Darren J ray Quartet @ Carina Leagues Club December 22nd 2012

On December 22nd 2012 I went to the Carina Leagues Club to see the Darren J ray Quartet which it was my 3rd time seeing as well as 2nd time this year as well as 17th time seeing Darren and 4th time this year. The show started @ 7.30pm which for the next 4 hours they 4 FANTASTIC sets doing songs from the 50's,60's,70's, 80's up to now and in some of the sets Darren, Kaitlyn,Scott and Fernando would put on Elvis sideburns and glasses as well as the dark glasses doing Pretty Woman as well as joining the line when they were doing Proud Mary and Darren walking through the audience with christmas bag and also even sang an few christmas songs in the set which was great and suited to the time period. The show finished @ 11.30pm and thanked Darren, Kaitlyn and scott. The show was FANTASTIC which everyone had an great time including myself and Darren and the band were FANTASTIC too with excellent singing by Darren, Kaitlyn and even Scott and also I saw Maria and Wayne which i got an christmas card from them. I look forward to seeing Darren and the band live again in 2013. Set 1- End Of The World Down By The River Build me Up Buttercup Hello Marylou Don't Be Cruel Treat Me Nice Honey Don't I saw HEr Standing There Ticket To Ride When You Walk In The Room Lucky Lips Yellow River Take A Little Maria Calendar Girl Love Was Made For Me and You He'll Have To Go set 2- I need You Now Ring of Fire I swear Waterloo Mickey You Can't Hurry Love My Guy It's My Party Jingle Bell Rock I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus Another Saturday Night Sway Pretty Woman set 3- I Started A Joke Proud Mary To Sir With Love Downtown I Know A Place Aint No Mountain High Enough I Feel the Earth Move Little Sister I Kissed A Girl Lightning Strikes Do Wah Diddy Diddy Eagle Rock Little Bit Of This Set 4- Someone Like You Operator Bad Bad Leroy Brown Passionate Kisses Before the Cheats Can't Help Falling In Love Blue Christmas Return To Sender The Wanderer These Boots Are Made For Walkin All I Want For Christmas Is You After the Lovin On the Road Again Silent Night

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Buddy Holly/Jerry Lee Lewis/Paul Anka/Jodie Sands/Johnny O'keefe Australian tour 1958

Image
this is another new segment on Rockin Luke as we look at the rock'n'roll tours of Australia from the 50's,60's and 70's from the well known tours and to some that don't get a lot of mention so let's start off with the Buddy Holly tour of Australia in 1958. Buddy holly & the Crickets/Jerry lee Lewis/Paul Anka/Jodie Sands/Johnny O'Keefe and the Dee Jays- The Big Show promoter-Lee Gordon Buddy Holly and the Crickets-Buddy Holly,Jerry Allison & joe B Mauldin Jerry lee Lewis Paul Anka Jodie Sands Johnny O"Keefe and the Dee jays- Johnny O'Keefe , John"Catfish" Purser, dave Owens, Johnny greenan, Lou Casch and Keith Williams Dates- Sydney Stadium January 30th 1958 Newcastle January 31st Sydney Stadium February 1st Cloudland Ballroom Brisbane February 3rd West Melbourne Stadium February 4th and 5th This tour in 1958 was the only Australian tour that Buddy holly ever did as well as the tour of the UK an month later as he would be kille
Read more

Vale Peter Flanagan(the Fauns/The Flanagans)

Image
Peter Flanagan member of legendary Australian singing family group the Fauns aka the The Flanagans passed away on September 2nd aged 73 at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Peter along with brother Paul and Sister Margaret began as the Fauns in 1959 as they had been doing classical music training which they released 3 singles on the Leedon label- Dance With Me/Don't Take the Stars, We Should Be Together/While Susan Sleeps and Nursery Rhymes Rock and as the Flanagans they released 4 singles on the HMV label-He/Wonderland Of Love and Dreams(1965), Follow the Wind/Land OF Beyond(1965), You Were Meant FOr Me/That's How Man Began(1966) and This is My Song/For Bobby(1967). the group did appearances on Bandstand,Six O'Clock Rock, Teen Time, The Johnny O'Keefe Show, Sing Sing Sing, the Mike Walsh Show, IMT, Revue 61, Revue 62 and many others as well as performing on the Matt Munro TV special in 1966 as well as performing in the clubs too as well as co writing the song
Read more

Roland Storm , Bryan Davies and the Mighty Guys show @ South Tweed Sports Club June 6th 2015

Image
On Saturday June 6th I went to the South Tweed Sports Club in the evening where I saw legendary Australian singers Roland Storm and Bryan Davies as well as the rock group the Mighty Guys. Dad took me to the Club, signed in, went inside, bought an Pepsi max, drank it, saw Mick Hamilton(had not seen since Sunday June 9th 2013) and Leon Isackson and waited. The show started after 8pm with the Mighty Guys doing a few songs which were classic rock n roll songs with lead vocals done by both Leon Isackson and Mick Hamilton and then Roland Storm and Bryan Davies came on stage which they did a few songs together which then Roland did his set which he performed an set of classic rock songs as well as doing his hit from 1992 with Rolling With the Flow and there was an interval which Roland was selling CD's as I already have them but he came which people bought them as well as seeing Mike Lawler which I mentioned to him about the Rajahs version of a Beatles song on the Australia Salutes the
Read more