| Code | DS/UK/15029 |
| Name | The Barron Knights (1959) |
| Alias | Knights of the Round Table |
| Dates | 1959 |
| Gender | Group (Male) |
| Place of Birth/Origin | Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England (formed) |
| Relationships | Original Members:
Barron Antony - bass, vocals
Peter 'Peanut' Langford - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Duke D'Mond - vocals
Butch Baker - guitar, vocals
Dave Ballinger - drums
Other Members:
Len Crawley
Lloyd Courtenay
Micky Groome
Don Ringsell
John Judge Hopkins
Dave Morrow
Howie Conder
Bill Sharky
Occassional Session Musicians:
Reg Dwight (Elton John) |
| Biography | The Barron Knights are a British humorous pop group, originally called the Knights of the Round Table.
They started out as a straight pop group, and spent a couple of years touring and playing in English dance halls before making their way to Hamburg, Germany. They first came to fame in 1964 with the number "Call Up the Groups" (Parts 1 and 2). It overcame copyright restrictions and parodied a number of the leading pop groups of the time including the Searchers, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Dave Clark Five, the Bachelors, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles. The song imagined the various artists singing about being conscripted, or "called up" into the British Army, although actual conscription had ended in 1960. The single climbed to number 3 in the UK Singles Chart. |