The Giants [England] - Biography

Tex Cameron - Lead Guitar
Elmy Durrant - Tenor Sax
Harry Kershaw - Bass Guitar
Alan Monger - Rhythm Guitar / Baritone Sax
Kenny Slade - Drums
Tony Vincent - Vocals

Record transferred from live recording by Polydor's Paul Murphy

To copy , unfortunately , the rear sleeve notes , written by David Firmstone being Polydor Manager for Alex Harvey And His Soul Band (earlier wrote for Peter Wynne, Later Producer / Writer for Annabel Leventon ), are the only way to introduce the personnel , namely

So in late in the summer of 1963 The Fleerekkers disbanded following the finishing of the Summer Season at Blackpool (Lancashire ) Tex Cameron ( Who Wrote Sunday Date Elmy Durrant , whom I think might be the Durante on the B Side - Shiftless Sam , and Alan Monger had all been original Flee-Rekkers members. They met in Blackpool Harry Kershaw (In an un-named local band ) and Kenny Slade ( Whom had Just Left Jimmy Crawford and The Ravens)
? http://www.45cat.com/artist/jimmy-crawford & http://www.45cat.com/record/7n25077 ?? ) And their first booking was in October , 1963 at the Top Ten Club , Hamburg where they met as arranged with vocalist Tony Vincent.

Earlier Careers - Tex (Dave) Cameron (Ealing , London) formed The Statesides and in 1960 Elmy Durrant (Edgware, Middlesex) and Peter Fleerekker (Whom Elmy had been at school with) joined , the group then adopted his distinctive name , with Tex writing instrumentals. Harry Kershaw (Blackpool) , when not being a decorating materials salesman , was picking the the Guitar and playing by ear ( still learning to read music when this record recorded ) , but switched to Bass Guitar . Alan Monger ( Hackney, London ) joined the Fleerekkers some six months after the others , and after a couple of years took up Baritone Sax. Kenny Slade (b Canterbury, Kent , but brought up in Sheffield) played with Dave Berry then five months with Jimmy Crawford . Tony Vincent (b London , based Dundee) formed The Men Of Mystery, the joined the Basil Kirchin Band (1960) touring dance halls for 8 months , returning to Dundee , reforming The Men Of Mystery, and winning the Butlins 'All Britain' Contest for vocalists - getting a recording of ' I'm Never Going To Fall In Love Again ' as a reward, and appeared on Teenbeat and so on with the group, when the again broke up Tony went to Hamburg Top Ten Club as soloist , and five weeks later The Giants joined up with him.

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