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. Twist & Shout
by: Brian Poole & The Tremeloes
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While Brian Poole & the Tremeloes are hardly essential to British Beat of the 60s they will nevertheless go down in history as the group Decca signed instead of the Beatles and before the Liverpudlians had cut their first Parlophone single they'd made 2 singles and an album of covers-the first of which was Twist little Sister-perhaps their greatest disc compared to the opportunism which followed.
Which of course was to cover Twist & Shout,then a track on the first Beatles LP as well as an EP.The dumb reasoning behind this was "buy our version its cheaper".
The first chart topper came shortly after in the form of a Motown song called Do you love me-which had already been out by the Contours and was also covered by the Dave ... Read More:
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