Stevenage (Football Ground)
03 - Bridlington (Spa)
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24 - Leicester (De Montfort Hall)
Sunday concerts
Manchester (Palace)
The Two Tones (Two In Harmony)
Martin Granger's Puppets
Flack & Lamar (Turn On The Taps)
Johnny Silver (Star Comedian)
Rondart & Jean (Champion Dart Blowers)
Tommy Wallace & Beryl (Musical Moments)
Margate (Winter Gardens) - week
The Four Montis
The Rexanos
The Swinging Red Price Combo
Rikky Baron
Derek Roy (compere)
London (Empire Pool, Wembley)
The Allisons
Billy Fury
Bob Miller & The Millermen
Bob Wallis Jazzmen
Brook Brothers
Cliff Richard
Eden Kane
Jess Conrad
John Barry Seven
John Leyton
Shadows
Temperance Seven
Pete Murray (compere)
"The Big Stars of 1961 Concert"
Presented by New Musical Express
Bradford (Mecca Locarno)
"Off The Record"
Mecca opened Saturday 9th September 1961
17 - Torquay (Princess)
25 - Shrewsbury (Granada)
Eden Kane
TORQUAY
Karl Denver Trio
Eric Ford & The Staccatoes
Billy Burden
Cyril Raymond & His Orchestra
Promoters - Bernard Delfont & Arthur Howes
Ilford (Room At The Top) - 2 weeks
His first cabaret booking
18 - London (Savoy Hotel) - two weeks
October 1961
02 - Liverpool (Empire) - week
08 - Dublin (Theatre Royal) - week
16 - Birmingham (Hippodrome) - week
23 - Newcastle (Empire) - week
30 - Glasgow (Empire)
November 1961
06 - Nottingham (Theatre royal) - week
12 - Leicester
13 - Bristol (Hippodrome) - week
19 - Portsmouth (Guildhall)
20 - Hull (Regal)
December 1961
01 - Wolverhampton (Gaumont) ???
02 - Manchester (Free Trade Hall) or the 1st
Malcolm Mitchell Trio
Joe Church
Mike & Bernie Winters
The Salici Puppets
Vic Perry
The Three Sonnettes
Bryan Burdon (compere)
Promoter : Phil Raymond
Cancelled concerts
October 22 - York (Rialto)
November 10 - Hull (Regal)
19 - Southport
21 - Barrow
22 - Whitehaven
23 - Spennymoor
Dance Hall dates
London (Palace Theatre)
Bob Monkhouse
Danny Williams
The DeLaine Sisters
Ken Mackintosh & His Orchestra
with Shirley Weston & Kenny Bardell
Harold Berens (compere)
"An Evening With Shirley Bassey"
23 - Watford
24 - Coventry
26 - Lewisham
27 - London (Ken Colyer's Club)
28 - Surbiton
30 - Norwich
Chester (Royalty) - week
Joan Small
The Two Fordettes
Alan Field
Griff Kendall
David MacBeth
01 - Birmingham (Hippodrome)
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08 - Liverpool (Empire)
Cliff Richard
The Shadows
Patti Brook
The Two Tones
The Red Price Group
Alan Field (compere)
01 - Liverpool
02 - East Ham
06 - Croydon
08 - Salisbury
09 - Wembley
11 - Tottenham
13 - Preston
15 - Nottingham
17 - Reading
18 - Crawley
20 - Southsea
22 - Romford
27 - Sheffield
28 - Spennymoor
29 - Birmingham
30 - Hayes
01 - Colchester (Odeon)
02 - Dartford (Granada)
03 - Harrow (Granada)
04 - Huddersfield (ABC)
05 - Finsbury Park (Astoria)
06 - Kingston (Granada)
07 - Walthamstow (Granada)
08 - Worcester (Gaumont)
09 - Gloucester (Regal)
10 - Wolverhampton (Gaumont)
11 - Taunton (Gaumont)
12 - Portsmouth (Guildhall)
13 - Bristol (Colston Hall)
14 - Southall (Dominion)
15 - Peterborough (Embassy)
The supporting acts varied
