Blackpool (Palace Theatre) - Four weeks
Afternoon shows
Desmond Lane
The Ken-Tones
John Barry Seven
Reg Thompson (compere)
"The Tommy Steele Afternoon Show"
Promoter - Harold Fielding
Morecambe (Winter Gardens)
Followed his Blackpool afternoon show
Desmond Lane (The penny whistle boogie man)
Paul & Peta Page (The puppeteers)
The Kentones (Britain's new recording stars)
Mile & Bernie Winters (From television's Six-Five Special)
Aerial Kenways (Sensational aerialists)
Reg Thompson (Umknown to millions)
The Three Martins (Dance cocktail)
Southsea (Kings Theatre)
opened 8th July 1957
Harry Worth
Audrey Jeans
King Brothers
Billy Dainty
The Skylons
Southsea Belles
"Light Up The Town" - "The Gay Summer Revue"
Promoter - Bernard Delfont
Manchester (Palace Theatre)
Sylvia & Audrey (Delightful Dancers)
Jack Francois (Tap Dancer)
Al Roxy & Glenda (Wise and Otherwise)
Duncan's Collies (Canine Capers)
Billy Maxam (Wise Cracking Humorist)
Renee Strange (The Glamorous Puppeteer)
Walton & Lorraine (On The Roller)
01 - Aberdeen (The Capitol)
08 - Stockton (Globe)
15 - Coventry (Theatre)
22 - Morecambe (Winter Gardens)
29 - Southport (Garrick)
Paul & Peta Page (The puppeteers)
Mike & Bernie Winters (From "Six-Five Special")
Reg Thompson (Unknown to millions)
The Three Martinis (Dance cocktail)
ABERDEEN
Los Brazilianos (Novelty and originality)
Ron Scott (Just a wee joke and chorus)
Roy Rivers
STOCKTON
Harriott & Evans
Bob Hatch
Mandos Sisters
COVENTRY
The Kentones (also Morecambe & Southport)
Eleanor Gunter
Aerial Kenways (also Morecambe)
MORECAMBE
Desmond Lane (also Southport)
SOUTHPORT
see above
Full copy of
Aberdeen programme
Full copy of Coventry programme
St Peters Church, Woolton, Liverpool
This is the gig where John Lennon first met Paul McCartney
Blackpool (Palace Theatre)
Michael Holliday (From BBC's Pleasure Boat)
The Four Millionaires (Singing for you)
Johnny Laycock (Crazy music)
Harry Jacobson (I love a piano)
The Three Skylarks (Grace & rhythm in song)
Arthur Logan & The Concert Orchestra
Promoter - Harold Fielding
Full copy of programme (Flickr)
Morecambe (Winter Gardens)
Syd Munson Orchestra
Aberdeen (The Capitol)
Canfield Smith with Snodgrass
Billy "Uke" Scott
Dru & Dijon
Three Brittons
Victor Seaforth
Johnny & Suma Lamonte
Hull (Palace)
Joan Winters & Guy Fielding
Eddie Macdonald
Leon Cortez
George & Lydia
Denise Vane
Gogo & Partner
London (Hippodrome)
Alma Cogan
Vic Hyde
George Holmes
Des O'Connor
Eddie Vitch
Evers & Toni
Allan Kemble & Christine
Newcastle (Palace)
The Morlands
Keith Shirley
Daubney & Fay
Tommy St. Dennis
George Betton
Nottingham (Empire)
Patrick O'Hagan
Johnnie & Duggie Dean
George & Anne Doonan
Nelson Lloyd
The Hillbillies
Flying Comets
Film
USA release date
Bristol (Hippodrome)
It appears that this show didn't take place
Hull (Palace)
Trio Chromatique
Jack Beckitt
McAndrew & Mills
Donald B. Stuart
Jean & Van Terry
Henri Vadden & Assistant
Two Matanzas
Aberdeen (Capitol)
Jack Radcliffe (assisted by Helen Norman & Billy Dick)
Eleanor Gunter (Art in the balance)
Murray Campbell (Ace trumpeter)
Elizabeth & Collins (Knife throwing with a difference)
Anne Metcalfe (From television's "Bid For Fame")
