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Freddie Garrity
Born 14th. November 1936 - Manchester, England
Died 19th. May 2006 - Bangor, Wales

Not only a top musical act (with the Dreamers) but funny with it. Saw him in the Beatles Christmas Show 1964 at Hammersmith Odeon. He didn't lose anything by comparison. His jokes were of the silly type - "They've set fire to the Missionary, Holy Smoke!" - but we all laughed. Apart from Freddie and the Beatles I only remember the Yardbirds, Sounds Incorporated (an excellent, mainly backing, group who I saw a few more times) and (for some strange reason) Ray Fell being on the show. According to bradfordtimeline.co.uk (an excellent site) Elkie Brooks was also on the show, don't remember her but saw her as singer of Vinegar Joe (at Lincoln Pop Festival some years later) and in Windsor in recent(ish) years. She was sensational but I still don't remember her in the Christmas Show. Others I don't remember were The Mike Cotton Sound (although I seem to remember that they made an excellent recording of "Take this hammer"), Michael Haslam and Jimmy Saville(!). Was Jimmy Saville really there and, if so, why don't I remember someone who was, at the time, ultra famous (now infamous)? Another strange thing about the show, I have had it in my mind that Jeff Beck was the guitarist for the Yardbirds but, having checked the dates, it seems that I may have seen Eric Clapton!