Mosrite in action

[dubtrub]

Found this posted over on the Tele forum. Good stuff, even the drunk that had to help out the band.

[Dennisthe Menace]

Hey Danny, here's one of them back in '91 when they were on the Lettermen Show.
WoW! Everyone had hair back then

p.s. He had the Mo' back then with the same sticker on it !

[Dennisthe Menace]

[Sarah93003]

Cool video! I wonder if they knew they spelled "Tremolo" wrong? According to Wikipedia they were founded in 1958 and still active today! Wow! I've never heard of them but I really like the lead singers voice. It has a very pleasant quality to it. I have always admired drummers who can sing at the same time. I don't know how they can do that! Also love the double neck in white! Very cool! I thought it interesting that he did the lead solo on the twelve neck. Nice touch. Some nice finger picking to that I don't think you saw much in the "Rock-N-Roll" bands of that era.

[Dennisthe Menace]

Not to get off topic Sarah, but here are 2 of the Tremeloes bigger hits.
See if either of these sound familiar.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyj2qL-bQ4E

And this last VID, I chose the live version only because it looked like they were having way
too much fun playing the tune. Also check out the funny facial expressions between the
Bass and Rhythm players when the Bass player 'goes south' on the 'whistle solo.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bswxaeyQDFI

[Sarah93003]

Nope, sorry, neither of these ring a bell. I noticed their version of Lion Sleeps Tonight and I do recall hearing that version on the radio. I know The Tokens did it first but the version I remember must be The Tremeloes. Cool!

[juan_10]

Originally it was Brian Poole and the Tremeloes .... Stand out fact is that in 1962 when Decca Records turned down the Beatles , they signed this band from Dagenham in Essex instead. Chart success (lol) wasn't forthcoming until some time after the massive Beatles boom , and the Trems scored a number four with a cover of Twist and Shout ..

I think Brian went back to the family butchers business fairly soon, and the Trems continued the way bands do when the singer leaves. Always a harmony-type group they were always going to have it tough because they weren't from Liverpool . A bit like the way you had to be from San Francisco back in the day.

My favourite of theirs was Do you love me? (now that I can dance)
Great to see that Mosrite double neck in there !

(I owe it all to Wikipaedia)

PS from A review on Amazon
'On New Year's Day, 1962, the Tremeloes auditioned for a recording contract immediately after the Beatles (then with Pete Best - later to be replaced by Ringo Starr). The man who had to choose only one signed the Tremeloes, although he eventually redeemed himself by signing the Rolling Stones to Decca on a recommendation from George Harrison. It is easy to laugh at the decision with hindsight, but the Tremeloes were a more experienced group and had a regular slot on BBC radio, therefore were known to many more people than the Beatles. Furthermore, the Tremeloes were based in London where the record company was located, so this also counted against the Beatles.

The Tremeloes were originally formed by a group of teenagers in 1958 with Brian Poole as their lead singer. Following their signing to Decca, the record company insisted that they put Brian's name up front, so they became Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. They found plenty of work, having non-charting singles of their own as well as backing other recording artists. Among these were the Vernon girls, who had minor UK hits with covers of Lover please (Clyde McPhatter) and Locomotion (Little Eva) - it was Locomotion that featured the Tremeloes.

Their first chart entry (a UK top five hit) was Twist and shout, a cover of an early Isley Brothers song that they'd recorded after hearing it on the Beatles' debut album. They followed it with Do you love me, a cover of a Contours song, which topped the UK charts for three weeks, knocking She loves you (Beatles) off the top - temporarily. The latter record returned to the top a couple of months later. The Dave Clark Five also covered Do you love me, but their version (their debut single) only made number 30 in the UK, though it did much better for them in America. '

[Veenture]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEs2nFwo-i8

Always loved The Tremeloes, thanks for posting them Dennis, wow... and to think after all these years the typical Yellow River solo riff-sound came from...a MOSRITE
...I should've known!

[Edward Lopez]

[quote="Dennisthe Menace][/quote]

I like The Tremeloes version of "Silence Is Golden" and "Here Comes My Baby" but in this video they do a real poor lip-synching job of the tune made famous by Christie and, worse, The Tremeloes version didn't chart. Their only saving grace for the purpose of this forum is the doubled-neck Mo.

However, the explanation of the song on Wikipedia, below, has me confused as to what version charted!

Trivia: Christie's Mike Blakely is the brother of The Tremeloes' Alan Blakely!

Yellow River (song)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Yellow River" is a popular song recorded by the British band Christie. Written by band leader Jeff Christie, the song was offered to The Tremeloes, who recorded it with the intention of releasing it as a single early in 1970. However, after the success of their then most recent single, "Call Me Number One", and after considering it too pop-orientated for their future direction, they decided to follow it up with another of their own compositions, "By The Way", which was only a minor Top 40 success.

Producer Mike Smith therefore took their vocals off the recording and added those of Jeff Christie. Released in May 1970, it became an international hit, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart for one week in June 1970. In the US, it reached number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

The song is the thoughts of a young man whose time in the army (possibly the Vietnam War, given the time the song was recorded) is over and he is looking forward to returning to his home town in the country on Yellow River. The actual location of Yellow River is not known. The British video had the group on a barge sailing down the River Thames through London.

[Dennisthe Menace]

Another Mo' in action....R.I.P. Drake Levin.....