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This popular UK act, which adeptly blended soul and psychedelic/progressive styles, evolved from Jaymes Fenda AS WELL AS THE Vulcans, one of the bands to secure a recording contract following the look of them in the televised contest, Ready Steady Win. Previous Vulcans songwriter John Ford (b. 1 July 1948, Fulham, London, Britain; bass) joined users of R&B music group Five Happy Walkers, including Dave Terry (vocals/acoustic guitar), Colin Forster (acoustic guitar) and Richard Hudson (b. Richard William Stafford Hudson, 9 Might 1948, London, Britain; drums). The brand new device was called Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, in honour of lead vocalist Terry’s stage garb modelled following the preacher within the 1960 film Elmer Gantry. Their superb 1967 debut recording included the pulsating “Flames’, which, despite regular looks on BBC Radio 1″s Best Gear, didn’t become a strike. Developing disagreements over musical path resulted in the departure of Gantry and Forster. The rest of the users truncated their name to Velvet Opera, added Paul Brett (acoustic guitar) and John Joyce (b. 1933, Britain, d. Feb 2004, Britain; vocals) towards the line-up, and documented Ride A Hustler’s Desire. The recording lacked the goal of its forerunner, save for the wonderful “Anna Dance Square”. The quartet dropped aside when Hudson and Ford became a member of the Strawbs, with whom they continued to be until 1973. Having created many of the band’s most industrial offerings, the duo after that left to go after their own profession as Hudson-Ford. By 1974, Gantry was fronting a music group which, until examined by litigation, recognized illicit bookings as “Fleetwood Macintosh” as the legitimate article had been off the street. A year afterwards, Gantry emerged once again as vocalist on Stretch’s solitary UK graph entry, “Why Do You Perform It?”, prior to going on use the Alan Parsons Project and Cozy Powell. Previous member Colin Forster briefly caused a fresh line-up of Velvet Opera in the first 70s.
