The Outlaws were an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
instrumentalRock Instrumentals have a separate page.An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. This term is used when referring to popular music rather than to other musical genres such as European...
bandRock band redirects here. For the video game series, see Rock Band A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music...
that recorded in the early 1960s. One time members included
Ritchie BlackmoreRichard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist, who was a founding member of hard rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. He left Deep Purple in 1993 due to a growing rift between Blackmore and other members in spite of renewed commercial success...
,
Chas HodgesChas Hodges , is the piano and guitar playing half, and lead vocalist, of the English musical duo, Chas & Dave....
,
Bobby GrahamBobby Graham was an English session drummer, composer, arranger and record producer. Shel Talmy, who produced The Kinks, David Bowie and The Who, described Graham as "the greatest drummer the UK has ever produced."...
, Ken Lundgren,
Mick UnderwoodMick Underwood is a British drummer best known for his work with Episode Six, Quatermass and Gillan. First playing drums at the age of 14, he was a professional musician by the time he left school...
, Reg Hawkins, Billy Kuy and others.
Their name was originally conceived by
Joe MeekJoe Meek was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter...
, who needed a backing group for
Mike BerryMike Berry is an English actor and singer, best known for his appearances as Mr. Spooner on the British sitcom, Are You Being Served?....
's "Set Me Free" in 1960. After that
recordingSound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
, they continued being one of the
house bandA house band is a group of musicians, often centrally organized by a band leader, who regularly play an establishment. It is widely used to refer both to the bands who work on entertainment programs on television or radio, and to bands which are the regular performers at a nightclub, especially...
s of his
recording studioA recording studio is a facility for sound recording. Ideally, the space is specially designed by an acoustician to achieve the desired acoustic properties...
at 304 Holloway Road,
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
. As such, they were used for recordings,
demoA demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for musicians to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...
s and auditions.
The Outlaws were an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
instrumentalRock Instrumentals have a separate page.An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. This term is used when referring to popular music rather than to other musical genres such as European...
bandRock band redirects here. For the video game series, see Rock Band A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music...
that recorded in the early 1960s. One time members included
Ritchie BlackmoreRichard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist, who was a founding member of hard rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. He left Deep Purple in 1993 due to a growing rift between Blackmore and other members in spite of renewed commercial success...
,
Chas HodgesChas Hodges , is the piano and guitar playing half, and lead vocalist, of the English musical duo, Chas & Dave....
,
Bobby GrahamBobby Graham was an English session drummer, composer, arranger and record producer. Shel Talmy, who produced The Kinks, David Bowie and The Who, described Graham as "the greatest drummer the UK has ever produced."...
, Ken Lundgren,
Mick UnderwoodMick Underwood is a British drummer best known for his work with Episode Six, Quatermass and Gillan. First playing drums at the age of 14, he was a professional musician by the time he left school...
, Reg Hawkins, Billy Kuy and others.
Their name was originally conceived by
Joe MeekJoe Meek was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter...
, who needed a backing group for
Mike BerryMike Berry is an English actor and singer, best known for his appearances as Mr. Spooner on the British sitcom, Are You Being Served?....
's "Set Me Free" in 1960. After that
recordingSound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
, they continued being one of the
house bandA house band is a group of musicians, often centrally organized by a band leader, who regularly play an establishment. It is widely used to refer both to the bands who work on entertainment programs on television or radio, and to bands which are the regular performers at a nightclub, especially...
s of his
recording studioA recording studio is a facility for sound recording. Ideally, the space is specially designed by an acoustician to achieve the desired acoustic properties...
at 304 Holloway Road,
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
. As such, they were used for recordings,
demoA demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for musicians to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...
s and auditions. Many of their
songA song is a metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad....
s were
writtenA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well as the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer.-History and background of songwriters:...
by Meek and credited to his
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,
Robert DukeJoe Meek was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter...
. They appeared as themselves in the 1963
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filmFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
,
Live It Up!Live It Up! is an British music-film released in 1963. It was filmed at Pinewood Film Studios in London, England and featured Gene Vincent, Jenny Moss, The Outlaws, Patsy Ann Noble, The Saints and Heinz Burt among others...
.
In addition to featuring on three
hit singleA hit single is a recorded track or single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official music chart through repeated radio airplay and/or significant...
s backing Mike Berry, they also recorded
singlesIn music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats.-History:...
in their own right, see discography below.
Singles
With the line-up : Billy Kuy, Bobby Graham, Chas Hodges, Reg Hawkins
- "Swingin' Low" b/w "Spring is Near" (March 1961) - UK
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#46
- "Ambush" b/w "Indian Brave" (June 1961) - UK #43
- "Valley of the Sioux" b/w "Crazy Drums" (September 1961)
With the line-up : Ken Lundgren, Don Groom, Chas Hodges, Roger Mingay
- "Ku-Pow!" b/w "Last Stage West" (February 1962)
- "Sioux Serenade" b/w "Fort Knox" (September 1962)
With the line-up : Mick Underwood, Ken Lundgren, Chas Hodges, Ritchie Blackmore
- "Poppin' Medley Part 1/2" as The Chaps (December 62) Parlophone
Parlophone is a record label, founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company. The ₤ trademark is a German L, for Lindström. It also resembles the British pound sign , which itself is derived from the letter L for Libra, meaning pound in Latin...
R4979
- "Return of The Outlaws" b/w "Texan Spiritual" (February 1963)
- "That Set the Wild West Free" b/w "Hobo" (August 1963) (note: Underwood does not appear on "Hobo")
- "The Bike Beat 1" b/w "The Bike Beat 2" as The Rally Rounders (1964) Lyntone LYN 574
- "Law and Order" b/w "Do Da Day" (January 1964)
- "Keep a Knockin'" b/w "Shake with Me" (April 1964)
With the line-up : Mick Underwood, Ken Lundgren, Chas Hodges, Harvey Hinsley
- "Don't Cry" b/w "Only For You" (Thomas; Groom) (February 1965) [Note: United States
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only, vocal single, produced by Derek LawrenceDerek Lawrence is a record producer, famous for his work for Joe Meek's Outlaws, Deep Purple, Machiavel and Wishbone Ash.Lawrence came in contact with Meek circa at the end of 1963, when he managed a group, Laurie Black and the Men of Mystery, that won a recording session at Joe Meek's studio. He...
. The b-sideA-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
to this release features Mick Underwood, Nicky Hopkins, Chas Hodges, Ritchie Blackmore]
Albums
- Dream of the West (HMV, December 1961)
- "Dream of the West" / "The Outlaws" / "Husky Team" / "Rodeo" / "Smoke Signals" / "Ambush" / "Barbecue" / "Spring Is Near" / "Indian Brave" / "Homeward Bound" / "Western Sunset" / "Tune for Short Cowboys"
- Billy Kuy (
lead guitarA lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, and guitar solos within a song structure.In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop contexts as well as others, the lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays...
), Bobby Graham (
drumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of music instruments, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of...
s), Chas Hodges (
bassBass is a family of musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
), Reg Hawkins (
rhythm guitarRhythm guitar is the use of a guitar to provide rhythmic chordal accompaniment for a singer or other instruments in a musical ensemble. In ensembles or "bands" playing within the acoustic, country, blues, rock or metal genres , a guitarist playing the rhythm part of a composition supports the...
).
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