Vernons Girls - You Know What I Mean - 1962 45rpm

[skippybottom]

The first record I ever played.... Aged about 4

[TheDavidjoy]

I actually bought this record. I thought it was great at the time. However it was ok for the era it was meant for when I review it now. I thought the girl at the time in the record shop looked at me a bit funny!

[cosycleaner]

Fab! Haven't heard this for nearly 40 years - thank you!

[xevcosmo]

Great sound!! Is it True that Margaret Stredder of "the Lady Birds" was once part of this group??

[Inthepostoffice]

Quality.

[geoffpiggott]

Zippgunn sorry to disagree all the girls came from Liverpool and worked for Vernons Pools in Liverpool.



[Sids60sSounds]

@geoffpiggott You're spot-on there, matey!

[Zipgunn1]

That's not a scouse accent it's Manc (or Manchester if you prefer).

[peterzed12]

@Zipgunn1 wrongo



[peterzed12]

@Zipgunn1 you are wrong

[riogorgos]

@Zipgunn1

"That's not a scouse accent it's Manc (or Manchester if you prefer)."

You've clearly never lived in either city.

[Zipgunn1]

@riogorgos actually I have, but on giving it a second listening I will concede that it is a scouse accent. Though all you English Northern types all sound the same to me, with your "Nah-den-pet-man-woman-ecky-th­ump-I'll-go-tut-foot-of-our-st­airs-flat-cap-whippet-balm-cak­e" and what have you.

[riogorgos]

@Zipgunn1

Now here you go again! You must learn not to rush to judgement. First, by your own admission only listening to it once yet you gave the content an idiomatic judgement based on the flimsy evidence of a single hearing. Second "all you English Northern types...." is yet another example of prejudice and stereotyping.. I am not "northern" but happen to be widely travelled and therefore can distinguish accents (between the Beatles & Oasis for example AND THE VERNON'S GIRLS!).

[Zipgunn1]

@riogorgos You're right, I hang my head in shame. Please suggest a way of self chastisement by which I may make amends.

[riogorgos]

@Zipgunn1

Don't know about suggesting self'chastisement, but as a result of your admission, I must make a confession of being somewhat economical with the actuality myself. I am 'northern' I suppose having spent most of my life there although I am now resident in Spain. Had to leave when my whippet died after choking on a balm cake and my favourite flat cap was blown into the sea on the front at Blackpool!

Eee but we were appy!

[TheDavidjoy]

@riogorgos These girls worked at Vernons Pools in Liverpool in the heyday of the Football coupon. So you could not have been closer to being Scouse.

[MrOldiesunlimited2]

Thanks for posting this! Brilliant stuff!

[TheSparkey67]

these gals did the vernons coupons

[peacemanken]

I thought it Venomous girls:) lol

[shmuli9]

Ooh! "Wach!"

[angie31224]

love this going to be sing it a day long

[Leisurecruise]

What accent is this????? Scouser? whatever,, it's absolutley Brilliant!!!

[cbak12sg]

Boys are natural twistaaaiiiiiiiirs

[1lordthorpe]

This record and "Funny all over" although sort of comedy, predate punk by being sung with an english accent.All english singers sang with an american accent------is'nt that pathetic? Americans' can't speak english or spell it. In it's day much of the comedy in this record was hearing the scouse accent, it was unique at the time and pre-dates the Beatles who sang in american accents---pathetic.

[stafylides]

@1lordthorpe

Agree with you 100% it's awful! there's nothing worse.

I cringe when I hear for eg. actor Hugh Laurie in House, even though I like the serial, I don't watch it now (cos hearing him speak with a dreadful yankee accent puts me right off!)

[Leisurecruise]

@1lordthorpe - so did Sir Elton, unfortunatley he atrributes much of his sucess to the fact that he sung with an' American' accent...I even thought Elton WAS American when I was 10, in the 70's...Listen to Corrine Drewry (Swing out Sister) and Sophie Ellis Bextor for more modern examples of singers who didn't 'sell-out' their English accent.

[shmuli9]

@1lordthorpe Why DO most English singers sing with an American accent? On the other hand, saying "it's not English if it's not pronounced EXACTLY the way people in Britain would do" is rather silly, too... (Canadians - the extremely small country north of 'America'), New Zealanders, Australians, Indians, Singaporeans ALSO speak with a not-very-British accent...) But it DOES seem odd for people from the UK to think they HAVE to sing "(North) American" to get a hit...

