Howie Casey & the Seniors

b. Howard William Casey, 12 July 1937, Liverpool, Britain. Casey enlisted in the military in order that he could play baritone saxophone inside a armed service music group. Demobbed in 1958, he bought a tenor saxophone and performed in early Liverpool defeat groups, the Tempo Rockers as well as the Large Shades. By November 1959, Casey experienced formed the Elderly people offering Derry Wilkie (vocals), Billy Hughes (vocals), Brian Griffiths (business lead acoustic guitar), Paul Whitehead (bass), Stan Foster (piano) and Jeff Wallington (drums). The line-up was to improve over the weeks with, notably, Frank Wibberley from the Tempo Rockers changing Jeff Wallington. Their repertoire was culled from Ray Charles, Small Richard and Fat Domino plus they known as themselves Derry AS WELL AS THE Seniors like a nod to Danny AS WELL AS THE Juniors. The promoter Allan Williams discovered them just work at the Kaiser Keller in Hamburg and in 1960, they truly became the 1st Liverpool group to visit Germany. Time for Liverpool, these were asked by regional actor/vocalist Freddie Howell (afterwards Freddie Starr) to greatly help him audition to get a recording agreement with Fontana Information. These were asked to create songs about the brand new Twist trend and they slice the entire of Twist AT THE VERY TOP in an evening, thus getting the initial Liverpool group to record. ‘It’s very little of the twist record, ’ admits Casey, ‘we utilized to play everything at 100 miles one hour.’ Appropriately enough, the initial one was called ‘Increase Twist’. The music group got a residency on the Twist AT THE VERY TOP membership in Ilford and performed bookings through the entire UK. When Casey got wedded, he made a decision to relax and disbanded the group. Also an give of administration from Brian Epstein didn’t change his brain. When the Mersey increase happened, Casey returned to music by time for Germany with Kingsize Taylor AS WELL AS THE Dominoes. He became a observed program musician, playing on albums by Wings (Music group AWAY FROM HOME), Elkie Brooks, Cliff Richard, T. Rex as well as the film soundtracks of Tommy and Quadrophenia. He works together with British rock and roll ‘n’ roll experienced Roy Little, backs Elvis Presley impersonator Liberty Hill and comes with an oldies music group, Loose Covers.