Full copy of Wolverhampton programme
John Barry Seven
David Macbeth
Desmond Lane
Johnny Le Roy
Dave Allen (compere)
The Honeys
Gerry Dorsey
Johnny Le Roy
Chris Carlsen (compere)
Promoter - Arthur Howes
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05 - Ireland - 13 days
07 - Brighton (Essoldo)
14 - Stoke (Kings Hall)
Promoter - Arthur Howes
09 - Maidstone (Granada)
10 - Aylesbury (Granada)
11 - Kettering (Granada)
12 - Grantham (Granada)
13 - Mansfield (Granada)
14 - Slough (Granada)
15 - Rugby (Granada)
22 - Bedford (Granada) - week
Bradford (Alhambra)
Rosemary Squires (HMV recording star)
The Mudlarks (Britain's No. 1 vocal group)
Elizabeth & Collins (Sensational continental speciality)
Jim Couton (The topical comedian)
Tom Kraft & Dottie (American comedy adagio act)
Four Zio Angels (In stylish steps)
Alhambra Orchestra - Robert Feugill
Birmingham (Hippodrome)
Michael Cox
Vince Eager
Johnny Gentle
Nero & The Gladiators
Flee-Rekkers
17 - Cannock (Danilo)
18 - Huddersfield (Essoldo)
19 - Hull (ABC)
20 - Lincoln (ABC)
21 - Cleethorpes (ABC)
22 - Bristol (Colston Hall)
23 - Worthing (Plaza)
24 - Cambridge (Regal)
25 - Romford (Ritz)
26 - Dover (ABC)
27 - Gloucester (Regal)
28 - Walthamstow (Granada)
29 - Tooting (Granada)
31 - Woolwich (Granada)
November 1961
01 - Beford (Granada)
02 - Aylesbury (Granada)
03 - Kingston (Granada)
04 - Slough (Adelphi)
05 - Colchester (Regal)
06 - Maidstone (Granada)
07 - Kettering (Granada)
08 - Harrow (Granada)
09 - Mansfield (Granada)
10 - Grantham (Granada)
11 - Taunton (Gaumont)
12 - Coventry (Theatre)
18 - Bradford (Gaumont)
19 - Empire (Liverpool)
20 - Dartford (Granada)
21 - Portsmouth (Guildhall)
23 - Sheffield (City Hall)
24 - Manchester (Ardwick Apollo)
25 - ?
26 - Peterborough (Embassy)
27 - Blackburn
28 - Birmingham (Town Hall)
29 - ?
30 - Stockton (Globe)
December 1961
01 - East Ham (Granada)
02 - Salisbury (Gaumont)
03 - Exeter (ABC)
Eden Kane
Joe Brown
Karl Denver Trio
The Allisons
Tommy Bruce
Chas McDevitt & Shirley Douglas
Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers
Dave Sampson
The Viscounts
Gordon Peters
Terry Hale
Don Muday
Some artists did not appear on all dates
Promoter : Larry Parnes
"A Star Spangled Night"
Coventry (Theatre) - seven weeks
Teddy Johnson & Pearl Carr
Jimmy James
The Raindrops
Joe Baker & Jack Douglas
Desmond Walter-Ellis
The KIms
Regine & Andre Berny
20 - Sutton (Granada)
21 - Kilburn (Gaumont)
November 1961
03 - Lewisham (Gaumont)
04 - Ipswich (Gaumont)
17 - Cambridge (Regal)
18 - Cleethorpes (ABC)
December 1961
01 - Kingston (Granada)
02 - Walthamstow (Granada)
15 - Aylesbury (Granada)
16 - Mansfield (Granada)
22 - Bedford (Granada)
23 - Maidstone (Granada)
Danny Williams
Brook Brothers
Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor and The Galliards
The Two Tones
Red Price Combo
Joe Baker and Jack Douglas
Promoter - Arthur Howes
Date and venue unknown
The Brooks Brothers
Danny Williams
The Dale Sisters
Dean Rogers
Red Price
Dave Allan (compere)
Promoter - Arthur Howes
22 - Bury (Theatre Royal)
29 - Dewsbury (Pioneer)
Patti Brook
Promoter - Arthur Howes
