Royal Showband Recording Session

Royal Showband Recording Session

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Location

Belfast

Year

1961

Date

Length

05min 51sec

Audio

sound

Format

Betacam

black and white

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

UTV presenter Jimmy Greene drops in on a recording session with the Royal Showband. The Royal were Ireland's biggest showband, led by Brendan Bowyer (aka the Waterford Elvis), At one point, the Royal played in Liverpool, supported by The Beatles.

The band's Tom Dunphy is interviewed. 

Notes

Forming in the late-1950s, and enduring until the mid-1970s, the Royal Showband enjoyed considerable success both at home in Ireland - they hailed from Waterford - and across the UK.

Notably, they performed for the Queen, on the Royal Variety Show in 1960.

 

 

Credits

Courtesy of ITV, PRONI and the Department for Communities

Interviewer: Jimmy Greene

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