Ken Williams (composer)
Ken Williams( born 1952 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian musician and composer, and the current mayor of Highlands, British Columbia as of December 2014.
In his career as a musician, Williams played with The New Vaudeville Band, the Dixon House Band and Zipper, and was a studio bassist at Mushroom Studios in Vancouver.
He was nominated for a Video Premiere Award for Best Composer for" The Crimson Code".
His other composing credits include" In the Company of MenSo Weird The Magician's HousePolice Academy" and" Two of Hearts".
The Palm Beach Band Boys
The Palm Beach Band Boys was a studio recording group ostensibly assembled by RCA Victor to capitalize on the success of The New Vaudeville Band's hit single," Winchester Cathedral".
They performed in a style for which the New Vaudeville Band's promoters coined the term," newstalgia", a kind of faux 1920s/ 1930s sound, featuring nasal vocals, banjo, brass, electric guitar, rock drums, and bassoon.
( Mort Goode uses the term in his liner notes for their first album.)
According to a December 1966" TIME" article, the vocalist is actually" an RCA executive who croons while holding his nose."
Geoff Stephens
Geoffrey' Geoff' Stephens( born 1 October 1934) is an English songwriter and record producer, most prolific in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s.
He wrote a long series of hit records, often in conjunction with other British songwriters including Tony Macaulay, John Carter, Roger Greenaway, Peter Callander, Barry Mason, Ken Howard, Alan Blaikley, Don Black, Mitch Murray, and Les Reed.
He also formed The New Vaudeville Band, and their song" Winchester Cathedral" won Stephens the 1966 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary( R&R) Recording.
Mellow Yellow
" Mellow Yellow" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer- songwriter Donovan.
In the US it reached No. 2 on the" Billboard" Hot 100 in 1966.
( Both" Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys and" Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band kept it from hitting No. 1.)
Outside the US," Mellow Yellow" peaked at No. 8 in the UK in early 1967.
The Palm Beach Band Boys
The Palm Beach Band Boys was a studio recording group ostensibly assembled by RCA Victor to capitalize on the success of The New Vaudeville Band's hit single," Winchester Cathedral".
They performed in a style for which the New Vaudeville Band's promoters coined the term," newstalgia", a kind of faux 1920s/ 1930s sound, featuring nasal vocals, banjo, brass, electric guitar, rock drums, and bassoon.
( Mort Goode uses the term in his liner notes for their first album.)
According to a December 1966" TIME" article, the vocalist is actually" an RCA executive who croons while holding his nose."
Sykur
Sykur(" Sugar" in Icelandic) is an Icelandic band, which was founded in 2008.
" Mesópótamía", released in Iceland in 2011, saw the band develop their much- loved electro sound.
Their single is" Curling", remixed by Dan Le Sac and Database.
Alan Klein
Alan Klein( born Alan Charles Klein, 29 June 1940) is an English singer- songwriter and musician.
He wrote the soundtrack for the stage play and film," What a Crazy World"( 1963).
In 1964, he released his only solo album," Well At Least It's British", that was re-released in 2008 by RPM Records.
Klein was born in Clerkenwell, London.
Many of his recordings were made with the record producer, Joe Meek.
In 1966 he went on tour as lead vocalist of The New Vaudeville Band.
Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band
Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band, also billed as Bob Kerr and His Whoopee Band, is a jazz band which started in 1967 and continues to perform today.
It was an offshoot of the eclectic Bonzo Dog Doo- Dah Band, and shared many similarities with other outfits of the time such as The New Vaudeville Band and The Temperance Seven.
Kerr was a member of both the Bonzos and the New Vaudeville Band.
By 1971, for the album" Making Whoopee", the band's membership consisted of Bob Kerr, Vernon Dudley Bohay Nowell, Sam Spoons, James Chambers, John" Evil Gieves" Watson, Biff Harrison, Franklin Tomes and David Glasson.
