Highlighting Singapore 60s Pop Stars: Stevie Loraine, The Clansmen, Winston Walters.

 They came and they went. These were some of the pop 60s stars that were in Singapore then. 

To read about her click below:

https://singapore60smusic.blogspot.com/2010/11/stevie-loraine-terry-marsden-dukes.html

To read about this group click below:
https://singapore60smusic.blogspot.com/2010/11/appreciation-of-singapore-band.html

To read about Winston, click the connection below:

https://singapore60smusic.blogspot.com/2022/04/singapore-pop-60s-winston-walters-dukes.html

Singapore 60s Music Friends: A Letter from Allan Thompson

Hi Readers,

If you have this connection please write to the blog or Facebook page because three great friends want to meet again. This particular note below is from Allan Thompson who writes to this blog very often.

Can anyone out there help these music friends?

Dear Andy, 

I have just been browsing through your excellent blog and came across a post which I had obviously missed before.  Sometime after my very first contact with your blog, I asked if anyone knew what had become of Stevie Loraine.  

I have just discovered that one of your contributors, Kim Reay of Penang, wrote in to say she was a good friend of Stevie's (whose real name is Marion) and that Stevie often visits her in Penang.  

This is good news.  

I wonder if Kim knows my old colleague, Maurice Houghton, who is in his mid-70s and also lives in Penang?  Maurice was at Changi in the mid-1960s and is an excellent pianist.  He used to play for his friends in the NAAFI Club at Changi, Singapore and later played in an upmarket hotel in Bath, Somerset, England.  

Stevie Loraine n The Clansmen - If You Always Say Video by boylollipop1

He has lived in Penang for several years, on the north coast, although I do not know his address, and plays the organ at his local church, as well as playing for friends.  It would be nice if Kim and Stevie and Maurice were to meet up one day.  

I am hoping to send you a couple of stories concerning the New Penangway and Hernando's Hideaway soon.

Take care and very good wishes to you and I love reading the blog.

Allan C. Thompson.

May 2019

England, UK.

Foreigner's Appreciation Of A Singapore 60s Vinyl EP: 'Sir Barclay More'

Article Below Is A Foreigner's View Of Our 60s Music:

"Focussing in music from the past, not reissued, and not easily found in common blogs, here's for you those most special songs appearing in my path; great songs, usually in small places, that broaden hearts and give some brightness to the surrounding nonsense.

With some of the most acid guitars ever recorded in Asia, Sir Barclay More is a quite unusual case of early psychedelia on a Martian context. And even more so, keeping in mind that in 1967 all the area was still hypnotized by the clean Fender of Hank Marvin. If this song came from some of the classic Anglo-Saxon countries, it would more than surely be quite well known by all specialists of the genre. But no. That urgent and spatial Electric Prunes psycho-fuzz comes from a zone not so well explored.

The Clansmen was a band from Singapore, formed by some students of the St. Patrick's School: Terry Abdullah (lead guitar), Derek Nunis (rhythm guitar), Raymond Lazaroo (bass) and Philip Monteiro (drums). They used to back some local singers like Stevie Loraine and, for this, their only record bearing their name alone, they had the voice of Davy King, another artist from the same record label.

This epic song, including a passional murder and posterior execution, was written by Terry Marsden, a singer songwriter who around that time also made some interesting material for other popular local artists like The Reyes Sisters, Winston & The Dukes, Stevie Loraine or the british singer based in the island, Bobby Lambert. Sir Barclay More flies through time and space
CANCIONES ATOMICAS. 20/10/2009."

Image: Philips Record: 338712-PF-1967.

Image/Article: 

http://cancionesatomicas.blogspot.com/2009/10/clansmen-sir-barclay-more.html

Sigapore 60s Pop Stars: Stevie Loraine, Terry Marsden, Dukes, Clansmen

SOME SLEEVES SPEAK:

"Stevie Loraine (left) makes an impact on listeners. The quality of her voice, the feeling and depth in her singing and the instinctive way she has with a song - these belong to one who has been in the business for many years. But not in Stevie's case - for she is an amateur, has never sung in public before this record was made and has never had a singing lesson in her life either! Little wonder, she has been labelled a bundle of 'natural talent' and a recording manager's dream.

So much feeling was put into the song, Moments (written for her by Terry Marsden) that Stevie emerged from the studio with tears streaming down her face. That gives you some idea into the sincerity she puts into her singing.

Listen to the standard, There Goes My Heart; the original composed jointly by Tisana and Terry Marsden: Not Around and the second oldie Watermelon Man and judge for yourself the potential in this new voice.

Stevie Loraine and The Clansmen.

'If You Always Say'

YouTube by: boylollipop1

Stevie's record will not be her last - this girl is all set to reach new heights in the recording world, and she has what it takes too (Philips: ME-0158-SE)."
I think when Zainal Abidin (Dukes bass guitarist) reads this posting he will have comments to make, since the Dukes are responsible for the "basic backing" on this EP vinyl called, Sweet Moments With Stevie Loraine.

Stevie cut another vinyl with The Clansmen (right image) on Philips ME-0196-SE, singing Walk With Me, If You Always Say, Do-Re-Me and It's Gonna Be. The second and fourth songs are originals by Terry again.

The Clansmen sounds like a British group but they are actually our local boys consisting of Abdullah Abu on lead guitar, Derrick Nunis on rhythm guitar, Raymond Lazaroo on bass guitar and Philip Monteiro on drums (back-sleeve cover).

This posting and others with SOME SLEEVES SPEAK labels are only for surfers who do not possess the vinyl but are interested in the information provided about our local bands and singers. There is no intention to waste the readers' time.
Image: Universal Music Singapore. 

Andy Lim Collection.