- Lord Rockingham's XI
Lord Rockingham's XI was a group of British
session musician s, led byHarry Robinson (1932-1996), who had a #1 hit on theUK Singles Chart in 1958 with "Hoots Mon ".The group was put together to play as the resident band on the pop
TV programme , "Oh Boy!", which was produced by Jack Good, and shown nationally onITV in the UK in 1958/59. They were fronted by Harry Robinson, and also includedjazz saxophonist and later writerBenny Green , andorganist Cherry Wainer. They recorded several novelty rockinstrumental s forDecca Records , the first being "Fried Onions", which failed to chart. However, the second single, Robinson's "Hoots Mon", a rocked-up version of the traditional Scottishsong , "A Hundred Pipers ", and featuring mock Scottish cries like "Hoots mon, there's a moose loose aboot this hoose!", rose up the charts supported by weekly TV exposure, and stayed at number one for three weeks.Following a legal case brought by descendants of the real Lord Rockingham, which was settled out of court, the group toured and made several less successful follow-ups. They disbanded with the end of the TV show in 1959, although the name was revived for a couple of
album s in the 1960s. Robinson's career in TV and music continued, one notable credit being for his stringarrangement onNick Drake 's track, "River Man ".ee also
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List of British pop musicians of the 1950s
*List of British pop musicians of the 1960s
*List of artists under the Decca Records label
*List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart External links
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