waiT not me mentioning a long distance relative and forgetting my Granddad (and his band, he was the drummer) were on the brink of success way back when!
The Red Hawks played The Kinema Ballroom 563 times between 1959 & 1967! They made several radio broadcasts and appeared on television too. They also held residencies at the Cowdenbeath 'Palais de Dance' on Saturdays and Lochore Welfare Institute on Sundays for more than five years. While their regular repertoire consisted of some 25 of the current top 30 and three or four new songs had to be learned every week, they were said to be capable of playing for over four hours without repeating any material!
After recording a couple of songs in the Kinema, they then recorded two singles: 'The Highland Twist' / 'Mods and Rockers' in 1964 (both tracks written by the band members and produced more or less privately) & the Manny Charlton penned ‘Friday Night’ / ’Lonely Boy’ (ALP 595001) [misspelled 'The Red Hawkes' on the label] at the International Broadcasting Company in London in 1966 which charted at #37 on Radio London's Fab Forty show on Sunday 19th June 1966 (presented by Tony Blackburn). The 'A' side was written by Manny Charlton while the flip was the work of Alex Smith. It was recently seen for sale for £40 on a web site.
'Friday Night' was played 12 times a day for eight weeks on the pirate Radio stations Radio Caroline Radio Scotland & Radio London and they were supported by the then Kinema's owners.
Yeah! I've never met Sofia though, my mom toured Europe with her for a month a loooong time ago. And I'm not as close with Camila ever since she got famous...we text every now and then though
Yeah! I've never met Sofia though, my mom toured Europe with her for a month a loooong time ago. And I'm not as close with Camila ever since she got famous...we text every now and then though
no way!
