The Fourmost

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Hello Little Girl 01:53 Tools
A Little Loving 02:08 Tools
I'm in Love 02:14 Tools
Baby I Need Your Lovin' 02:28 Tools
You Got That Way 02:05 Tools
Baby I Need Your Loving 02:29 Tools
The In Crowd 02:34 Tools
The Girl Can'T Help It 02:25 Tools
Girls Girls Girls 02:25 Tools
Baby Sittin' Boogie 02:24 Tools
I Love You Too 02:05 Tools
So Fine 02:37 Tools
Yakety Yak 02:30 Tools
How Can I Tell Her 02:28 Tools
A Little Lovin' 02:02 Tools
Respectable 02:07 Tools
Girls, Girls, Girls 02:28 Tools
Heebie Jeebies 01:58 Tools
Sure To Fall (In Love With You) 02:18 Tools
He Could Never 02:33 Tools
Why Do Fools Fall In Love 02:03 Tools
Just In Case 02:42 Tools
That's Only What They Say 02:03 Tools
Everything In The Garden 01:52 Tools
Till You Say You'Ll Be Mine 00:00 Tools
Some Kind Of Wonderful 00:00 Tools
Today I'M In Love 00:00 Tools
Turn The Lights Down 00:00 Tools
Here, There And Everywhere 00:00 Tools
Auntie Maggie's Remedy 00:00 Tools
My How The Time Goes By 00:00 Tools
My Block 00:00 Tools
You'Ve Changed 00:00 Tools
Stop 00:00 Tools
Some Kind Of Wonderful - Stereo;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Waitin' For You 00:00 Tools
Waiting For You 00:00 Tools
Dawn (Go Away) 00:00 Tools
Damn (Go Away) 00:00 Tools
Rosetta 00:00 Tools
Something's Got A Hold On Me 00:00 Tools
Bound To Lose My Heart 00:00 Tools
I Love You Too - Mono Version; 1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
I Love You Too (Mono Version) (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Something's Got A Hold On Me (Mono) 02:55 Tools
Some Kind Of Wonderful - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
A Little Lovin 00:00 Tools
Easy squeezy 00:00 Tools
Just Like Before 00:00 Tools
Yakety Yak (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Some Kind of Wonderful - Stereo; 1997 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Something's Got A Hold On Me - Stereo;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
The In Crowd (Mono) 00:00 Tools
Heebie Jeebies (Mono) 00:00 Tools
I’m in love 00:00 Tools
Hello Little Girl - Re-Recording 00:00 Tools
Do I Know You 00:00 Tools
Till You Say You'll Be Mine (Mono) 00:00 Tools
I Love You Too (Mono Version) 00:00 Tools
The 'In' Crowd 00:00 Tools
Little Loving 00:00 Tools
Today I'm In Love (Mono) 00:00 Tools
My Block (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
A Little Loving - Re-recording 00:00 Tools
Baby Sittin' Boogie (Mono) 00:00 Tools
I Love You Too (Stereo) - 1997 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Sure To Fall (In Love With You) (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Baby, I Need Your Lovin' 00:00 Tools
Girls Girls Girls (Stereo) - Remastered 1997 00:00 Tools
My Block - Mono;1997 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
You Got To Live For Yourself 00:00 Tools
So Fine (Mono) 00:00 Tools
Baby, I Need Your Loving 00:00 Tools
My Block - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
I Love You Too - Stereo Version; 1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
The In Crowd (Stereo) 00:00 Tools
The "In" Crowd 00:00 Tools
Baby Sittin' Boogie (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Hello, Little Girl 00:00 Tools
Till You Say You'll Be Mine (Stereo) 00:00 Tools
Some Kind Of Wonderful (Mono) 00:00 Tools
My Block (Mono) 00:00 Tools
Loyalty 00:00 Tools
Hello Little Girl - 1963 00:00 Tools
Something's Got A Hold On Me - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Yakety Yak - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Turn The Light Down 00:00 Tools
A Little Loving - 1964 02:07 Tools
So Fine (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Hello Little Girl (1963) 00:00 Tools
Bound To Lose My Heart (Mono) 00:00 Tools
Baby I Need Your Loving 1964 00:00 Tools
The Girl Can't Help It (Mono) 00:00 Tools
Sure To Fall (In Love With You) (Mono) 00:00 Tools
For Ourselves 00:00 Tools
Between Yesterday And Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
Till You Say You'll Be Mine - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Heeble Jeebies 00:00 Tools
Bound To Lose My Heart - Stereo;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Something's Got A Hold On Me (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Today I'm In Love (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Yakety Yak (Mono) 00:00 Tools
Before My Time 00:00 Tools
Till You Say You'll Be Mine (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Girls Girls Girls - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Some Kind of Wonderful - Mono; 1997 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Baby Sittin' Boogie - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
