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| 1. | Dog Bottom
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| 2. | I Can't Sleep
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| 3. | From Monday On
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| 4. | The Writing on the Wall
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| 5. | Crying for the Carolines
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| 6. | The Man I Love
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| 7. | Everybody Loves My Baby
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| 8. | San
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| 9. | Mornington Crescent
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| 10. | My Baby Just Cares For Me
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| 11. | Drum Crazy
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| 12. | Mississippi Mud
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| 13. | Brown Eyes
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| 14. | Ain't She Sweet
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| 15. | There Ain't No Sweet Man Worth the Salt of My Tears
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| 16. | My Blue Heaven
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| 17. | S'Wonderful
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Jazz / Early Jazz, Trad Jazz, British Dance Bands
Captain Christopher Buckley (sous, leader)
Colonel Alexander Hitchcock Galloway (voc, mega)
Dr. Graham Collicott (per)
Michael Grimsargh Deighan (bjo, gtr, uk)
Flight Commander Patrick Rixon (tb)
The Marquis of Piccadilly-The Right Honorable John Tucker (tp)
The Laird Wee Will McHastie (cl, alto sx)
Count Geoffrey Simkins (bar & alto sx.)
This CD includes some original material written by the band.
The death of longtime member Malcolm Willoughby resulted in the Temperance Seven adding someone who would become their strongest soloist, baritonist Geoffrey Simkins. This is easily the best of their first three Upbeat CDs, with the English music-hall comedy and corny vocals de-emphasized (but not completely absent) in favor of vintage jazz. Trumpeter John Tucker, trombonist Patrick Rixon (another new member), and Wee Will McHastie (on clarinet and alto) along with Simkins make for a solid frontline, backed by banjoist Michael Deighan, drummer Graham Collicott and the group's leader Christopher Buckley on sousaphone. Even with a couple duds (mostly the original material), there are enough high points to justify the acquisition of this disc by trad jazz fans, most notably Chick Webb's "Dog Bottom," "From Monday On," "Everybody Loves My Baby" and "There Ain't No Sweet Man Worth the Salt of My Tears." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
The Temperance Seven
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Comedy, Early Jazz, Trad Jazz, British Dance Bands
After decades of music hall and pantomime in Britain, the link between various forms of jazz and various forms of comedy (many of them low) was well-forged indeed. This link was very well understood by the people involved with The Goon Show, a BBC Radio comedy show starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan, with the occasional appearance from Michael Bentine -- this kind of surreal comedy would give rise to the Alberts, the Scaffold and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, with the influences traveling across the Atlantic to inspire such bent comedy-with-brass outfits as the Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band.
The Temperance Seven first appeared in 1957, led by the flamboyant Alexander Hitchcock Galloway, who provided vocals and periodic bellows and commentary through a brass megaphone. The band had some direct links with the Alberts, in that members of the expanded version of the Alberts (known as the Massed Alberts) found their way to the Temperance Seven. Ted Wood, brother of Rolling Stones member Ron Wood, was a member for some time. In 1966, they appeared in The Wrong Box, providing some of the more hilarious moments in the film.
While the band has, in its various lineups, recorded a number of albums, they achieved only a few hits in Britain -- although these included a #1 with "You're Driving Me Crazy." Other chart successes included "Pasadena" and "Chili Bom-Bom," a song so pervasive that it approached the saturation of a national fad.
The band continues to perform and record as of 1998.
--- Steven McDonald, All Music Guide |
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