry
Email: hockedy@hotmail.com
Date: 05 Feb 2010
Comments: Doing a radio programme on the showbands and that era and i would like to obtain any recordings of The Clipper Carlton Showband. Can anybody help?
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Name: Sister Joan
Email: annette_maguire@hotmail.com
Date: 02 Feb 2010
Comments: hello there the page is brilliant keep up the good work
Name: tommy coyne
Email: 20@yahoo.ie
Date: 31 Jan 2010
Comments: hi i like yr site very much i was part of showband era from 70 s on had a great time in alot of different bands played guitar vocals in all of them a lot of the bands were breaking up here and there at the time if you played good and sang well then you were in bands i was with to name a few were monaco majorca giants airliners hoot nannys loved every minute toured england scotland lenght breath of ireland with hootnannys the last hoot nannys band was when the miami showband were murderd we disbanded some time after that actually on that same night we were not to long behind them god bless them hope you took the time to read text and thank you
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Name: niall j grace
Email: nialljosephgrace@gmail.com
Date: 31 Jan 2010
Comments: As im not a master of the internet
I would love if you made the site somewhat easier to access different sections, otherwise a-ok.
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Name: kevin carton
Email: kevinjcarton@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 31 Jan 2010
Comments: looking for any up and coming dates for showbands era as for the rest of the site great looking back loved hearing and reading about the show bands loved ronan collins shows thanks
Name: therese pavlovic
Email: tree1979@hotmail.co.uk
Date: 30 Jan 2010
Comments: Hello, just wondering, my father David Murphy played with the
Swing Commandos and from my own experience was band leader at some time. Jim Cantwell was also band leader, so bit confusing. Does anyone have any information on the band or my dad? Would love to hear from you.
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Name: Margaret & Steve Wasbotten
Email: paddyriley1948@talktalk.net
Date: 30 Jan 2010
Comments: To Tony Hughes & Charlie Arkins. Remember the good times on the American
Bases? The food was great & the drink was exceptional. Write & let us know how you are
doing. We are living in Lakenheath, near RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk. Regards, Margaret & Steve
Name: Billy O'Keefe
Email: okeeffebilly@hotmail.com
Date: 29 Jan 2010
Comments: any photos or news on the partners waterford thanks billy
Name: Katie O' Leary
Email: katie.oleary@hotmail.com
Date: 28 Jan 2010
Comments: Fantastic site. cant wait for the audio samples to be posted. I have printed pictures of the Dixies (grandad John Sheehan) from the site to put in picture frames, so proud! RIP pops. Love you x
Name: Colette Mc Devitt
Email: colette_mcdevitt@hotmail.com
Date: 28 Jan 2010
Comments: Just came across this great website while looking on the internet for any info on The Melody Swingtette, the band my father Frankie Mc Devitt was a member of in the 50's. Sadly, Dad died suddenly on 5th Dec '09 and we would dearly love if anyone with any old photos or recordings of the band would get in touch. Paddy, his brother, played in the band too and then went on to form his own band The Northern Lights, with which he had a hit with Little Isle Of Green. Any info would be much appreciated and you can email me at the address above . Thanks!
Name: Glen Brown
Email: laharna60s07@yahoo.com
Date: 27 Jan 2010
Comments: Good Site, looking forward to ROI 2010 special stamp issues featuring Irish Showbands. Is Irish- Showbands. com issuing their "Irish Showbands" First Day Cover?
Name: Martin Greenman
Email: marting42@tiscali.co.uk
Date: 24 Jan 2010
Comments: Excellent website. Interesting reading about the Miami showband and in The Sands. My uncle is Murty Quinn. Slan
Name: paddyfitz
Email: fitz_paddy@yahoo.com
Date: 23 Jan 2010
Comments: the madotors i lived in belfast with danny maitlaind on the shore road he and jonnie morgan and a friend billy played on the shankill rd on sat on sun the played in the falls rd great guys
Name: Lilian
Email: sophiamud@gmail.com
Date: 22 Jan 2010
Comments: I have just discovered your site. What happy memories it brings back.I danced my way through the sixties and seventies and to most of the showbands both big named ones nationally and the local ones in Cork. the dance halls like the"Arcadia" in Cork and the "Majorca" in Crosshaven, the "Showboat" in Youghal, all of the big bands played those venues.Sometimes the warm up bands were every bit as good as the headliners, somestimes even better.I married a man named Paddy, who played with The Diplomats they were a great local band who played all over the country.