In 1976, for the album" The Whoopee Band", the membership consisted of Evil John Gieves Watson( banjo), Vernon Dudley Bohay Nowell( tenor banjo), Biff Harrison, David Glasson( piano), Jim" Golden Boots" Chambers, Bob Kerr For an August 1977 gig, the membership consisted of Bob Kerr- Trumpet, Trombone, Vernon Dudley Bowhay- Nowell- Banjo," Gentleman Frankie" Tooms- Sousaphone, Sam Spoons- Drums," Evil John" Gieves Watson- Banjo, Biff Harrison- Clarinet, Saxophone, Jim" Golden Boots" Chambers- Saxophone, David" Mr. Piano" Glasson- Piano.
In 1978, for the" Hard Pressed" album, the membership consisted of Bob Kerr( cornet), Jim" Golden Boots" Chambers( alto sax), Vernon Dudley Bohay Nowell( tenor banjo)," Evil" John Gieves Watson, Biff Harrison, David Glasson( piano), Sam Spoons( drums) and Frank Tooms In 1981, for the" Things That Go Bump in the Mike" album, the membership consisted of Bob Kerr, Jim Chambers, Vernon Dudley Bohay Nowell, Biff Harrison, Sam Spoons, Hugh Crozier( piano) and Frank Tooms.
Two years later, the band split with Biff Harrison, Sam Spoons, Jim Chambers and John Gieves Watson moving off to the Bill Posters Will Be Band.
This band continue with Megs Etherington and another former Whoopee member, Peter Shade.
By the time of a 1987 performance in Germany, the Whoopee Band consisted of Bob Kerr- tuba, Vernon Dudley Bowhay- Nowell- banjo, Richard White- clarinet, Hugh Crozier- piano, Frank Tomes- sousaphone and Colin Bowden- drums Members of Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band are Bob Kerr, John
" The Professor" Percival, Malcolm Sked, Bert Lamb and Henri Harrison.
The New Vaudeville Band
The New Vaudeville Band was a group created by songwriter Geoff Stephens in 1966 to record his novelty composition" Winchester Cathedral", a song inspired by the dance bands of the 1920s and a Rudy Vallee megaphone- style vocal.
To his surprise, the song became a transatlantic hit that autumn, reaching the Top 10 in the United Kingdom and rising to# 1 in the United States.
The record sold over three million copies worldwide, earning the RIAA certification of gold disc status.
The track also won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song in 1967.
The lead vocal was sung by John Carter, formerly of The Ivy League, who had sung on the demo of the song, which Stephens decided to keep for the commercial release.
An initial long- playing album was also issued in late 1966 by Fontana Records, also titled" Winchester Cathedral".
When Stephens received several requests for the New Vaudeville Band to tour, he had to put together a group, for the song had been recorded by session musicians hired only for the recording.
He contacted the Bonzo Dog Doo- Dah Band, which played similar music at the time.
Only Bob
Kerr from that group was interested, so he left the Bonzos in order to help Stephens form a touring version of The New Vaudeville Band, which included original session drummer Henri Harrison.
The lead singer of the touring version of the group was Alan Klein, who was billed as' Tristram- Seventh Earl of Cricklewood'.
In 1967, the New Vaudeville Band released the" On Tour" album, along with the single" Peek- A- Boo", which made the" Billboard" chart that February and reached No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart.
Further UK hits followed with" Finchley Central"( No. 11) and" Green Street Green"( No. 37), both based on locations in London.
The New Vaudeville Band was managed by Peter Grant.
Kerr left the group following disputes with Grant; he then formed his own group, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band, which continues to perform with Henri Harrison.
A further privately released album(" While We Are All Assembled!") did not bear a date but was apparently released in 1979, and stated in the sleeve notes that the band" have firmly re-established themselves in the higher echelons of the British club scene" since returning four years previously from" their successful three years in the USA and Canada".
New Vaudeville
New Vaudeville was a movement of loosely associated acts during the 1970s and 1980s who drew on the traditions of vaudeville and carnivals.
Acts associated with the movement included Bill Irwin, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Trav S.D., and Avner the Eccentric.
The clown Bob Berky described the New Vaudeville as" theater with the fourth wall down" as performers tend to address the audience from the beginning of a performance and to draw members onto the stage as participants.
Penn& Teller were often included in discussions of the New Vaudeville, a connection they flatly rejected, Penn Jillette referring the New Vaudevillians as" a bunch of aging hippies looking at old pictures of W. C. Fields."

Question: Did the bands The New Vaudeville Band and Sykur, originate from the same country?
Answer: no