Music from a long time ago

[Richardtr3a]

I am trying to remember the name of a four or five man group who had a hit in the early 60's. The singer was a young man with light coloured hair and a round face. He had a small beard around his chin about 1 1/2" wide from the top of the ear on each side. Not many had beards on TOTP and I think maybe,  that the band name began with a C. It was a very long time ago and none of my family can find the name.

If any one can discover the band, it would be very helpful.

Thanks Richard & B

[Crawfie]

Google “ list of bands from the 60s”

A to Z will poop up . Click on the Cs and away you go . Something on the list may just jog your memory . Mind you they say if you can remember the 60s ………..

 

[cp25616]

Creedence Clearwater Revival springs to mind here. Not early 60's though but still 60' all the same.

Alan G

[Charlie D]

17 hours ago, Crawfie said:

Google “ list of bands from the 60s”

If that does not work then Google:

 “Pop singers with beards from the 1960’s”

And click on “Images”, you get quite a choice.

 

DO NOT Google:

 “Blond pop singers with beards from the 1960’s”

As most of them are women  (although several of them do seem to have beards.)

 

Charlie.

[Peter Cobbold]

Manfred Mann ? but it was not the singer with a beard.

[RogerH]

Light hair  !!!!!

 

Roger

[ken foster]

No evidence they played TOTP, the original line up, a US band.

The beard seems to have gone in most of the pics/ videos. His mum must have made him shave it off for school.

Well that's my input.

Ken.

[stillp]

TRy here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_performers_on_Top_of_the_Pops

Pete

[stillp]

The Casuals?

 

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[Richardtr3a]

That was a good result. The band that I was trying to remember was Manfred Mann. Thank you for the help. I was thinking they might have  light hair but the moment that I saw the picture I knew that this was the band I was trying to remember.. I used to watch TOTP every week. What do teenagers watch now ? How important is pop music in the modern world ??

Thanks Richard & B

[RogerH]

Hi Richard,

I think you are the chap that creates the police E-Fit pictures.

 

Blonde singer  !!!!!

Next time I will go with Rolf Harris.

 

Roger

[Dave McDonald]

51 minutes ago, RogerH said:

Next time I will go with Rolf Harris.

 

Roger

Steady up Roger. He's Persona Non Grata these days.

Dave McD

[monty]

14 hours ago, Richardtr3a said:

That was a good result. The band that I was trying to remember was Manfred Mann. Thank you for the help. I was thinking they might have  light hair but the moment that I saw the picture I knew that this was the band I was trying to remember.. I used to watch TOTP every week. What do teenagers watch now ? How important is pop music in the modern world ??

Thanks Richard & B

They became the Manfred Mann Earthband. Saw them live a couple of times in London. Excellent!

[Lebro]

I have seen The Manfreds several times now, Paul Jones, Mike D Abo, Tom McGuinness, Mike Hugg, Rob Townsend

Very good !

Bob

 

 

 

[Peter Cobbold]

It's odd, I knew one of the Manfreds had such a beard. Yet I have no "mind's eye": no ability to pull up an image. I recgonise faces OK, and often put names to them, but I cannot "see" them internally. My "mind's eye" is just swirling blackness. Decades ago I did wonder if I was somehow odd as my experience was at odds with other's descriptions, but describing what we experience consciously is fraught with difficulty ( eg does my experience of the colour red match your's?). Recently researchers have established that lack of a mind's eye - aphantasia - is quite common ( ca 5%). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-brain-people-lack-visual-imagery.html  

And I wasn't an especial MM fan. Odd what we remember.

Peter

 

[Kiwifrog]

2 hours ago, Peter Cobbold said:

It's odd, I knew one of the Manfreds had such a beard. Yet I have no "mind's eye": no ability to pull up an image. I recgonise faces OK, and often put names to them, but I cannot "see" them internally. My "mind's eye" is just swirling blackness. Decades ago I did wonder if I was somehow odd as my experience was at odds with other's descriptions, but describing what we experience consciously is fraught with difficulty ( eg does my experience of the colour red match your's?). Recently researchers have established that lack of a mind's eye - aphantasia - is quite common ( ca 5%). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-brain-people-lack-visual-imagery.html  

And I wasn't an especial MM fan. Odd what we remember.

Peter

 

That’s really interesting Peter, I have trouble recognizing people that I know and remembering their names, I had a 20 minute chat with someone that knows me today but I have no idea who they are, I recognised their face but couldn’t for the life of me remember their name 

[Dave McDonald]

On 9/8/2022 at 8:35 PM, Kiwifrog said:

That’s really interesting Peter, I have trouble recognizing people that I know and remembering their names, I had a 20 minute chat with someone that knows me today but I have no idea who they are, I recognised their face but couldn’t for the life of me remember their name 

I know what you mean Thingumajig, whatshername…..

Dave McD

[Peter Cobbold]

Mild Prosopagnosia?  https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2018/jan/29/one-in-50-of-us-is-face-blind-and-many-dont-even-realise