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Artist
The Deejays
12+ albums
60s
about
Johnny Vallons & The Deejays was a British r'n'b group whose history got started already in the late 1950s. However, after a few years' activity, they haven't got basically anywhere in the UK. The Deejays' recording career began not until in 1963, and that happened as far as in Sweden, as a result of band interchange, which was practiced between England and the Scandinavian countries. The man who made this trade possible was Swe-Disc record company's Roland Ferneborg, whose group the Spotnicks had just finished a tour in England. Besides a bunch of gigs, the Deejays also signed with Swe-Disc, and recorded there five 45s and an album between 1963-1965. The Sweden trip was planned to last just a couple of months, but it actually took over a year. Johnny Vallons had a wife waiting at home, so it was unavoidable that sooner or later he had to come back in England. After Vallons had left the group, also the other members returned but just to find themselves a new vocalist, who was to be John Murray, who used to sing with Erle Morgan's father's dance-orchestra. In 1965, the re-formulated Deejays landed again to Sweden, and the new record deal with Polydor gave them immediately a hit "Long Tall Shorty". They also did a cover of Don & Dewey's "Farmer John", but it got beaten up by the earlier version of the Hep Stars, which broke the Swedish charts big time (in Finland, "Farmer John" was better known by the frantic interpretation of Andy Einiö & the Islanders). During 1965-1968, alt
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The Rubble Collection Volume 13: Freakbeat Fantoms
Rubble 13 - Freak Beat Fantoms
The Dee Jays / Baby Talk - Best Of
Maximum R'n'B
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ISSS 17 - Clap Hands Daddy Come Home - Part 2
Who Will Buy These Wonderful Evils
Baby Talk
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Freak Beat Fantoms
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Freak Beat Fantoms - Rubble Collection 13 - Remastered
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That Driving Beat, Vol. 2
The Singles Collection 1963-1968
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Trans-World Punk Rave Up Vol. 1