The Mark V - Baby What's Wrong - Manny Charlton -1964

Pictures and music used by kind permission from Gerry Macpherson and Manny Charlton.
This song was originally written by J.Reid
The pictures in this video is of their "famous" 400 mile walk to London from Scotland. The Mark V got signed on with Fontana after getting noticed from their 400 mile walk.
Manny Charlton did vocals for this song "Baby What's Wrong" -B side of this record. Manny played the guitar on "Tango"-A side of this record, in his first band known as The Mark V in 1964. Manny would have been 23 years old that year.

NOTE: This video or music is not to be confused with early days of Nazareth. This was Manny Charlton's pre- Nazareth history period.
This recording is from 1964 way before Manny was ever approached to join the Shadettes

The Mark V


There was a considerable resistance in London to signing any act from Scotland in the early 1960's and so to publicise the plight of Scottish Bands and their own name in particular, 'The Mark V' marched from Edinburgh to London by way of a demonstration in the manner of the Jarrow Marchers. By the time they reached Market Harborough, Fontana were convinced and signed them but the resulting single 'Baby What's Wrong'/'Tango' Fontana TF 513 (1964) did little to change anything.

Incidentally, 'The Mark V' have sometimes been confused with 'The Mark Four' who later became 'The Creation'. In fact both sides of the afore-mentioned single were mistakenly included on a compilation album 'The Mark Four / The Creation (Eva 12005)

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[nazfan01]

@highschoolmusical841 Nothing really became of this deal through Fontana and basically the band was forgotten about. Later Manny Charlton and Gerry McPherson (Gerry was in the Mark V band as well) joined The Red Hawks in 1966. (Check out my Red Hawks video as well) It was then that Manny wrote his first hit song titled Friday Night with Red Hawks. Later Manny joined another group and then Nazareth was formed. The Mark V and The Red Hawks records are extremely rare and hard to find..

[nazfan01]

@highschoolmusical841 I was hoping to have explained myself clearly in the description about who the band members were on this record. If you are not familiar with who Manny Charlton is,he is a famous guitarist from the band Nazareth (check out Manny Charlton under Nazareth here on Youtube) This record was his and the band members first recording due to catching the public's attention for doing a 400 mile walk. The Fontana label had them to do covers of this song and Tango.

[hermygagala]

Holy man this is so rare. I need to get a copy of this somehow.