Cavern After Hours

The Seftons was formed in 1964 at the King David School Childwall Liverpool the original line up consisted of

• Dave Stephenson keyboards and lead singer
• Yanny Tsamplakos lead guitar and vocals
• Mike Baron drums
• Dave Edwards bass guitar and vocals
  ( later when they changed their name to the Perishers )
• Norman Bellis took over on bass guitar.
  ( Later to be replaced by )
• Peter Combes bass guitar

THE PERISHERS (Yankee Horse)

Discs or records from these guys included:
The Seftons I can see through you / Here today 67
as The Perishers How Does It Feel /Bye Bye Baby 69

as Yankee Horse Louisiana / 70

Plus when they got back together again this time calling themselves WORTH they knocked up yet another three singles before they finally called it day and all went their separate ways.

What a lot of people didn’t know, as a side line the Sefton’s were doing work for Fontana records on albums or, LP’s as we called them back then. These albums gave no credit to the actual artist performing on them. Nevertheless they were marketed and called “Sounds Like Hits” Volume 1, 2, 3 and so on.

Side 2 of volume 1 has an amazing version of Joanna. The song was originally recorded by Scott Walker of the Walker Brothers during the late 60′s and got quite high up the charts.

As said, the album cover gave no credit to who ever actually did the cover of the song. Maybe thinking about it, as some of the songs covered were not the best, that was not such a bad thing.

But as far as the cover of Scott Walkers Joanna is concerned, I think a mention for the singer concerned ” Dave Stephenson from the Seftons” would not of gone a miss. Dave’s cover really is that good. Its ironic around the time these albums were sold. you could pick one up for around 12/6p. Yes just twelve shillings and six pence. Beat that, a whole album twelve current songs direct from the hit parade for less than 70p. Has to be a bargain.

The Sefton’s got together at school. By a stroke of luck Yanni, Dave, and Mike were in the same class. The first gig the group played was in 1963. The Seftons then progressed to The Cavern on November 14th 1964 at the Junior Cavern Club. Dave Edwards the original bass player remained in the group until they decided to move to London. That was around July 1968 Dave left the group and new bass player Norman Bellis joined the line up. Norman first played in ” Them Calderstones ” of which Tommy Evans from Badfinger first played with Norman. The Seftons became The Perishers then Worth. Along the way they had several singles released but sadly no hits.

As time moved on, Yanni and Norman wrote Smile your on Candid Camera in 1973 and Yanni sang the Theme tune. Three of what was the Seftons etc. are still in bands and playing, Yanni is currently in The Beat Legends, Norman, The Horse Band and Mike Gertcha a Chas and Dave tribute, Dave has now give up playing, but still is writing songs. None of the guys have returned to Liverpool as they all live in the South thankfully still healthy. Long may they play on.