Name: debbbie white
Email: debbiedoyle259@hotmail.com
Date: 22 Jan 2010
Comments: my grandfather was johnny barton he was a drummer with dermot o'brien's clubmen, some of the phot's thast are up on this sit are great, i hadn't seen them before..
Name: Edel Healy
Email: edelhealy@gmail.com
Date: 22 Jan 2010
Comments: Willie Healy on trumpet with Dermot O Brien and the Club Men is my father. Fantastic pictures of him. 77 years of age and still playing better than ever. He always talks about the good old days with Dermot. I'm very proud of what he has achieved in his life. I just wish we had more photo's and albums of them as a group...... Great web site
Name: hucklebuckgirl
Email: 3beaustreet@gmail.com
Date: 21 Jan 2010
Comments: does anyone know anything about ,Liam McKenna> . Liam played with the Creatures and we were good friends.
Name: Vera Hayes
Email: verahayes21@yahoo.com
Date: 21 Jan 2010
Comments: Can anybody tell me
where I would get hold of music of Maxi, Dick and Twink...as I do a
radio show and would love to get some of their music out on my
show...please
Name: Mary
Email: maryshorten@hotmail.co.uk
Date: 19 Jan 2010
Comments: Came across your site by accident so glad i did, i am from the showband era of the 60s, dancing to all the big showbands in the Harp & Shamrock in Birmingham England what a magical time it was there will be nothing like that time again, the young generation of today does not know what they have missed. Keep up the good work so us oldies can relive our youth with reading about the bands. I am back living in Ireland now. Mary.
Name: pat carolan
Email: patcarolan7@gmail.com
Date: 18 Jan 2010
Comments: First class website
which brings back a lot of memories. The talent we had in Ireland
was fantastic, no matter what type of music you liked. As time moves
on we lose some of the great ones, like Joe Dolan, Brendan O'Brien
and many more but with sites like this they will never be forgotten.
Keep up the great work.
Name: Helen Conroy Noonan
Email: Helenconroy9@hotmail.com
Date: 17 Jan 2010
Comments: Great Web Site. I am looking for Amercian Country music singers/bands in Ireland. Other than the Great Robert Mizzell & The Country Kings of course. Can you help Please. Regards Helen.
Name: Vera Lane
Email: lane.vera@yahoo.com
Date: 13 Jan 2010
Comments: hi would anybdy know where i could get the song perly shells by john frawley.. i loved the monachs showband. best regards. vera lane curragh castlemahon county limerick
Name: nicola crean
Email: nicola.crean@gmail.com
Date: 13 Jan 2010
Comments: just stumbled across this site, johnny crean the drummer in the new fairways was my grandad, he was killed in a car accident long before i was born........ it was good to see him feature on this site and see how well known he was....... and it was great to learn more about him and what he used to do! Its the first time iv seen any pictures of him in his band and i have you guys to thank for that
Name: Annette Maguire
Email: annette_maguire@hotmail.com
Date: 11 Jan 2010
Comments: I really enjoy scrolling through the guestbook and catching up on the bands and looking at the photographs of the band lead singers that I remember when I went to local dance halls back home. Some of my favourites were Dermot Hegarty, Gene Stuart, Brian Coll and Hugo Duncan to name but a few.
This site is a lovely way to go back over the memories of the past and in recent years I have made a point of going to hear newly formed showbands and still enjoy the music I grew up with. A big thank you to all those boys and girls who have entertained us down through the years. Keep up the great work
Name: Vera Draper (McGrath)
Email: ireneaburden@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 10 Jan 2010
Comments: Frankie was a neighbour and a friend for many in years In Tuam of Johnny Flynn Band, Myself and my husband danced with them all over Ireland and Coventry. Fond memories. Vera
Name: alfie (marty) walsh
Email: alfredwalsh@hotmail.com
Date: 10 Jan 2010
Comments: Just found your site
think its brill. Its great to see some old friends from my showband
days emailing in. I played in the group days with Wenton Feill and
the L Tones. Billy Harrison was lead, Tiger Taylor rhythm, Billy
went on to VM and Them. I went to the Regency Showband, The Carling
Showband, Billy McFarland and finished my music days with 16 years
in the Beachcombers with Billy Grey (ex-Grenadiers) and Vaughn Byrne
(ex-Federals and the Jimmy Johnston Showband).
