On Truly Judy’s Uncommon Oldies for this week, we go to the Early Radio London Fab Forties chart to the end of October, 1965. My featured group was from Birmingham in the UK. According to my friend Gordon from Scotland, Birmingham is known affectionately throughout England as Brum, and it’s the second biggest city in Great Britain next to London. This featured group had many personnel changes over the years. They started out as a band called The Dominettes. Regular venues where the Dominettes played in the early 1960’s were the Grotto Club and The Cecilia Coffee Bar in the UK. Another regular venue for the Dominettes was the Firebird Jazz Club in Central Birmingham. By 1963, the group was renamed The Ugly’s.
The song that I have featured had prominent use of a harpsichord. This record didn’t do that well on the British charts possibly because of a record company strike even though the group made an appearance on the popular television program, “Ready, Steady, Go”, to promote it. Other Ugly’s singles were released between 1965 and 1967 including a great version of End Of the Season, a song composed by Ray Davies of the Kinks.
Here are the Ugly’s with their #36 song on the Early Radio London Fab Forties chart called It’s Alright. It was out in October, 1965, and was on the Pye label.
The Ugly’s – It’s Alright (Pye 1965)
Source: http://www.brumbeat.net/uglys.htm