I'm In Love. 00:00 Tools
I Love You Too - Mono Version;1997 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Girl Can't Help It 00:00 Tools
I Need Your Lovin' 00:00 Tools
I'm In Love - Re-Recording (by Original Artist) 00:00 Tools
The In Crowd (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Baby Sittin Boogie 00:00 Tools
So Fine - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Sure To Fall (In Love With You) - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Heebie Jeebies - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Hello Little Girl - Re-Recording (by Original Artist) 00:00 Tools
Bound To Lose My Heart - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Bound To Lose My Heart - Stereo;1997 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Love You Too 00:00 Tools
I´m In Love 00:00 Tools
Girls Girls Girls (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Something's Got A Hold On Me (Stereo) 00:00 Tools
So Fine (Stereo) 00:00 Tools
Break 00:00 Tools
The Girl Can't Help It - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
The In Crowd - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Today I'm In Love - Mono;1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
I'm In Love (1963) 00:00 Tools
I Love You Too (Mono) 00:00 Tools
Hello Little Girls 00:00 Tools
Yakety Yak (Stereo) (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Girls Girls Girls (Mono) 00:00 Tools
Girls Girls Girls (Stereo) (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Till You Say You 00:00 Tools
Bound To Lose My Heart (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Help Through 00:00 Tools
Coming to an end 00:00 Tools
Don't 00:00 Tools
Yakerty Yak 00:00 Tools
Down at the Club 00:00 Tools
i`m in love 00:00 Tools
Fourmost - Hello Little Girl 00:00 Tools
Baby Sittin' Boogie (1965) 00:00 Tools
Love You Too (Stereo) 00:00 Tools
Baby Sittin' Boogie (Stereo) (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Baby Sittin' Boogie (Stereo) 00:00 Tools
Sure To Fall (In Love With You) (Stereo) (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Hello Little Girl - The Fourmost 00:00 Tools
The Fourmost - I'm in love 00:00 Tools
Yakety Yak (Stereo) 00:00 Tools
I Love You To 00:00 Tools
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The Fourmost were an English Merseybeat band that recorded in the 1960s. Their biggest UK hit single was "A Little Loving" in 1964. Guitarist/vocalist Brian O'Hara and best friend guitarist/vocalist Joey Bower (born Joseph Bower, 17 November 1939, Dingle, Liverpool, Lancashire) formed the Two Jays in 1957. The group changed its name to the Four Jays in September 1959 when bass guitarist/singer Billy Hatton and drummer Brian Redman (born 21 June 1941, Huyton, Liverpool, Lancashire) joined the group. The Four Jays played at the Cavern Club on 1 March 1961, nearly three weeks before the Beatles. Rhythm guitarist/singer Mike Millward (ex-the Undertakers) joined the Four Jays in November 1961, followed by drummer/singer Dave Lovelady in September 1962. The band changed its name to the Fourmost in October 1962. On 30 June 1963, the group signed a management contract with Brian Epstein. This led to their being auditioned by George Martin and signed to EMI's Parlophone record label. With Epstein as their manager, the Fourmost (like Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, Peter and Gordon and Tommy Quickly) had access to early Lennon–McCartney compositions. The Fourmost's first two singles were written by John Lennon. "Hello Little Girl", one of the earliest Lennon songs (written in 1957) was released on 30 August 1963 and reached No. 9 in the UK. Their follow-up single, "I'm in Love" (Lennon–McCartney), was released on 15 November 1963 and reached No. 17 in the UK. It was also notable as one of the earliest Beatles-penned songs to be released in the United States but, as with the Fourmost's other singles, it failed to chart there. Their biggest hit followed. "A Little Loving", written by Russ Alquist, reached Number 6 in the UK Singles Chart in mid 1964. From then on, none of the group's singles cracked the Top 20 in the UK. "How Can I Tell Her", was followed by a cover version of the Four Tops' "Baby I Need Your Loving", sung by Millward, while Hatton took lead vocal on "Everything in the Garden", and "Girls Girls Girls" (originally recorded by the Coasters and a hit for Elvis Presley). Brian O'Hara composed most of their original songs, which were used as 'b' sides including 'Waitin For You', 'That's Only What They Say', 'He