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Ray Ennis’s Swinging Blue Jeans

Formed in Liverpool in 1961 as The Bluegenes, The Swinging Blue Jeans followed virtually the same path to success as many of their Merseybeat contemporaries during the early 1960s.
After playing a succession of local dance halls and club engagements, including the Cavern Club, they traveled to Germany and appeared at the Star Club, Hamburg.
The Jeans had their own 'Tuesday Guest Night' while they were resident band at the Cavern. One of the first bands they invited as their guests were The Beatles!
The Swinging Blue Jeans were originally founded by Ray Ennis and Les Braid.
In 1962, they were signed to a recording contract by HMV Records and their debut single It's Too Late Now in 1963 just crept into the British charts at Number 30.
Their next single Hippy Hippy Shake crashed into the Hit Parade and just fell short of the Number 1 slot. Their follow-up release, Good Golly Miss Molly followed suit and their next single You're No Good reached Number 3 in Britain.

They famously engaged in a punch up with the Rolling Stones at the BBC studios during recording of the first show of Top of the Pops as a result of an argument over a ball point pen for signing autographs.
One of Britain's goodtime bands, they were essential a visual group, and they could never hope to capture the excitement of their live performances on record.
And, after scoring in the charts once more with Don't Make Me Over in 1966, their career went into a steep decline.

However, despite several line-up changes Ray Ennis, founder of The Swinging Blue Jeans, is still going strong.
In 2013 he changed the name in Ray Ennis’s Blue Jeans

Today’s line up features:
Ray Ennis: Legendary lead vocalist/guitarist & founder member starting back in 1958.
Mike Sweeney: Vocals: the vocalist in The Mindbenders with Wayne Fontana for many years and also nationally known as a TV & Radio presenter.
Diccon Hubbard: Bass/Vocals:  A longstanding member of The Mindbenders and toured with many well known artistes including Peter Noone, Billy J Kramer, Dave Berry, The Scorpions etc.
Dave Killick: Drums/Vocals: Former Member of The Commitments.
Phill Orme: Guitar: the bands youngest member and like Mike and Diccon has played with The Mindbenders.

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