Smoothey & Layton (The fringe of fun)
The Falcons (Falling for you)
Jack Bolesworth & His Orchestra
Promoter - Harold Fielding
London (Hippodrome) - Two weeks
Hedley Ward Trio (vocal & instrumental group)
Norman Evans (Over the wall - The Dentist)
Murio & Sheila (International dance stylists)
Les Mallini (Knockabout comedy)
Arthur Worsley with Charlie Brown (Ventriloquist)
Rey Overbury & Suzette (Musician with twinkling feet)
Pierre Bel (Unique juggler)
Sunderland (Empire)
Vipers Skiffle Group
Pat Hatton & Peggy
The Dernos
Jeffrey Lenner
De Vel & Partner
Dickie Dawson
Ipswich (Hippodrome)
Georgette (Glamour on the wire)
Jackie Ross (Comedy impressionist)
O'Keefe Bros. & Annette (Sensational balancers)
Bill Waddington (Witty willie)
Ann & Bobbie Black (Scottish songs & music)
Archie Glen (Blotto as usual)
Jayne & Alan Howard (International Dancers)
Hippodrome Orchestra - Paul Gomez
!5 - London (Finsbury Park Empire)
29 - Glasgow (Empire)
August 1957
05 - Manchester (Hippodrome)
12 - Liverpool (Empire)
19 - Birmingham (Hippodrome)
26 - Newcastle (Empire)
Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group
Chas McDevitt (Guitar & vocal)
Nancy Whiskey (Guitar & vocal)
Tony Kohn (Guitar & vocal)
Bill Bramwell (Electric guitar & vocal)
Lennie Harrison (Bass)
Marc Sharratt (Washboard)
Chas. McDevitt Skiffle Group with Nancy Whiskey
Terry Dene with his Dene Aces (not Manchester)
FINSBURY PARK EMPIRE
Des O'Connor (Modern style comedian)
Marguerite & Charles (Comedy acrobats)
Billy Revel & Pat Fields (Those friendly enemies)
The Curzon Trio (Comedy acro-cyclists)
Shane & Lamar (Dancing time)
Full copy of Finsbury Park programme
GLASGOW
Jack Radcliffe
Sally Logan
Shane Lamar
Bill Wareman & Marcia
Tony Fayne & David Evans
Garth Meade
Clementi Twins
Sally Logan
McKinnon Sisters
Sylvia
Desmond Marks
LIVERPOOL
Burke & Kovac
Ted Lune
Dickie Dawson
Darly's Dogs
Rosto & Partner
Edna & Jimmy Webster
NEWCASTLE
Jeffrey Lenner (A song and a smile)
Clifford Stanton (Personalities on parade)
Shipway Twins (Hanging around bars)
June Birch (Vivacious trumpet star)
Renee Dymott (The unusual girl)
The Empire Orchestra (Under the direction of Tom Young)
Ron Parry (As sane as you are)
The Kenways (Aerial thrills)
Clifford Stanton (personalities on parade)
Ann & Bobbie Black (Scottish songs & music)
Two Palmers (Equilibrists)
The McKinnon Sisters (Dance team)
Southampton (Gaumont)
Shirley Bassey
Ted Heath & His Music
The SS Mauritania docked at Southampton on the 3rd August 1957
This was his first UK date prior to his series of concerts
The Ted Heath orchestra included Red Price on saxophone
05 - London (Hippodrome) - 12 nights
18 - Blackpool (Opera House)
19 - Coventry (Theatre) - 6 nights
25 - Morecambe (Winter gardens)
26 - Stockton (Globe) - 6 nights
September 1957
02 - Glasgow (Empire) - 6 nights
09 - Manchester (Palace) - 6 nights
15 - Bristol (Colston Hall)
16 - Liverpool (Empire) - 6 nights
22 - Leicester (De Montfort Hall)
23 - Birmingham (Hippodrome) - 6 nights
29 - Walthamstow (Granada)
Bill Waddington (Lancashire comedian)
Raf & Julian (Two wrongs make a riot)