Could Never', and 'You Got That Way'. On the group's only sixties album, First and Fourmost, from September 1965, they covered Jackie DeShannon's "Till You Say You'll Be Mine". Other tracks included "My Block" sung by Hatton and written by Jimmy Radcliffe, Carl Spencer and Bert Berns (originally a hit for the Chiffons in 1963), Millward sang a re-make of "The In Crowd" which featured the brass section from Sounds Incorporated, and Hatton sang two cover versions of Little Richard's "The Girl Can't Help It" and "Heebie-Jeebies". The band appeared in the 1965 film, Ferry Cross the Mersey and on the soundtrack album of the same name singing 'I Love You Too' (which appeared in two totally differing versions mono to stereo). In early 1966 the band were rocked by the sudden death of rhythm guitarist/vocalist Mike Millward, a featured lead vocalist. They recruited George Peckham as replacement. In August 1966, the Fourmost covered another Beatles' song, "Here, There and Everywhere", followed by a cover of George Formby's "Auntie Maggie's Remedy" in November 1966. The latter song was representative of a comedic element to some of the group's recordings. George Peckham wrote and sang The country-influenced "Turn the Lights Down Low" (the b-side of "Auntie Maggie's Remedy"), a short-lived effort to branch out to less pop-oriented fare. In 1968, now on the CBS record label, they recorded "Apples, Peaches And Pumpkin Pie", an R&B hit by Jay & the Techniques, followed by "Rosetta" (suggested by Paul McCartney, who played piano on it), and "Easy Squeezy". The group soon stopped recording, and became popular on the cabaret circuit. George Peckham left the band in 1969 to run a recording studio. Original member Joey Bower returned to the band as replacement, a later private pressing album; The Fourmost - featured O'Hara, Hatton, Lovelady and Bower - which included covers such as "Without You", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Rag Doll" and "Save The Last Dance For Me" was sold at their shows in 1975. Hatton, Lovelady and Bower all left in 1980 while O'Hara continued the group with new members, although a version of the band featuring O'Hara and older members Hatton and Lovelady did once perform at the new Cavern Club. O'Hara eventually dropped out selling the band's name. A later line up featuring longtime later member bassist/singer Bill Haisman (who had been in the later group alongside Brian O'Hara) plus John Richards (lead guitar, vocals), Gary Pearson (guitar, vocals) and Kevin Clarkson (drums, vocals) released a DVD and CD titled, The Fourmost Live at The Club Tropicana, featuring recording of a show recorded in Skegness on 7 April 2007. They performed both "Hello Little Girl" and "A Little Loving" among other covers of 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s hit songs. Bill Haisman later retired. A touring version of the band continued led by drummer/vocalist Kevin Clarkson, with Alex Leyland (rhythm guitar, vocals), Colin Walsh (lead guitar, vocals) and Lee Clarkson (bass guitar, vocals). Charley Records later issued a 20 track compilation album also titled First and Fourmost, while EMI Records later released a CD stereo/mono version of the original 1965 album in 1999. In 2005, they also released a 33 track CD compilation The Best of The Fourmost, which included the stereo version of "I Love You Too", and four previously unreleased songs with booklet notes written by Billy Hatton. Mike Millward died from leukaemia in 1966. Brian O'Hara took his own life in 1999. Billy Hatton died in 2017. Original band members Brian O'Hara, born 12 March 1941, Dingle, Liverpool, died 27 June 1999, Wavertree, Liverpool (suicide), vocalist/lead guitarist, from June 1962 Mike Millward, born Michael Millward, 9 May 1942, Bromborough, Cheshire, died 7 March 1966, at Clatterbridge Hospital, Bebington, Cheshire, rhythm guitarist/vocalist, from June 1962 Billy Hatton, born William Hatton, 9 June 1941, Dingle, Liverpool,, bassist/vocalist died 19 September 2017, Liverpool Dave Lovelady, born David Lovelady, 16 October 1942, Litherland, Liverpool, drummer/vocalist, from September 1962 Discography Singles YearSingleChart positions UK[6]AUUS 1963"Hello Little Girl"9-- "I'm In Love"17-- 1964"A Little Loving"698- "If You Cry" (US Only)--- "How Can I Tell Her"33-- "Baby I Need Your Loving"2463- 1965"Everything in the Garden"--- "Girls Girls Girls"3321- 1966"Here, There and Everywhere"--- "Auntie Maggie's Remedy"-43- 1968"Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie"--- "Rosetta"--- 1969"Easy Squeezy"--- Read more on Last.fm. 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