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The Big Three (The Complete Recordings)
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Conocidos en sus primeros pasos como Cass and The Casanovas con el cantante Brian Casser a la cabeza, para luego transformarse a principio de la década como The Big Three, su cantante principal se había alejado y se constituyeron como un trío The Big Three fue en su primeros días un grupo con mucho ruido a pesar de sus pocos integrantes. Así definiría a esta banda de Liverpool, que bajo la tutela de Brian Epstein se enfocaban hacía una prometedora carrera pero como tantísimas bandas de entonces quedaron a medio camino, no por poca calidad, sino la vorágine de aquéllos días hacía que aparecieran y desaparecieran por doquier. Hoy con un nombre y mañana con otro. The Big Three estaba formada por: Adrian Barber (Guitarra) sustituido rápidamente por Brian Griffiths (Voz y Guitarra) Johnny Gustafson (Voz y Bajo) y Johnny Hutchinson (Batería y Voz). En 1962 harían una audición para el sello DECCA luego de su estadía en Alemania y graban un demo (Some Other Guy) que se transformó en su primer sencillo (Some Other Guy/Let True Love Begin) y llegó hasta el puesto número #37 en los charts. En 1963 lanzarian al mercado dos 45's más (By The Way/Cavern Stomp) que treparía hasta el puesto número #22 y (I'm With You/Peanut Butter) que no entraría en las listas. Sus shows en los clubes eran de calidad y tenían una muy buena reputación, pero lamentablemente jamás pudieron trasladar el gran sonido que tenían sus presentaciones en vivo al vinilo. En 1963 lanzan un Ep (The Big Three At The Cavern) que hoy es una pieza de colección, ellos tenían una gran cantidad de material grabado de sus presentaciones pero lamentablemente DECCA borró la cinta por error y en este álbum se puede escuchar todo lo que sobrevivió más unas grabaciones echas en esta época. En 1964 harían otro intento con el sencillo (If You Ever Change Your Mind/You've Got To Keep Her Under Hand) que tampoco tendría suerte y así de a poco la carrera de estos chicos se fue apagando. Luego de idas y venidas con sus integrantes que fueron cambiando a medida que avanzaban, algunos emigraron a otras bandas con mayor suerte y otros formaron sus propios grupos para desaparecer por completo. Aquí esta su material para desmenuzar y conocer más sobre los primeros años de la música beat....Bring It On Home To Me..Yeah!

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many thanks for this mr roadrunner
Enjoy friend!
thank you
Thank you for sharing
Enjoy Jon
Thank you so " Roadrunner"
All the best, Albert
I saw The Big Three, years ago in Liverpool, this band had a very good live reputation
They played with 3, but for sure ,one of the loudest on there live performances !!
Here more info about this UK band
The Big Three
Personnel:
ADRIAN BARBER ld gtr A B
JOHNNY GUSTAFSON bs, vcls A B E
JOHNNY HUTCHINSON drms A B C D
BRIAN GRIFFITHS gtr, vcls B E
PADDY CHAMBERS bs, vcls C
BILL FARON gtr, vcls C D
PAUL PILNICK D
NIGEL OLSSON drms E
45s:
1 Some Other Guy/Let True Love Begin (Decca F 11614) 1963 37
2 By The Way/Cavern Stomp (Decca F 11689) 1963 22
3 I'm With You/Peanut Butter (Decca F 11752) 1963 -
4 If You Ever Change Your Mind/You've Got To Keep Her Under Hand (Decca F 11927) 1964 -
5 Some Other Guy/Let It Rock/If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody (Polydor 2058 343) 1973 -
The group was earlier known as Cass and The Casanovas when it was fronted by lead singer and rhythm guitarist Brian Casser back in 1959. Casser was a poor singer and the other members soon ousted him. He left to form Casey Jones and The Engineers (who briefly included Eric Clapton in their line-up). Later he became a TV actor and fronted another group Casey Jones and The Governors, which worked in Germany with some success.
Meanwhile back on Merseyside The Casanovas became The Big Three and soon established a good reputation as a live act playing loud R&B material with Hutchinson's unusually raucous drumming for the times. They often backed local solo singers like Cilla Black.
Their live sound is captured best on their Live At The Cavern EP, which is their most collectable disc. It features covers of Ray Charles' What'd I'd Say, Chuck Berry's Reelin' And Rockin', Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and the group's own song Don't Start Running Away. They also recorded another live set at The Oasis Club in Manchester, but it never made it onto vinyl.
Eventually Brian Epstein dropped them from his management because of their wild behaviour! They moved to another agency but their original line-up split in November 1963 and it was left to Johnny Hutchinson to put together a new line-up with Faron (of Faron's Flamingoes) and another Flamingo member Paddy Chambers. The new line-up (C) recorded a live version of You Better Move On for the Live At The Cavern album. Chambers and Hutchinson didn't get on and Chambers left after a few months. He later joined The Dominoes (Kingsize Taylor's backing band) before forming Paddy, Klaus and Gibson. He was replaced by Paul Pilnick (formerly of Lee Curtis and The All Stars, he was later in Stealer's Wheel). This line-up (D) recorded a version of Sam Cooke's Bring It On Home To Me entitled If You Ever Change Your Mind, which was a good arrangement and their only disc to feature strings. Neither this or Sam Cooke's original version made the UK Charts, though The Animals later had a hit with it in 1965.
By 1964 The Big Three had split for good. By then Johnny Gustafson had joined The Merseybeats. He also released two solo 45s for Polydor in 1964 and 1965. Then in 1965 he worked briefly with Brian Griffiths as The Johnny Gus Set. Later in 1973 the two teamed up again with Nigel Olsson of Elton John's band and using The Big Three name recorded an album, Resurrection. It didn't sell and afterwards Brian Griffiths emigrated to Canada and Johnny Gustafson returned to his career as a session musician. His credits include albums with Roxy Music, Ian Hunter, Gene Pitney and Shirley Bassey. He was also on the original album cast of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Back in 1964 the band had one cut, Bring It On Home To Me, on Decca's At The Cavern (LP) compilation. In 1985 See For Miles reissued this compilation on vinyl with The Big Three At The Cavern EP added to it, and again in 1994 on CD as Live At The Cavern.
Thank you so much Albert!
Uno de mis grupos favoritos de Beat, que pena que se borrase esa cinta que dices. Por cierto Johnny Hutchinson fue batería de los "Silver Beatles" cuando el amigo Stu Sutcliffe estaba de bajista del grupo. Por ahí hay una foto donde aparece aporreando los tambores. http://www.dmbeatles.com/picture.php?picture=609
Top!
Thank you very much.
¿Puedes ponerlo en flac? Gracias.
Si, pero no tengo buena conexión para subirlo.
¿Has probado subirlo por Mega?
Si has revisado el blog veras que probe con todos, estoy muy lejos de la ciudad, así que donde estoy todos los pobladores tenemos una señal bastante pobre. hay discos que tarde horas en subirlos, así que es lo que hay. Saludos
Would you please Re-Upload this album?
Thanks
Jim
jwitty@sympatico.ca
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