Decades of joy for Derby s mayor and mayoress
The pair will celebrate their Diamond Wedding later this month
Cllr Frank Harwood and his wife Anita during mayoral duties in July 2019 (Image: Derby Telegraph)
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Joe Loss, Benny Goodman and Glen Miller were popular too, their numbers expertly adapted by the resident bands, one of which was Hughie Webb. Hughie was a great leader but liked things spot-on. If the tempo was a little out the dancers would complain and Hughie used to really lay it on to us before we started. The amazing thing was, after giving us a roasting, he would turn to the audience in his inimitable way and sweetly announce the next dance. Henry and his colleagues played the Majestic well into the 60s, but times were changing. Local pop groups were gaining in popularity, Henry recalls, and soon we had to stand down on Monday nights or at least share the evening.
We re the oldest boy band in Ireland
Chris Dunne interviews the authors of a new book on the bands of Bandon.
Michael McCarthy and Jerry Larkin, who wrote 100 years of Bandon Bands
Chris Dunne
THE town of Bandon has a long tradition of music and many people all over Cork will recall those halcyon days dancing at the crossroads, dancing in the ballrooms of romance, and rocking n’rolling in dance-halls and marquees all over the country.
“As a musician or a band, you know you’re doing something right when you get booked to play at a wedding in two years’ time!” says Michael McCarthy, of The Old Town Hall Band.