Carl Wayne & the Vikings

Carl Wayne & the Vikings recorded three unknown singles in the mid-’60s, but possess somewhat more name reputation than the ordinary such group because three-fifths of these joined the Move. Originally Keith Powell & the Vikings, the name was transformed when Wayne changed Powell as business lead vocalist. (Powell would record a lot for Columbia and Piccadilly in the 1960s within a journeyman R&B/soul-pop setting, without obtaining any strikes.) Carl Wayne & the Vikings had been a fairly faceless United kingdom Invasion music group, and their two singles on Pye are unremarkable R&B and pop music, only one which (“Your Adoring Methods”) was an organization original. In another of those unfathomable quirks of advertising that sometimes occurred in those times, a third one, “My Young lady”/”Shimmy Shammy Jangle,” was just issued in the us (on ABC), where these were even more unidentified than these were in the U.K. Wayne, bassist Ace Kefford, and drummer Bev Bevan became a member of the Move around in 1966, Wayne going for a great share from the business lead vocals during his four-year stint in the group. Kefford still left the Move around in the springtime of 1968; Bevan ultimately drummed in Electrical Light Orchestra. All six from the tracks documented by Carl Wayne & the Vikings are on the Sequel compilation Brum Defeat: Midlands Defeat Sets of the 60’s.