"Nah -- there were always Stan Kelly-Bootle & the Spinners too, you know, Jim."
Stan had disappeared off the scene by the mid-sixties Mike, Bootle never got over the bombing (lived there but was forcibly moved to Finchingfield in Essex to avoid the excesses of the war)
Eternally grateful to the Spinners for introducing me to fpolk song, but, like Topsy, I growed!
"Eleanor Rigby"
We....lll not too bad as songs go - had much more going for it than today's gibberish
Peggy Seeger used it as a basis for one of her songs (All Those Murdered People) for the 1968 Festival of Fools, but was forced to remove it from the programme songbook on the advice of her solicitors - not far enough removed from the original.
One of the oddities of our book collection is the two editions - before and after the page was extracted.
"& Cilla"
You mean Ms. White - nah - you don't count if you change your name apparently!!
Jim Carroll