Bedrocks

Created in Leeds, Britain, in past due 1967, this Western Indian sextet comprised Trevor Knowledge (b. Jamaica; body organ), Owen Wisdom (b. Jamaica; bass acoustic guitar), Leroy Mills (b. St. Kitts; trumpet), Reg Challenger (b. St. Kitts; drums), William Hixon (b. Monseratt; lead acoustic guitar), Paul Douglas (b. Jamaica; tenor saxophone). Their big break arrived in 1968 if they had been offered the chance to record at EMI Information with maker Norman Smith (later on Hurricane Smith). After borrowing £25 to employ a vehicle for the trip, they finished an individual within per day. Two times later, their topical ointment cover version from the Beatles’ ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ was released and a fortnight afterwards it was in the united kingdom Top 20. Sadly, their cultural reading was outsold by Marmalade’s chart-topping edition. Because of their follow-up, the Bedrocks documented a version from the rugby tune ‘The Lovedene Women’, however the one received small airplay and didn’t chart. It had been to confirm their last potential for commercial success.