BBC TRANSCRIPTION DISC -TOP of the POPS DUSTY PINKERTONS ST LOUIS UNION (R46)

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RARE BBC TRANSCRIPTION DISC -TOP of the POPS  DUSTY EVERY OZ OF STRENGTH & WHEN I SIAD I NEEDED YOU & TRUE LOVE ZOOT MONEY LETS RUN FOR COVER  - PINKERTONS MIRROR MIRROR  - ST LOUIS UNION THAT WILL? & RESPECT  - LEE DORSEY TALK ABOUT THE THINGS YOU DO  (R46)
2 MAY 1966

RECORD MATRIX: 12FPM 116439A
St. Louis Union were an English mid 1960s, short-lived, freakbeat rock band from Manchester, England, who formed part of the mod rock scene. They were formed by singer Tony Cassidy, guitarist Keith Millar, tenor saxophone/flute player Alex Kirby (born 6 January 1947, Walkden, who left in late 1966 and was replaced by Lenni Zaksen and Bernie Brown), keyboardist David Tomlinson, bassist John Nichols and drummer Dave Webb.

They formed initially as The Satanists and then, after they changed their name, they won the Melody Maker National Beat Contest,[2] in front of a 3,700 sold-out crowd on 15 August 1965 at Wimbledon Palais, leaving a fledgling The Pink Floyd (later known simply as Pink Floyd) in a lower placing. The judges included Graham Nash of The Hollies, Kenny Everett then a Radio London deejay and Vicki Wickham of Ready Steady Go!. The band's winning prizes included a Hammond organ, a recording contract with Decca Records, an appearance on ABC TV's Lucky Stars and a complete set of outfits from Cecil Gee the London tailors.[1] At the time their manager was Terry Smith and Kennedy St. Artists were their sole agents. As a result of their contest win they made their first TV appearance on 18 August 1965 on Granada TV's Scene at 6.30.

Their first single, a cover of the Beatles song "Girl", was released in early 1966, and was a success in the UK Singles Chart, where it reached No. 11 in February 1966. The single also had an American release on Parrot. The band were popular in the Manchester area.

However, after "Girl", there were no more hits, despite two more singles "Behind The Door" and "East Side Story" being released. They performed "Behind the Door", "Respect" and "Down in the Valley" on 12 April 1966 on Top of the Pops, and appeared again on the show and played "East Side Story" plus "Things Get Better" and "Don't Worry Girl" on 1 November 1966. The same year they supported Otis Redding at the Manchester Apollo on 15 September and they also played "English Tea" and "I Got my Pride" in the film The Ghost Goes Gear. The band split up in 1967

Guitarist Keith Millar (born 15 April 1947, Manchester) subsequently joined the Rod Stewart's band, but died on 17 May 2005.[6] Singer Tony Cassidy (born 22 July 1947, Manchester) also died around the same time after a career in teaching. In the 1970s he was the youngest head teacher in the UK. Before the St Louis Union, David Tomlinson played with Lorraine Gray and the Chapperones plus another band called the Roadrunners. He later had a role in the subsequent new wave scene, under the stage name of Dave Formula, as a member of Magazine, Visage, Ludus and Luxuria, and working with Howard Devoto and Tuxedomoon's Winston Tong. Bassist John Nichols (born 10 August 1947, Manchester) has since developed a career as an actors headshot photographer in Manchester and has won the Heist Award. Bernie Brown continues to play saxophone in Spain and on the Costa Del Sol with cover bands. Dave Webb (born 5 August 1947, Salford) played drums in the Wigan-based band, The New Soul Messengers, but died in April 2017.


All released in 1966 on Decca Records

"Girl" (b/w "Respect") UK release 6 January 1966 – US release on Parrot Records, a division of London Records
"Behind The Door" (b/w "English Tea") UK release 22 April 1966
"East Side Story" (b/w "Think About Me") UK release 21 October 1966

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 The BBC Transcription Services started life in the mid-1930s as the London Transcription Service to license BBC Radio programmes to overseas broadcasters who were authorised to broadcast the programmes for a set period, usually two or three years. The programmes sold to overseas broadcasters in this way covered every part of the BBC's output, including all types of music, drama, religious and children's programmes and comedy. It is now called BBC Radio International.
Whilst the BBC destroyed most broadcast recordings it produced for its various outlets, BBC Transcription Services often retained their copy and many of the surviving radio programmes from the 1940s onwards owe their survival to the fact that Transcription Services issued the material.

The original releases were in the form of 12-inch 78 rpm discs. Each of these discs contained no more than three or four minutes per side and so a radio operator would have needed to cue the start of many discs as the previous one finished for a half hour programme. Consecutive parts of a programme were on different discs to enable the radio operator to cue the start of the next part of the programme from a different disc from the one being played.

By around 1947, the 78 rpm discs were replaced with 16-inch transcription discs running at 33⅓ rpm. These coarse groove discs each contained approximately ten minutes per side, so the requirement to cross fade throughout an episode was still required.

As witness Ted Kendall's Technical Notes included in The Goon Show Compendium box sets, the 16-inch discs were superseded by 10-inch and later 12-inch vinyl LPs from the mid-1950s onward.

These discs were edited to run to standard lengths, and to remove any content deemed too topical or potentially offensive. In the case of The Goon Show, for instance, each episode was cut to approximately 29 minutes and 30 seconds. A later reissue series of Goon Show episodes was cut further to 27 minutes to accommodate commercials.

BBC Transcription Services typically pressed only one hundred copies of each disc with instructions to the overseas radio network to destroy the disc at the end of the licence period.

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