Earl Preston

Guitarist-singer Earl Preston, who later on fronted the bigger group The Realms, organized the Tempest Tornadoes through the early 1960’s, which also included Ritchie Galvin about drums and Cy Tucker performing acoustic guitar and singing. Earl Preston & the Tempest Tornadoes (or TTs) performed through the entire north, and distributed bills using the Beatles as soon as Nov. 24, 1961, with Gerry & The Pacemakers and Rory Surprise & The Hurricanes (see how popular brands evoking big winds had been . . . .), so that as past due as December. 8, 1962, billed within the Davy Jones Present. The TTs cut hard rocking singles of “Harm” and “Thumbin’ A Trip” for the Oriole label (afterwards bought up by Columbia Information in the us, to provide as the primary of United kingdom CBS)–those songs afterwards showed up upon this Is normally Merseybeat Vol. 1. Earl Preston & The TTs afterwards cut “I UNDERSTAND Something” b/w “View Your Stage” for the Fontana label during 1963, before splitting up, and Preston formed a fresh support group, the Earl Preston’s Realms.