The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58891   Message #934802
Posted By: George Papavgeris
16-Apr-03 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: Review: The Songwainers
Subject: RE: Review: The Songwainers
One of my all time favourite a capella groups! They only produced the one album, as far as I could find out (and I looked extensively for others on the net over the years). I bought it in vinyl some 25 years ago, and it is still one of my prized possessions and firmly in my top 10 albums of all times.

I also saw them live a couple of times in the early seventies. They consisted of Ron taylor (tenor), Dave Stephenson (bass) and Ken Langsbury (one of the richest baritones and the craftsman of their wonderfully "weird" harmonies). Unfortunately Ken died quite a few years ago; so I heard.

I don't know what happened to Dave; but I do know that Ron Taylor joined with Graham and Eileen Pratt and Sue Burgess in 1976, to form "Regal Slip". They in turn produced an album called "Bandstand" in 1981 (again wonderful sound, if a little more "clinical"). Regal Slip restarted touring a couple of years ago, and you can probably catch them at some festival in the UK.