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The New Vaudeville Band initially was a studio group composed of session players, but Stephens quickly assembled a permanent group to continue recording and to play live shows. The group has been periodically revived since, without Stephens' participation. The New Vaudeville Band placed several singles in the US and UK Top 40 through 1967.
"Winchester Cathedral" is a song by the New Vaudeville Band, a British novelty group established by the song's composer, Geoff Stephens, and was released in late 1966 by Fontana Records. It reached number 1 in Canada on the RPM 100 chart, co-charting with the Dana Rollin version, [5] and shortly thereafter in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 ...
He was originally a member of Spencer's Washboard Kings in 1965 and during 1966 he was a member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. In September 1966, he was persuaded by Geoff Stephens to join The New Vaudeville Band, before forming his own combo, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band. Kerr was a part of a reunited Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band line-up of surviving ...
In 1966 he formed The New Vaudeville Band, writing and recording songs in a 1920s musical style. [1] Their debut single "Winchester Cathedral" was a No. 1 hit in the List of Billboard number-one singles and No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart, [10] and covered by others including Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra, and The Firehouse Five Plus Two. It was ...
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 .
He found a new songwriting partner in Geoff Stephens, resulting in "My World Fell Down", recorded by The Ivy League, [12] later to be covered by Gary Usher's Sagittarius [13] and Dutch band The Buffoons. Carter sang lead on the New Vaudeville Band's hit single "Winchester Cathedral", [14] a
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The song was introduced on the 1966 album Winchester Cathedral by Geoff Stephens' group the New Vaudeville Band; like that group's hit "Winchester Cathedral", "There's a Kind of Hush" was conceived as a neo-British music hall number although it is a less overt example of that style.