The Barnyard Theatre 29th Feb, 11:00 am in 3 days 1 music gig film
festival competition theatre 29th Feb, 01:00 pm Emperors Palace
Barnyard 29 Feb - (Sat) - 13:00 Price: R200 The Barnyard Theatre in
partnership with Luvroc Entertainment and LM Radio proudly present THE
STACCATOS REVIVAL. The band was formed by Brian Le Gassick in 1961
while he was studying at Damelin College During 1962 and 1963 the band
played many sessions and other gigs around Johannesburg and the Reef
In the latter part of 1963 a competition, which became known as the
“Beatles Of South Africa”, was organised and the band played
together with many other groups at cinemas in the East Rand,
throughout Johannesburg and also in the West Rand All the competing
bands would appear before interval and the main feature movie This
culminated in the finals featuring 4 bands at the Colosseum Theatre in
Johannesburg in April of 1964 The Staccatos won and part of the prize
was a recording contract with EMI SA’s first Super Group “Come
back Silly Girl” entered the charts on 17 December 1965 and reached
the number two position on the Springbok Hit Parade. The song put the
Band on the map, as this was also their first chart topper. The
Staccato’s entered the Springbok Radio hit parade in August 1968 (50
years ago) with the Terry Dempsey composition ‘Butchers and
Bakers’. ‘B&B’ spent 10 weeks on the chart peaking at number 2.
A few months later Billy Forrest took them into the Studio and
recorded ‘Cry to me.’ The song went to #1 and spent 38 weeks on
the chart during 1969!!!. No other local or international hit featured
on Springbok Radio hit parade could ever improve on this exceptional
chart run of 38 weeks. The song’s popularity surged after The
Staccato’s had performed the song live in the controversial movie
‘Katrina’. We wonder if anyone knows how many copies of the single
were sold in SA in the late sixties/early seventies? They were the
first Band in SA to receive four Gold Records for ‘Cry to me’, for
sales in excess of 400 000 at the time. The Band also received a Sarie
award in 1970 as "Top Beat Group“. The Band disbanded at the end of
1999. To this day, most radio stations still play this monster hit,
and it’s a crowd favourite at any function. SHOW MORE Buy Tickets
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