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Showaddywaddy discography; Studio albums: 14: Live albums: 1: Compilation albums: 22: Singles: 34: Video albums: 4: This article is the discography of British rock ...
Showaddywaddy won one programme on the ATV series New Faces, in November 1973, and were runners-up in the "All Winners Final", which was broadcast on 28 December 1973. They have made nearly 300 television appearances, including their own BBC TV special, Showaddywaddyshow , broadcast between Christmas and New Year in 1980.
In 1976 the song was revived by rock and roll revival act Showaddywaddy and became a major hit in the UK. The Mike Hurst-produced version went on to spend three weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in December that year, [3] and has since sold over a million copies in the UK. [4] It was the band's last song to be released on Bell Records. [5]
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Trevor Oakes (born 9 September 1946) is an English retired Glam rock guitarist and songwriter.. Oakes is best known for being the guitarist and saxophonist for Showaddywaddy, a band he was in from 1973 until 2009.
"Heartbeat" subsequently reached the UK top 10 twice. Firstly in 1975 for Showaddywaddy, number 7 that September, [3] and again in 1992 when Nick Berry's version, recorded as the theme to the television series Heartbeat, in which he starred, reached number 2 that June. [4] Tommy Allsup played the lead guitar part on the recording.
Challenger became one of two drummers (The other being Malcolm Allured) for the rock and roll band Showaddywaddy. [3] Showaddywaddy had ten singles reach the top ten of the UK Singles Chart, including the 1976 number-one "Under the Moon of Love". [5] Showaddywaddy had ten top 10s and one number one in the UK between 1974 and 1982.
Bell Records was an American record label founded in 1952 in New York City by Arthur Shimkin, the owner of the children's record label Golden Records, [1] and initially a unit of Pocket Books, [2] after the rights to the name were acquired from Benny Bell who used the Bell name to issue risque novelty records. [3]