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Although they’re not really too well-remembered today, Emile Ford & the Checkmates accomplished the serious feat of charting lots one British single in 1959, checking a saving career that lasted four years. Ford was created Emile Sweetman on Oct 16, 1937, in Castries, St. Lucia in the English Western Indies. …

Best-known for performing the theme music from your 1978 disco film Thank God It’s Fri — that was probably disco’s most well-known movie following to Sunday Night Fever — Love and Kisses was the creation of producer/songwriter Alec R. Costandinos. With Like and Kisses, Costandinos tended to prefer lush, shiny …

Program keyboardist and arranger Alan Hawkshaw spent some time working with Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Dusty Springfield, Barbra Streisand, and Olivia Newton-John. Just like notably, Hawkshaw was an associate of Like & Kisses, a campy past due ’70s disco clothing that released a trio of albums on Casablanca and obtained …

Originally formed in 1967 simply because Picadilly Line simply by Pole Edwards and Roger Hand, English psychedelic pop group Edwards Hand released three albums just before disbanding in the mid-’70s (1968’s The Huge Globe of Emily Little [mainly because Picadilly Line] featured the talents of Danny Thompson, Alan Hawkshaw, Jan …