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The
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Seen by many as Ireland's top showband, The Royal from
Waterford set the standard for all other showbands.
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Town/Village/County: Waterford |
Lead Vocals:
Brendan Bowyer / Lee Lynch / Barbara
Dixon / Derrick Mehaffey
Lead Guitar:
Jim Conlon / Fergus Burke
2nd Guitar:
Bass:
Tom Dunphy / Billy Hopkins
Trumpet:
Eddie Sullivan / Mike Healy |
Sax/Clarinet:
Michael Coppinger
Trombone:
Brendan Bowyer
Drums:
Charlie Matthews
Organ/Piano:
Gerry Cullen / Arthur
Madden
Manager: T. J. Byrne |
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Discography
Singles | 45 r.p.m.
His Master's Voice
1962: POP(I)1011 - Come Down The Mountain Katie Daly / I Heard The
Bluebird Sing
1962: POP(I)1070 - Marta / Bless Your Heart My Darling
1963: IP1293 - Kiss Me Quick / Love Thee Dearest
1963: IP1294 - Theme From The One Nighters / Goodbye And God Bless You
1963: POP(I)1238 - No More / Fountain Of Love
1964: IP1295 - Bless You (For Being An Angel) / California Sun
1964: POP(I)1377 - I Ran All The Way Home / Hucklebuck
1965: IP1296 - If I Didn't Have A Dime / What Will My Mary Say
1965: IP1301 - Don't Lose Your Hucklebuck Shoes / Hawaiian Wedding
Song
1965: POP1444 - She Was You Again / Count Me In
1965: POP1481 - The Wonder Of You / Fun Fun Fun
1966: IP1306 - One Way Street / Everything I Touch Turns To Tears
1966: HPOP(I)1505 - I Know What It's Like (To Have Loved) / My Little
Girl
1966: POP(I)1521 - The Fly / Answer Me
1966: IP1304 - I Can't Get You Out Of My Heart / Can I Forget You
1966: IP1305 - Somewhere My Love / Spanish Lace
1967: IP1307 - Time And The River/ Younger Than Springtime
1967: IP1308 - The Rapparee / Whistling Phil McHugh
King
1967: KG1059 - Da Do Run Run / Sitting In The Sun
1967: KG1065 - Look Into My Teardrops / Between The Window and the
Phone
1967: KG1066 - The Holy City / Silent Night
1968: KG1078 - Lady Willpower / Woman Woman
Dolphin
1968: DOS19 - Same Old Song / Come On Let's Go
Pye
1970: 7N.17905 - Both Sides Now / My Way
1970: 7N.45024 - Sweet Caroline / Kentucky Woman
Release
1970: RL.547 - 500 Miles / Doc Brown
1972: RL.655 - Stand By Your Man / Me and Bobby Magee / Four and
Twenty Hours
1974: RL.710 - Visions / All My Love
Columbia
1971: IDB.797 - No One Can Break A Heart Like You / My Child
E.P: His Master's Voice
1964: The Royal Showband, Waterford - SEGC.30
A: So Deep Is The Night / From the Bottom of My Heart;
B: Dear Waste Basket / C'mon Everybody
L.Ps:
His Master's Voice
1964: HMV 1779 - The One Nighters
1967: HMV 3620 - The Best Of The Royal
King
1968: KGL 4008 - The Stardust Show
Pye Golden Guinea
1970: GSGL 10456 - Ireland Calls
EMI
1976: EMI 1046 - The Royal Showband Story |
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1962, Locarno Ballroom, Coventry - Admission 6/6 |
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The One Nighters - 1963 | 48
minutes
One of the genuine oddities of the early 1960’s, but one which
grew out of familiar subject matter and gave a fascinating insight
into the ‘new’ Ireland, was The One-Nighters. The film follows the
adventures of the popular Royal Showband on tour, pre-empting
Richard Lester’s 'A Hard Day’s Night' - in its depiction of its
subjects as a group of happy-go-lucky ‘kids’ with hardly defined
semi-comic personae.
- Harvey O’Brien, The Real
Ireland: Evolution of Ireland in Documentary Film
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Taken
not long before the formation of the Big 8. From left: Gerry Cullen,
Brendan Bowyer, Michael Coppinger,
Jim Conlon, Charlie Matthews, Eddie
Sullivan, Tom Dunphy |
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