Bachelor boys back on top
Last updated 09:24, Saturday, 09 August 2008
REMEMBER the original Irish boyband from the Sixties, The Bachelors?
Of course you do. Well believe it or not after an absence of nearly 40 years (their last top 10 hit album was in June 1969) their latest long-player, I Believe – The Very Best of The Bachelors, has stormed into the album charts at number seven.
After their first hit, Charmaine, in 1962 Con and Dec Cluskey dominated the charts throughout the decade and in 1964 even managed to outsell The Beatles.
They drew the highest television audience ever in the UK (22 million for an appearance at the London Palladium) and shared a stage with stars such as Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdink, Sammy Davis Jnr., Bob Hope, Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper, Tony Bennett, Cliff Richard and The Beatles.
They appeared on Top of the Pops so many times they had their own wardrobe at the show and have an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the most hits with girls’ names as the title. Now there’s a poser for you.
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