Pete Dello

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Name = Pete Dello


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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Peter Blumsom
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Born = 1943
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Origin = flagicon|England Oxfordshire
Instrument = Guitar, Keyboards
Genre = Pop music
Occupation = musician, songwriter, session musician, record producer
Years_active = early 1960s-early 1970s
Label = Decca, Deram, Penny Farthing
Associated_acts = Honeybus
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Pete Dello (born Peter Blumsom, 1943, Oxfordshire) is a 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter and now music teacher.

Career

Dello started his career as a musician in the skiffle era of the 1950s and was a founding member of the rock and roll band Grant Tracy and The Sunsets, after which he joined Steve Darbyshire's backing group, The Yum Yum Band, in the mid 1960s. This led onto him forming Honeybus, with whom he scored the hit single "I Can't Let Maggie Go" in 1968.

He wrote songs with all his bands (and also for The Applejacks). The Dello-penned song "Do I Figure In Your Life?" has been covered by the likes of Dave Berry, Joe Cocker, Iain Matthews, Dave Stewart, Paul Carrack and Dana. His co-writer was Ray Cane. Dello was also a session musician, and he was hired for bands like Unit 4 + 2, The Scaffold and The Roulettes.

Quickly leaving Honeybus rather than tour and promote the single, he next cut a solo album "Into Your Ears" in 1971, and also worked with John Killigrew. Ultimately he quit the music industry for other interests during the 1970s.

Discography

ingles

Sunsets
* 1961 "Cry Of The Wild Goose"Grant Tracy & The Sunsets
* 1961 "Say When"
* 1961 "Pretend"
* 1962 "The Great Matchmaker"
* 1962 "Taming Tigers"
* 1963 "Everybody Shake"Steve Darbyshire and the Yum Yum Band
* 5 Decca singles 65-67Honeybus
* 1967 "Delighted To See You"
* 1967 "Do I Still Figure In Your Life?"
* 1968 "I Can't Let Maggie Go"
* 1973 "For You"Lace
* 1968 "People People"
* 1969 "I'm A Gambler"Magic Valley
* 1969 "Taking The Heart Out Of Love"Leah
* 1973 "Arise, Sir Henry"

Albums

* 1964 "Teenbeat" (Grant Tracy And The Sunsets)
* 1971 "John Killigrew" (John Killigrew with Pete Dello)
* 1971 "Into Your Ears" (Pete Dello And Friends)
* 1973 "Recital" (Honeybus) - comeback albumNotable compilations
* 1989 "Honeybus At Their Best" (Honeybus)
* 1993 "Old Masters, Hidden Treasures" (Honeybus)
* 1997 "At Their Best" (Honeybus)
* 1999 "The Honeybus Story" (Honeybus)
* 2002 "She Flies Like A Bird : The Anthology" (features unreleased songs such as "Big Ship") (Honeybus)

External links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:23n20r4ac48x~T1 Pete Dello AMG webpage]