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Derry and the Seniors
Derry and the Seniors were a British rock and roll group of the early 1960s. They were the first band from Liverpool to play the club scene in Germany, paving the way for The Beatles and others. As Howie Casey and the Seniors, they were also the first Liverpool group to record an LP, and featured singer Freddie Fowell, later known as Freddie Starr.
==Career==
Derry Wilkie (10 January 1941 - 22 December 2001)〔( Obscure Bands Of The 50's & 60's: Derry Wilkie )〕 was a black British singer born in Kent Gardens, Toxteth, Liverpool. According to local journalist Bill Harry, Wilkie's real name was Derek Davis.〔〔( ''Mersey Beat'': Meet the Singer: Derry Wilkie )〕 In 1959, he began singing with a local rock and roll group, the Hy-Tones, who split up at the end of the year. A new band, the Seniors, was then formed by three members of the group - Howie Casey (saxophone), Billy Hughes (rhythm guitar), and Stan Foster (piano) - together with Brian Griffiths (lead guitar), Phil Whitehead (bass) and Jeff Wallington (drums). Wilkie joined as lead singer, and for the next year the band was usually billed as Derry and the Seniors.〔( Bill Harry, ''In the Beginning...There Was Howie Casie & The Seniors'' )〕
They performed in local venues around Merseyside, and in May 1960, after appearing in a show headed by Gene Vincent, were invited to audition for the role of backing band for Liverpool star Billy Fury. Although they did not win the audition, they were invited by Fury's manager Larry Parnes to go to London to perform at the 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho. A few weeks later, they played at the 2i's, and happened to be seen there by Bruno Koschmider, a visiting German club owner who was looking for acts that he could use in his Hamburg club, the Kaiserkeller. The Seniors travelled to Germany and played regularly in Hamburg over the summer of 1960, later being joined there by rival Liverpool group, the Beatles. However, as the group members did not have work permits or visas, they were repatriated to the UK in October 1960. They continued to play local clubs and venues around Liverpool for the rest of 1960, but at the end of the year Wallington and Hughes decided to leave.〔
At the start of 1961, the group reformed using the name Howie Casey and the Seniors, with Frank Wibberley on drums, and Wilkie sharing vocals with Freddie Fowell. They then signed a recording deal with Fontana Records, becoming the first beat group from Liverpool to record an LP. The album, ''Twist At The Top'', was issued in February 1962, together with a single, "Double Twist". Two further singles followed in 1962, "I Ain't Mad At You" and "The Boll Weevil Song", but they were not hits. Over the next few months, Whitehead left and was replaced by a succession of bass players including Lu Walters, and Wibberley also left to be replaced by drummer Kenny Hardin, before the group finally broke up in mid 1962.〔〔
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