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1) 60’s British pop trio The Ivy League consisted of members John Carter, Ken Lewis (previous members of Carter-Lewis and the Southerners), and Perry Ford. All three members were session singers who possessed high-pitched singing voices, forming the group in 1964. Although an initial single quickly disappeared from sight, their second single, “Funny How Love Can Be,” turned out to be a surprise U.K. Top Ten hit. Further hits followed, including “That’s Why I’m Crying” and a cover of “
Tossing And Turning,” the latter of which hit number three on the U.
K. charts. The original trio managed to only release a single full-length album, 1965’s This Is the Ivy League, before both Carter and Lewis left the group a year later. With replacement members Tony Burrows and Neil Landon taking the recently departed original members’ places, the Ivy League issued two more full-lengths, 1967’s Sounds of the Ivy League and 1969’s Tomorrow Is Another Day. They scored another minor hit, “Willow Tree,” before changing their name to The Flowerpot Men. In the ’80s, fans of the group were confused by a band going by the name of The Ivy League which performed the group’s hits at nightclubs, even though none of the group’s earlier members were involved. During the ’90s, several best-of compilations surfaced, including 1998’s 43-track Major League: the Collectors’ Ivy League.
2) The Ivy League is a Punk Rock band from Wilmington, NC. The band started out as an Oi! band and as time went on they became a uniqiue style of Punk Rock. Shortly after their CD release tour in 2007 the band broke up and are supposedly re-forming.
1) 60’s British pop trio The Ivy League consisted of members John Carter, Ken Lewis (previous members of Carter-Lewis and the Southerners), and Perry Ford. All three members were session singers who possessed high-pitched singing voices, forming the group in 1964. Although an initial single quickly disappeared from sight, their second single, “Funny How Love Can Be,” turned out to be a surprise U.K. Top Ten hit. Further hits followed, including “That’s Why I’m Crying” and a cover of “
Tossing And Turning,” the latter of which hit number three on the U.
K. charts. The original trio managed to only release a single full-length album, 1965’s This Is the Ivy League, before both Carter and Lewis left the group a year later. With replacement members Tony Burrows and Neil Landon taking the recently departed original members’ places, the Ivy League issued two more full-lengths, 1967’s Sounds of the Ivy League and 1969’s Tomorrow Is Another Day. They scored another minor hit, “Willow Tree,” before changing their name to The Flowerpot Men. In the ’80s, fans of the group were confused by a band going by the name of The Ivy League which performed the group’s hits at nightclubs, even though none of the group’s earlier members were involved. During the ’90s, several best-of compilations surfaced, including 1998’s 43-track Major League: the Collectors’ Ivy League.2) The Ivy League is a Punk Rock band from Wilmington, NC. The band started out as an Oi! band and as time went on they became a uniqiue style of Punk Rock. Shortly after their CD release tour in 2007 the band broke up and are supposedly re-forming.
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Major League: The Pye/Piccadilly Anthology
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Major League: The Collectors' Ivy League
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Tossing And Turning
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The Best Of
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tvideira
S'all about the Pre-Mad Caddies band!
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davidgeorgea
I love this one .Such great Memories and takes me way back to my single year's
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psycheceri
I've been listening to John Carter pretty much solidly for the last few weeks, and he recorded quite a few hits, as well as writing hit songs for many other artists. Yet here on LastFM he's almost invisible - I feel a blog entry coming on.
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antilochus
first! good stuff.
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