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8:57am 03-21-2008
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Just found your fab site I was keyboard player with the late Big Ivan and Joe Cuddy band wish those great days were back again.
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8:51am 03-21-2008
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great web nice to see the showbands getting some credit, great to see pictures of my uncle Mick up there (clippers drummer) keep up the good work !
Hoot
http://www.hootsweb.com
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12:55pm 03-09-2008
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I loved Fran oToole.In the 70s we followed the band all around the south east of Ireland. I remember clearly the last time I spoke to Fran in Tramore. I was off on holiday to England the next day and he dedicated a song to me. "Sealed with a kiss" I was in England when I heard the news "Fran Brian and Tony were dead. Gutted ever since, how could they do this? I will never forgive them. What a waste of a fresh young talent. Frans new album had not even been released. R.I.P. boys never to be forgotton. loads of love Eileen xxx
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12:54pm 03-09-2008
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Hi Ian, Enjoyed your website. My father was Christy Armstrong who played with Savoy Swing Seven and taught music in Carrick on Shannon. My husband Anthony Daly is from Drumshanbo and we go to Carrick on Shannon and Drumshanbo regularly. We live in Dublin. I enjoyed reading the comments from John Healy?s children and wish them all well. We often meet Pat Colum as he lives in Drumshanbo, and also Mick Woods who still plays Sax, Tin Whistle and the Flute with his nose! Mick Woods tells me that Jimmy Shivnan still gigs in the USA. I have great childhood memories of musical sessions in our house on Summerhill-which was knocked down and a Credit Union built in its place. (More money there now than there was in the old days!). It was a great privilege to grow up in the midst of all these wonderful musicians who came to our home-Frank Murrays?s Band, The Kevin Woods Band and Savoy Swing Seven. Thanks to all of you. Margaret Armstrong Daly.
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12:53pm 03-09-2008
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Hi Ian found your website last week,great to read about the early daysof the showbands, My first contact with the show bands was around 1969 in manchester, St Brendans and it was Richard Fitzgerald. My Mum and Dad were big fans and as a treat I was taken to here thier music If I remember right richard had his son and his brother barney playing with him. As I got older with my brother and sisters we traveld all over to to see the showbands from the Carosel longsight to St pats in Hudderfield -Sheffield-Liverpool and all our local clubs we followed Big Tom / larry and the Avons / The Indains with Noel Brady Big chif Flaming star, Brian Coll and his Buckaroos The clubmen Dermot Heagert I was in the English Martyers parish centre the night he blew the noise reduction system it used to cut the power if the bands were to loud, we followed many of the bands, dose any one know where I can replace my old vynal records {indains, Irelands best are on release} thank you Ian keep it up Brendan.
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12:28pm 03-06-2008
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Hi Ian...and fellow readers. Like hundreds of others i love the site. I should say i have no connection with the showband music except as an avid fan since the sixties. I especially love The Cadets, with Eileen Reid. Can you or any of your readers please help in a search. In the sixties i bought a single of a band called ''something' & the Royal Irish Showband'' the record of course was, Do The Hucklebuck. Possibly the B-side was, I Ran All The Way Home? Am I right?
Anyway, do you or your many followers know where i might be able to obtain these tracks from the particular band please?
Fond regards to you and your site-friends from a showband-mad English person from Kent.
Matt Penniall.
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12:26pm 03-06-2008
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It was a trip down memory lane and good to see an old pic of the Trixons and looking at my brother Terry wow did he look young! lol
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6:13pm 03-04-2008
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I came across the article on the drifters when I was researching the name Deihy. Eddie Deihy's name came up and he happens to be my brother, so it was a nice surprise to come across although I didn't recognize him in any of the group pictures. If you see him around, tell him I didn't know he was famous!!
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6:09pm 03-04-2008
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It's funny to find out a place named Arigna in another country. It's like my mother's village, in the north of Italy...
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10:36am 03-04-2008
Ted
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D oes anyone know what happened to Harry Parker,Marty Fanning and Sean Fagen? They were with the Pacific Showband and later the Dublin Corporation. Are they still in Canada? From there old light man, Ted
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10:33am 03-04-2008
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My name is Paul Moore.Im a professional bassist in Dublin for the past 18 years.Butch Moore was (is) my uncle and some of these photographs you have here are just incredible-I have never seen the one with Dizzy before! Great site.Keep it up
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10:32am 03-04-2008
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Just discovered your site and find it very interesting.I knew Jim Gunner (Dave Glover and Swingtime Aces)back when he played with the Dave Wender Group and when he recorded as a featured artist on a single for Decca (Hooley Jump/Footloose.)and at least one other for, I think Fontana.Keep up the good work, it's a great site.
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10:31am 03-04-2008
Ted
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D oes anyone know what happened to Harry Parker,Marty Fanning and Sean Fagen? They were with the Pacific Showband and later the Dublin Corporation. Are they still in Canada? From there old light man, Ted
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6:10pm 03-02-2008
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Hi Ian,My Manager found your site which i have enjoyed visiting as it brings back wonderful memories of the good old days of the ballrooms and the great Showbands which i was fortunite enough to be part of ,well done ,Mick Feeney
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6:08pm 03-02-2008
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Hi Ian just wanted to say what a wonderful website you have.I came across it accidentally but was amazed and delighted to see a photo of my uncle on there one I had never seen before. His name is Billy Burns and he was a guitarist with bith Teddy Palmer & the Rumble Band in the late 60's and then went to canada with Muriel Day & the Night Squad in the 70's.
My mum and grandma will be chuffed to see this, unfortunately my uncle died very suddenly a few years back so it is extra special to me to see this.
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