Escorts

The Escorts were a Merseybeat band formed in October 1962 in Liverpool, England, by three classmates who had just left the Morrison School for Boys in Rose Lane, Allerton — Mike Gregory, Terry Sylvester and John Kinrade. In 1963, they were voted the ninth most popular group in Liverpool by readers of Mersey Beat magazine from a competitive field of several dozen popular Liverpool bands of the time. 
They originally consisted of:
*Terry Sylvester — guitar/lead vocals (born Terence Sylvester, 8 January 1947, Allerton, Liverpool)
*John Kinrade — lead guitar/vocals (born John Knowles, 25 June 1946, Southport, Lancashire)
*Mike Gregory — bass guitar/vocals (born Michael Gregory, 7 November 1946, Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Kensington, Liverpool)
*Ray Walker — lead vocals
*Johnny Foster — drums; replaced by Pete Clarke (born Peter Gaskell, 1946); replaced by Kenny Goodlass from The Kirkbys; replaced by Pete Clarke; replaced by Tommy Kelly of Earl Preston's Realms; replaced by Paul Comerford of The Cryin' Shames.
The group split in 1966 and Paul McCartney played tambourine on their last record, "From Head to Toe" in 1966.
==Links to Peel==
Peel would sometimes play some of the Escorts material on his programmes, including adding their song, 'The One To Cry', to his Peelenium 1964. He would often boast about the linkage between him and the band via Pete Clarke's (the band's drummer) brother, who was apparently the co-founder of the Dallas County Cricket Club, which JP in his autobiography, Margrave Of The Marshes, claimed to be also a co-founder of, whilst living in America. (In a Sounds column dated 16 March 1974 he mentions that during his time in Dallas, Clarke's "kid brother" was also a rival "Beatle expert", working for another radio station in the city.) Also in the autobiography, Peel's wife, Sheila, mentioned that John thought the band's version of Larry Williams' 'Dizzy Miss Lizzy' eclipsed that of the Beatles and their song, 'The One To Cry', nigh on indispensable.
==Shows Played==
;1972
*21 April 1972: Dizzy Miss Lizzy (single) Fontana
*18 August 1972: The One To Cry (single) Fontana
;thumb|219x219px1983
*You'll Never Walk Alone: The One To Cry (7") Fontana (JP: 'Those were the Escorts and curious enough, one of the very few Liverpool bands with whom I had a direct personal relationship in that the brother of the original members of the band was a fellow member of the Dallas County Cricket Club in which I played in Texas, it's a ten years connection')
;1992
*05 September 1992: 'Dizzy Miss Lizzy (7 inch)' (Fontana)
;1995
*10 February 1995: The One To Cry (7 inch) Fontana (JP: 'About the closest I ever came to Merseybeat really was that I knew the drummer in that band's brother.' )
*07 July 1995: The One To Cry (7 inch) Fontana 
;1999
*27 October 1999: 'The One To Cry (7")' (Fontana) (Peelenium 1964)
== See Also ==
*Sounds
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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