Irish Rock Discography: Billy Brown

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Billy Brown

From: N.IRL

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Style: Pop

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Ex leader of The Freshmen, the Northern Irish showband from the late 60s who released the totally over-rated novelty punk single "You've Never Heard Anything Like it" in 1979. "Look What Jerry Lee Did To Me" is more of the same, another novelty record complete with fake cockney accent (again) and this time round Tchaikovsky samples. Less catchy than the Freshmen single, yet more irritating. Described variously as "powerpop" and more recently (and ludicrously) as "synth" on ebay. Caveat emptor! I'm probably overly critical of these singles because I detest novelty records.

Billy Brown was a highly respected musician. He released solo records on various labels during the 1970s.

Solo Discography

• One More River To Cross / Yesterday Song
7" - Hit Records - HIT 17 - IRL - 1971 - PS

• The Leaving of Liverpool / Hello In There
7" - Dolphin Records - DOS 113 - IRL - 1974 - PS?
• Cinderella / Got To Get Out Of The Woods
7" - CBS Records - SCBS5079 - IRL - 1977 - no PS

• Look What Jerry Lee Did To Me / Abandon Chip
7" - Release Records - RL 1016 - IRL - 1980 - PS

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