Fredye Marshall (Singing star of Porgy & Bess)
Elimar (Prince of jugglers)
Tattersal with Jerry & co (Ventriloquist)
Gillian & June (Steps in rhythm)
The Hippodrome Orchestra
Promoter - Harold Davison
Fredye Marshall was a replacement for Dorothy Squires who refused to share top billing with Charlie Gracie (see below)
Fredye Marshall
Witchcraft
Wandering Eyes (London HLU 8467)
Released August 1957
Melody Maker
London Hippodrome
Programme - Stockton
Running Order - Birmingham
Globe Theatre Stockton
Sheffield (Empire) - week
Des O'Connor
05 - Bradford (Alhambra)
12 - Sheffield (Empire) - week
19 - Leeds (Empire) - week
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September 1957
02 - Hanley (Theatre Royal) - week
09 - Nottingham (Empire) - week
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23 - Middlesbrough (Empire) - week
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November 1957
01 - London (Metropolitan)
The sister show of "Disc Doubles"
Brighton (Astoria)
Shani Wallis (Vivacious stage, film & TV personailty)
Walthon & Dorraine (Rolling in fun)
George Martin (TV's casual comedian)
Allen Bros & June (Unusual as usual)
Fred Lovelle (The uncanny)
Sylva & Audrey (Dance team)
Plymouth (Palace)
Les Hobeaux
George & Fred Eastwood
Alexandra & Devina
Bonna Dea
Tommy Dee
Gloucester (Regal) - week
Paul & Peta Page (The puppeteers)
Desmond Lane (The penny whistle boogie man)
Mike & Bernie Winters (From TV's Six-Five Special)
The Three Botonds (Thrills in the balance)
Reg Thompson (Unknown to millions)
The Three Martinis (Dance cocktail)
London (Metropolitan Music Hall) - week
Jim Dale ("Mr. Piccadilly Line")
The Carrol Sisters (Aerial teenagers
Ricky McCabe (The new comedian)
Jack Francois (The dancing comedian)
Pillay & Rene (India's sensational chair balancers)
Susan & Valerie Pardoe (Two misses with the hits)
Ivan Dozin & The Metroaires
Stanley Dale presents "The Great National
Skiffle Contest"
introduced by Jim Dale
19 - London (Metropolitan) (see
separate entry)
26 - Derby (Hippodrome)
September 1957
16 - Nottingham (Empire)
23 - Sheffield (Empire)
30 - Leeds (Empire)
November 1957
04 - Chiswick (Empire)
December 1957
02 - London (Finsbury Park (Empire)
09 - Birmingham (Hippodrome)
15 - Barking (Odeon)
Jim Dale
Wally Whyton with The
Vipers
Stan Van (The Zany Man)
Susan & Valerie Pardoe (Two misses with the hits)
Jimmy Edmundson (TV's new star comedian)
Campbell & Rogerson (The spirit of the carnival)
The Betty Fox Eight Dancing Teenagers
"The National Skiffle Contest"
Promoter - Stanley Dale
Plymouth (ABC Theatre Royal) - week
Mundy & Earle
Des O'Connor
Mandos Sisters
Rosto & Partner
Peter Quinton
Richards & Yolanda
De Vere Dancers
Charts
1 - Diana - Paul Anka
2 - Love Letters In The Sand - Pat Boone
3 - Last Train To San Fernando - Johnny Duncan
4 - All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
5 - Island In The Sun - Harry Belafonte
6 - Water Water/Handful Of Songs - Tommy Steele
7 - Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
8 - Bye Bye Love - Everly Brothers
9 - With All My Heart - Petula Clark
10 - Paralysed - Elvis Presley
I bet you know the words to all of these!