Name: alex clark
Email: alexclark34@gmail.com
Date: 10 Jan 2010
Comments: I played sax with Aesops Fables and they were ahead of that time, plus The Greenbeats, and other bands. UK - USA and around the world.
Name: Mary Shorten
Email: maryshorten@hotmail.co.uk
Date: 10 Jan 2010
Comments: First of all my deepest sympathy on the tragic death of your son. This is my first visit to the website and i am so pleased that i have found it, been looking at the showbands from the 60s my era and brings back a lot of memories all good well most of them anyway. It is lovely to see what has happened to the bands & some of the members.I used to live in Birmingham & Coventry England and went to see all the bands.I still go to see Larry Cunningham and any of the bands when i can as I am living in Dublin now.I will keep looking for the updates to see what has happened to some of the members (ie) Jimmy Smith of Mighty Avon's fame & Jim McManus from the Dave Glover showband.
Name: carole wallace
Email: bighdeirgh@hotmail.com
Date: 09 Jan 2010
Comments: for the attention of pauldegi you will get this info
from either louie walsh the manager of chips or linda martins who sang with chips either will be able to help you hope this helps you
Name: Ed Keating
Email: eddiekeating@msn.com
Date: 08 Jan 2010
Comments: Hello! I was delighted to visit your fab site and see some of the showband photos and history of the various bands-especially the '70s era. I played with four bands which toured the circuit in Ireland from June '77 to Dec., '79, namely: Gimik, Lucky Numbers, Magic and Maurice Mulcahy. I hope you succeed in continuing to maintain this site and, possibly add to it in the near future. Regards, Ed Keating
Name: Mary Mc Carthy
Email: mmccarthy@midlandbandages.com
Date: 07 Jan 2010
Comments: Where is Aidan @ George now they played with Doc Carroll in 1974-1978 approx. Cannot remember second names.
Name: Liam Ralph
Email: willie.ollie@hotmail.com
Date: 06 Jan 2010
Comments: I have great memories of Tommy Drennan and The Monarchs playing The Premier, Thurles,late sixties, Boolavogue was a classic, I also recall John Frawley singing a good version of Pearly Shells, I thinks Boolavogue should be re-released on a cd with the best of Tommys other hits Little Boy Lost etc; bound to be a popular choice.
Name: pauldegi
Email: degipaul@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 04 Jan 2010
Comments: I wonder does anyone
know where i can get hold of the Band CHIPS recorded music or is
there any on cd, I hope someone knows ,they were fantastic.happy new
year.
Name: wendy reid
Email: wendyreid@musician.org
Date: 03 Jan 2010
Comments: I am Australian and
remember Alex Burns from the Witnesses (guitarist) when he retired
to live in the northern Sydney suburb of Narrabeen back in late
70's. He and my dad teamed up to do a jazz fiddle/guitar duo as my
dad was a violinist. I recall Alex showing me and dad a photo of him
with Elvis Presley when he played backings with Elvis in Las Vegas
in the early 70's. Last I heard he was doing freelance gigs around
Sydney and still lived in Narrabeen into the 80's. He was living
with his wife at that time. Hope anyone finds this little bit of
trivia interesting!
Name: Tina kavanagh
Email: tinakav@eircom.net
Date: 02 Jan 2010
Comments: fab website. could you tell me if you have a poster
of American Pie in the 1980's. My late husband Sean Mcormick played
in the band,also in the silver pennies in the 1970's. keep up the
good work. look forward from hearing from you. regards Tina.
Name: Nicole de Miscault
Email: njbecker@free.fr
Date: 02 Jan 2010
Comments: I am looking for a
showband from galway : the philosophers, I am looking John
Grant , I am french and I knew him in 1967 in Galway , university
road, thanks
Name: orlasweeney
Email: orlasweeney30@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 31 Dec 2009
Comments: hi sandy kelly orla
sweeney here love your show on monday in the regency hotel
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