| Main Performers | Alma Cogan,
Craig Douglas,
Bill Forbes,
Billy Fury,
Duffy Power,
Dickie Pride,
Cuddly Dudley,
Cherry Wainer,
Terry White,
Marty Wilde - vocals,
Bert Weedon - guitar |
| Orchestra or Band | Harry Robinson and Lord Rockingham's XI,
Neville Taylor and The Cutters,
The Mudlarks,
Little Tony and His Brothers,
The Vernons Girls |
| Performance Notes | "The Cats Dug this Pop-Prom - Beat' Boys Rock in the Albert Hall -
It was an explosion of an afternoon at London's Royal Albert Hall yesterday. Nearly 5,000 youngsters hand-clapped and screamed their delight through two hours of rock 'n' roll.
Sixteen top names and acts took part in the Great Pop-Prom...They included "some of the finest exponents of 'beat' music'" said the Duke of Edinburgh. President of the Association, in a message reproduced in the programme.
There was top-liner Marty Wilde, wearing lame jackets of gold and silver. He sang duets with Top Twenty's No.1 boy of the moment, Craig Douglas, and with sparkling Alma Cogan.
There was Duffy Power, Dickle Pride, who "shakes as he sings". Little Tony and his Brothers, from Italy, Billy Fury, Cuddly Duddly, ace guitarist Bert Weedon, the Lord Rockingam "big beat" band, Neville Taylor and the Cutters, Bill Forbesm the singing Mularks...
Rockin' with the rest of them was singer Terry White, who happens to be an office boy with Valentine.
In the glamour stakes there were organist and drummer Cherry Wainer with her partner Don Storer, and the vivacious Vernons Dancing Girls. The Mudlarks flew from Blackpool to take part. And even conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent looked in.
Jack Good, creator of TV's big beat shows, produced the Prom and amde the second half a reproduction of one of his famous "Oh Boy!" programmes".
(Daily Mirror, 21 September 1965, Page 11)
Original photographs of the event are held by Mirrorpix. |