JOHNNY KIDD & THE PIRATES - SHAKIN' ALL OVER
On this date in 1960, JOHNNY KIDD & THE PIRATES were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with SHAKIN' ALL OVER, (August 2nd 1960).
Sadly no footage survives of the band performing the song from back in the day. Instead, I've put together a colour edit accompanied by the single.
Written by leader Johnny Kidd, the original recording was a huge hit in England.
"When I was going round with a bunch of lads and we happened to see a girl who was a real sizzler, we used to say that she gave us 'quivers down the membranes'," recalled Johnny Kidd....
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"It was a standard saying with us referring to any attractive girl. I can honestly say that it was this more than anything that inspired me to write "Shakin' All Over"."
The musicians who performed on the recording were Johnny Kidd (vocals), Alan Caddy (guitar), Brian Gregg (bass), Clem Cattini (drums) and Joe Moretti (lead guitar).
"Shakin' All Over" marked the peak which Kidd would not reach again. Future records did not fare as well in the charts.
In 1961 Cattini, Caddy and Gregg left the band and would later play for Joe Meek in The Tornados. Kidd now assembled a new band of Pirates. Johnny Spence was now added to bass, Frank Farley to drums and later Mick Green would become guitarist.
The band now toured extensively throughout England and into Europe. Adopting a more beat-influenced style, the group reached the No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart with "I'll Never Get Over You"; and split chart action with The Searchers with "Hungry For Love" (No. 20) in 1963; both songs were penned by Gordon Mills.
In time a stage act had also emerged with Kidd and the Pirates dressed as actual Pirates. Kidd donned an eye-patch and carried a cutlass which he would swing around on stage, and high kick in time with the music of the band.
By 1964 the British Invasion was taking shape and Kidd was left in the shadows. Kidd had another new group by this stage "The New Pirates", but recordings had now become covers of R&B and pop songs. By 1966, it would seem that Kidd was on the verge of a re-emergence but this was soon to be cut short.
Kidd died at age 30 in 1966, in a motor car collision on the A58, Bury and Bolton Road, Bury Bolton border, Radcliffe, Lancashire. The car in which he was travelling as a passenger had a head-on collision with one driven by Peter Metcalfe. Metcalfe's 17-year-old girlfriend, Helen Read, also died in the accident. Pirates' bassist Nick Simper, who later became an original member of Deep Purple, was also in the car with Kidd, but he suffered only some cuts and a broken arm.
In hindsight Kidd was both musically and visually important for the rock music genre. Long before the likes of Paul Revere and the Raiders and Alice Cooper and other such performers dressed up for a performance, Kidd and his contemporary Screaming Lord Sutch were already doing so.
Kidd and the Pirates were a transitional band. In a time before bands like The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds and The Animals, Kidd was recording music that placed increased emphasis on electric blues and R&B.
SHAKIN' ALL OVER didn't make a dent outside the UK until Chad Allen and the Expressions recorded the song in 1965.
When their version was released, their label wanted to create some intrigue for the Canadian group and maybe pass them off as a British Invasion band. So, the single was credited to "Guess Who?", which is what is said on the label. Disc Jockeys thought the group was actually named The Guess Who, and that's the name that stuck. Their version went to #1 in Canada and hit #22 in the US.
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