What Happened to The Tremeloes?

[pamstringer]

I am in the UK and the Tremeloes with Chesney Hawkes toured the UK last month. They even sang Silence is Golden! The show was in Leeds and there were many bands from the 60s. My friends and I relived our youth and enjoyed every minute of it!

[markfettig]

Silence Is Golden was originally recorded by the 4 Seasons. It was the flip side of Rag Doll.

[neridarobinson]

Will always best one of the best! Love the harmonies.

[darrenlucas]

My Mums cousin was Allan Blakley, we had a great family, grew up with the Trems. Silence is Golden is my best hit for them. Miss Allan and now Dave has left us, RIP

[josephfisher]

I love The Tremeloes they are underrated
here my top 10 songs from Tremeloes
10 - Say O.K.
09 - Blue Suede Tie
08 - Here Comes My Baby
07 - My Little Lady
06 - Silence Is Golden
05 - Me and My Life
04 - Suddenly You Love Me
03 - Happy Song
02 - Hello World
01 - (Call Me) Number One

[willieg]

Here comes my baby was their best tune in my opinion.

[michaelcox]

Silence is golden was a better song. The harmony in the vocals is really good.

[Kevin-mxvi]

The Trems were a good band with strong material, but got kinda left behind by changing musical styles, and their younger fans went on to follow more progressive bands in the early 70's.

[peterchecksfield]

Regarding The Beatles' Decca audition.

I recently published a book on The Tremeloes ('The Tremeloes: Even The Bad Times Are Good!'), and I've interviewed surviving members extensively.

Contrary to them only being signed because they lived close to London, there were very likely other factors too:

(a) "The Tremilos", as they were simply called prior to being signed, were already recording for Decca in 1961 - at least as a vocal trio consisting of Brian Poole, Alan Blakley and Dave Munden, who sung on many sessions for others.

(b) Another reason they were probably signed is because they were regularly appearing on the nationwide-broadcast BBC 'Saturday Club' throughout 1961, despite not being signed to a label. This was before The Beatles had even appeared on a local radio show of course.

(c) Additionnally, Brian Poole swears today that their audition was sometime in late 1961, and definitely NOT on New Year's Day 1962. Here's what he told me recently:

“This was sometime in 1961, not, as it says in lots of books, New Year’s Day, when The Beatles did their audition for Decca. I think we had been in Decca before, so this doesn’t stick in my memory much. We played all our Rock and Roll songs plus some vocal harmony songs, don’t know which ones, but mostly loud and fast. Lots of bands came to these auditions, and we and The Beatles were only two of them, but it essentially came down to us or them.”

[MarliRadke]

Amo tremeloes e muitas bandas desta época marcaram a minha juventude 😊 aqui no Brasil fizeram muito sucesso até hoje escuto e graças ao you tube posso velos e saber da história de todos de cada banda inclusive eles ❤😊

[Odo]

Dreamy Tremeloes. What an era of true musicians with great harmonies. Great Britain gifted the world with this era of so many beautiful songs 💖

[derekstocker]

Excellent history of a band from my youth.
Would have been even better if segments of tracks could have been played as part of this but presumably copyright issues may have caused problems.

[carlomiller]

"Silence is Golden" was the first of the Tremeloes songs I heard and really liked in 1964? I think was the year. I was 10 years old. And the only other of the Tremeloes songs I was aware of and really liked was "Here Comes My Baby." I'm from the USA so we here in the USA might not have heard a lot of the Tremeloes songs on top 40 AM radio.

[LawrenceHenson]

I worked at a Daimler/Jaguar agents in Egham in the 60s/70s, Chip Hawkes purchased vehicle from the company(as did Tom Jones & Engelbart Humperdinck) & I remember him bringing Chesney along with him, as a baby!

[hpfnuqj]

... silence is golden is my favorite but the bass line in there goes my baby is a classic bass of sixties music 🎵

[stephenbastasch]

Great informative retrospective - low-key, detailed and respectful. Thank you.

[heli-crewhgs]

7:55 Mick Avery was the Kinks’ drummer. He was never in the Hollies. Bobby Elliot was the Hollies’ drummer.

[andrewarthurmatthews]

So good to see the pirate offshore radio station Radio Northsea International get a mention.

[bobwallace]

When they were a thing in the sixties, they had a lot of transistor radio airplay. I was still in elementary school then and always thought they were a California band. They sure sounded like one. Their biggest goof up was not recording Yellow River as their own. Instead they tried the psychedelic avenue that didn't pan out.

[stubaker]

Hey they were very well liked during the 60's and AM radio top40 they seemed to have songs pretty regular..harmony and more "pop-ish" than older listener's maybe was turning toward a new wave of different style's and new bands hitting the air waves but I liked their stuff and still do..Im that old...it was groovy