January 01 – New Year’s Day Carnival
January 11 – Eden Kane (pictured above) with The Jay Walkers
January 13 – Teenage waltz competition
January 18 – The Allisons (seen above with “Are You Sure”, their number 2 hit from last year which came second in 1961’s Eurovision Song Contest) with Dru Harvey and The Jokers
January 25 – Selection of “Miss Fochabers 1961” in the “Miss Bristol” competition
January 26 – Grand finals of the North Of Scotland Jiving Championships for “The Capstan Cup” and selection of “Miss Bristol” 1961
January 27 – Teen attraction – 1st heat of the Elgin jiving competition
February 08 – Dancing to The Alex Sutherland Sextet
February 15 – Jim McHarg and His Scotsville Jazzmen (this line-up is thought to include Jack Bruce)
February 22 – The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
February 23 – The Glasgow J.W. Formation Dancing Team demonstrating The Checker Twist
March 01 – Emile Ford‘s old backing group – The Original Checkmates plus The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
March 06 – 738 Squadron Dance
March 15 – Emile Ford and The Fordettes (one advert lists them as The New Checkmates)
March 24 – Special Teen Attraction – Second heat of Elgin teen twist contest
March 29 – Florrie Cairns (above) And The Clansmen with Fionna Duncan
March 30 – The Charities Ball
March 31 – The Arts Ball
April 05 – Bob Wallis and Storyville Jazzmen
April 12 – Craig Douglas. Here he is on the BBC’s, “Pops & Lenny” show with, “Lonesome me” from later in the year.
April 19 – Kenny Ball Jazzmen supported by Dean Kerr’s East Coast Jazzmen
April 26 – Danny Williams
April 28 – Special teen attraction Go-Ma-Go Show band star Colin Day with The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
May 03 – Dick Charlesworth and His City Gents
May 10 – The Karl Denver Trio
May 11 – Sounds Incorporated. I’ve mistakenly assumed that Sounds Incorporated were the American band who supported The Beatles on tour in the U.S. but the band of the same name featured above was formed in Kent in 1961 and signed up by Brian Epstein. His links with Albert Bonici make me think this is the band seen at The Two Red Shoes.
May 12 – The afternoon teen dance will be discontinued after today. Restarting again in the autumn
May 17 – Al Saxon (pictured above)
May 24 – Double attraction – The Mudlarks and Donna Douglas
May 31 – Eurovision Song Contest winner Ronnie Carroll seen above performing “Ring-A-Ding Girl”
June 07 – The Terry Lightfoot Jazz Band
June 08 – The Elgin Dairy Princess in the £ 500 Dairy Queen contest
June 14 – Young Unionists’ Annual Dance
June 21 – Shane Fenton And The Fentones. Here’s Shane with “Magic” from the film, “Play It Cool” which hit cinema screen around now.
June 28 – The Alex. Sutherland Sextet
July 05 – Duke D’Mond And His Baron Knights (sic)
July 12 – The Viscounts. Gordon Mills, in the centre of the picture above, went on to manage Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck.
July 26 – Jimmy Crawford and The Ravens
August 02 – Emile Ford and The Fordettes
August 09 – Rock ‘N’ Trad Night – The Original Checkmates plus Andy Elsdon Jazzband
August 16 – Night Sounds
August 23 – Don Charles
August 30 – Mal Ryder and The Spirits
September 06 – Another double star attraction The Mike Cotton Jazzmen plus The Viscounts
September 13 – Jimmy Justice And The Excheckers. Jimmy (seen above) had two top ten hits earlier in the year and reached number 20 around this time with “Spanish Harlem”. He hit the front page of Melody Maker in July with news that after a season of Sunday concerts in Blackpool ended in the middle of September, he was flying to the States for a number of TV dates.
September 20 – Forrie Cairns And The Clansmen plus Jay and Terry Scott
September 25 – Jet Harris and The Jet Blacks. Here’s Jet with “Main Title Theme (from “Man With The Golden Arm”)” which hit the charts last month and stayed there for 11 weeks.
September 27 – The Springfields, seen above with their hit, “Island Of Dreams”
October 04 – David McBeth
October 18 – Craig Douglas plus Johnny and Mike with The Shades
October 25 – Bobby Angelo with Susan Terry and The Tuxedos
November 01 – The Avons
November 08 – The Baron Knights (sic)
November 15 – Don Charles and Gerry Reno
November 20 – Recomencement of Saturday teen dancing
November 22 – Pop package show with The Charlie Galbraith Jazzmen, Barry James And The Strangers with Garry and Lee
November 29 – Bruce Turner Jump Band
December 06 – Jimmy Crawford And The Ravens plus The Checkmates
December 07 – Semi-finals of “Miss North Of Scotland 1962”
December 13 – Shane Fenton And The Fentones
December 20 – Chance Gordon
December 24 – Elgin Folk Music Club carnival
December 25 – The Aberdeen University Students’ Campaign presents A Christmas Beatnik Ball
December 31 – The Hogmanay Dance
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