Edited sentence: A few weeks later I was in Arbroath and met the lady agent (Dorothy Solomon), and the three boys whose names were John Stokes, Dec and Con Cluskey.During the next eight or nine weeks that followed the boys spent every moment of every day working out and perfecting their interpretation of the song, so that when they eventually recorded “Charmaine” at a test it turned out so well that they found themselves with a recording contract.I had been on many goose chases throughout the years, so I figured one more wouldn’t hurt.I left Arbroath the next day having promised my four new friends that when summer was over we would make a test recording tape with the boys singing “Charmaine” at our studios in London.I wondered if they could handle songs with a more general appeal, and which song I could suggest for them to learn for a recording test.In his sleeve notes accompanying the 1964-released Decca album “The Bachelors + 16 Great Songs”, Dick Rowe recalled his discovery of the band thus: ‘Early in the summer of 1962 a young lady called me from Belfast, Northern Ireland, saying the she had a mouth-organ act called The Harmonichords appearing for the summer at Arbroath, a small seaside town in Scotland.I’m sure you all know the fame and fortune that has come their way since then.Just about the most important Decca record of all time is Mantovani’s “Charmaine”, so I thought “why not a vocal version.Rowe concluded ‘When their recording of “Charmaine” was released by Decca on December 13, 1962, you met The Bachelors for the first time, and it seemed that Dorothy Solomon’s faith and belief in them had been so right.Rowe continued ‘It is difficult to think back two years with great accuracy, but I do recall quite clearly that I liked their singing very much.She asked me to meet her there during the season to see the boys, who sang in addition to playing.The boys’ act consisting of nearly sixteen minutes of mouth-organs didn’t leave too much of an impression, however they did sing a couple of Irish folk songs.The record was a best-seller both here in the UK and in America