[0belly9]

love it . x cheer

[doolally69]

Do any of you know if The Vernon Girls recorded as song called "he taught me how to yodel"?

Thanks

[michaelclunkie]

@doolally69 you're thinking of Jan and Kelly's 'Ooh He Didn't' on Philips from 1963.

[doolally69]

@michaelclunkie

Thanks. Now the task begins of finding a recording of it......

[michaelclunkie]

@doolally69 can CDR you a copy.

[michaelclunkie]

@doolally69 for some reason, i can't post my e-mail address in comments. message me through YouTube to sort out details.

[stebear58]

@doolally69 i have cd with the song the Vernon girls did for Decca and it not on that the only track i know of was by Frank Ifield in the 1962 and it was a b side of Lovesick Blues

[xanadufunk]

thanks for posting lovely...bonkers

[pinnell40]

lilly savage sings this song

[pinnell40]

has has anybody else got this single name what do you want for it any resonalbe price ill pay

[normanski29]

clearing out my mum's loft this week and found this single among her collection of 60s hits. Happily sell it to you pinnell40 but what's a reasonable price for you?

[pinnell40]

o come on put my first bid in what do you want

[pinnell45]

@normanski29 hi put in a starting bid you tell me what you want for it if you didnt get my last message still intersted

[normanski29]

hi pinnell45. I'm really sorry but I don't have it any more. It accidentally got thrown away with the piles of other stuff that have had to be cleared from the house. My fault, I should have put it aside and waited longer for your reply.

[inka51]

its just a great song.went to the vernons when they appeared with the beatles,peter jay and the jay walkers in scarborough.what a show.vernons girls where just good!!

[shakeypitt]

Hey, I played bass guitar for Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers in 1960 for a few weeks when Jeff, their bass player broke his leg in a car crash. I was so bad that they got Jeff back as soon as they could, with his leg still in a cast.

[inka51]

yeh ,jeff moss was the bass player with peter jay,a blonde haired guy i remember,good band. can can 62 !!

[shakeypitt]

Jeff had brown hair. The blond guy was Snowy, one of the guitarists.

[inka51]

@shakeypitt .i couldnt work out why peter jay had so many guitarists,was one called buzz?.i played pro guitar in showbands in the 70s being the only guitarist.

[shakeypitt]

My memory of them is a bit patchy now, but there were two sax players, two, sometimes three guitarists, one bass and Peter Jay on drums. He was a shit hot vibraphone player,too. @Buzz@ was Pete Miller, a bit of legend in Norwich. He played led for the Offbeats with a homemade solid guitar; this was when American guitars weren't available in the U.K. unless an individual brought one in. That's how Hank got his Strat. So Pete made this amazing plank, hand-wound pickups with th to be continued:-

[RecordingSchool]

what's all this about? warblerama II was a lovely lilac color! - Bib Boy Pete

[shakeypitt]

@RecordingSchool Hey, Big Boy!!! I know Warblerama II was lilac, but I think Peter Jay thought that all white was better. Did you ever build any more, or was W II as far as you went? You should have patented those beasts; you'd be a squillionaire today!

[shakeypitt]

I vaguely remember Jeff having a brief encounter with the Peroxide bottle, now that you mention it. Could be wrong. To continue the Miller saga:- e most basic tremolo arm setup. He called it a Warbler arm, and I still call them warblers to this day. It had no spring, and he almost ruptured himself every time he used it. After that he built a twin arm version, which he called 'Warblerama II'. Peter Jay poached him fron the Offbeats when they (the Jaywalkers) went pro in 1960. He then bought a lim

[inka51]

they all used vox phantoms when i saw them,i was learning guitar then and wanted to own one! peter jays outfit was original in the fact nobody was using front line instruments in those days.he was ,then along came georgie fame ,zoot money etc

[shakeypitt]

They hated those Voxes, but Peter had an eye for presentation and decided that they would look cool. I remember Snowy hurling his off stage in disgust after one gig. As I was saying: Pete bought a lime green Gretsch Country Gentleman, I think it was, after Warblerama ll. It was probably the hideous colour that prompted Peter to standardise!

[madarch52]

very catchy 60s sound