GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES FAMILY TREE

This family tree is the work of Bruno Ceriotti. Help in putting this together has been provided by Patrick Vinet and John H Warburg, to whom I'm most grateful.


CLAY NICHOLLS AND THE BLUE FLAMES #1 (ca. NOV 1958 - ca. MAR 1959)
1) Vincente Tartaglia (aka Clay Nicholls) vocals
2) Anthony 'Tony' Harvey guitar
3) Michael 'Mike' O'Neill piano
4) ? bass
5) Alan 'Al' Allison drums


CLAY NICHOLLS AND THE BLUE FLAMES #2 (JUN 1959 - AUG 1959)
1) Clay Nicholls
2) Joseph Roger 'Joe' Brown lead guitar
3) Richard William 'Rick' Hardy rhythm guitar
4) Peter Wharton bass
5) Johnny Watson drums


CLAY NICHOLLS AND THE BLUE FLAMES #3 (AUG 1959 - SEPT 1959)
1) Clay Nicholls
2) Rick Hardy
3) Peter Wharton
4) Johnny Watson
5) Tony Harvey lead guitar


BILLY FURY AND THE BLUE FLAMES #1 (DEC 1959)

1) Ronald William Wycherley (aka Billy Fury) vocals

2) Clive Powell (aka Georgie Fame) piano
3) Brian Gregg bass
4) Clemente Anselmo Arturo 'Clem' Cattini drums
5) Kenneth 'Kenny' Packwood guitar


CLAY NICHOLLS AND THE BLUE FLAMES #4 (JUN 1961)
1) Clay Nicholls
2) Georgie Fame
3) Anthony Paul 'Tex' Makins bass

4) Red Reece drums

5) Colin Green guitar


BILLY FURY AND THE BLUE FLAMES #2 (JUN 1961 - DEC 1961)
1) Billy Fury
2) Georgie Fame
3) Tex Makins
4) Red Reece
5) Colin Green


EARL WATSON AND THE BLUE FLAMES (DEC 1961 - MAY 1962)

1) Alan 'Earl' Watson vocals, tenor sax

2) Georgie Fame

3) Tex Makins

4) Red Reece

5) Colin Green

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #1 (MAY 1962 - JUN 1962)

1) Georgie Fame now also on vocals

2) Tex Makins

3) Red Reece

4) Michael 'Mick' Eve tenor sax

5) Joseph Edward 'Joe' Moretti guitar

6) Nii Moi 'Speedy' Acquaye percussion

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #2 (JUN 1962 - JUL 1962)

 1) Georgie Fame

2) Tex Makins

3) Red Reece

4) Mick Eve

5) Speedy Acquaye

6) John McLaughlin guitar

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #3 (JUL 1962 - OCT 1962)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Tex Makins

3) Red Reece

4) Mick Eve

5) Speedy Acquaye
6) John McLaughlin

7) Johnny Marshall baritone sax

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #4 (OCT 1962 - APR 1963)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Red Reece

3) Mick Eve

4) Speedy Acquaye

5) John McLaughlin

6) Johnny Marshall

7) Ray 'Boots' Slade bass

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #5 (APR 1963 - 1963)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Red Reece

3) Mick Eve

4) Speedy Acquaye

5) Johnny Marshall

6) Boots Slade

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #6 (1963 - OCT 1963)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Red Reece

3) Mick Eve

4) Johnny Marshall

5) Boots Slade

6) Edward 'Eddie' Thornton trumpet

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #7 (OCT 1963 - ca. DEC 1963)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Red Reece

3) Mick Eve

4) Johnny Marshall

5) Tex Makins

6) Eddie Thornton

7) Speedy Acquaye

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #8 (ca. DEC 1963 - ca. JAN 1964)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Mick Eve

3) Johnny Marshall

4) Tex Makins

5) Eddie Thornton

6) Speedy Acquaye

7) Tommy Frost drums (sometimes play him and sometimes the other below drummer)

8) Roy Mills drums (sometimes play him and sometimes the other above drummer)

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #9 (aka #7) (ca. JAN 1964 - APR 1964)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Red Reece

3) Mick Eve

4) Johnny Marshall

5) Tex Makins

6) Eddie Thornton

7) Speedy Acquaye

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #10 (APR 1964 - MAY 1964)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Tex Makins

3) Mick Eve

4) Speedy Acquaye

5) Peter Coe sax

6) James George 'Jimmy' Nicol drums

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #11 (MAY 1964 - JUL 1964)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Tex Makins

3) Mick Eve

4) Speedy Acquaye

5) Peter Coe

6) Phillip William 'Phil' Seamen drums

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #12 (JUL 1964 - SEPT 1964)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Tex Makins

3) Speedy Acquaye

4) Peter Coe

5) Phil Seamen

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6) Michael 'Mickey' 'The Fox' Waller drums (filled in for Phil Seamen in several shows when the latter was too ill to play)

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #13 (SEPT 1964 - OCT 1964)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Tex Makins

3) Speedy Acquaye

4) Peter Coe

5) Bill Eyden drums

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #14 (OCT 1964 - NOV 1964)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Peter Coe

3) Speedy Acquaye

4) Tex Makins

5) Bill Eyden

6) Colin Green

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #15 (NOV 1964 - MAR 1965)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Peter Coe

3) Speedy Acquaye

4) Tex Makins

5) Bill Eyden

6) Colin Green

7) Glenn Hughes baritone sax

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #16 (MAR 1965 - DEC 1965)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Peter Coe

3) Speedy Acquaye

4) Tex Makins

5) Bill Eyden

6) Colin Green

7) Glenn Hughes

8) Eddie Thornton 

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #17 (DEC 1965 - JUL 1966)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Colin Green

3) Glenn Hughes

4) Eddie Thornton

5) Speedy Acquaye

6) Peter Coe

7) Clifford Howard 'Cliff' Barton bass

8) John Ronald 'Mitch' Mitchell drums

GEORGIE FAME AND THE BLUE FLAMES #18 (JUL 1966 - OCT 2, 1966)

1) Georgie Fame

2) Peter Coe

3) Colin Green

4) Glenn Hughes

5) Mitch Mitchell

6 Richard 'Ricky' Brown bass

THE ARTWOODS FAMILY FREE

This family tree is the work of Bruno Ceriotti. Help in putting this together has been provided by John H Warburg, Pete Simkins, Pete Watt and Nick Warburton, to whom I'm most grateful.


THE ART WOOD COMBO #1 (1958 - SUMMER 1958)
1) Arthur 'Art' Wood Jr. lead vocals, harp
2) James "Jim" Willis lead guitar
3) Reginald "Reg" Squires double bass
4) Reginald 'Reg' Dunnage drums
5) "Little" Lenny Case tenor sax


THE ART WOOD COMBO #2 (SUMMER 1958 - 1958/59)
1) Art Wood
2) Jim Willis
3) Reg Squires
4) Reg Dunnage
5) Lenny Case
6) Peter John 'Pete' Simkins piano
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7) Charles 'Chas' Burchell tenor sax (sometimes sat-in as guest)
8) Barry Kerswell alto sax, baritone sax (sometimes sat-in as guest)


THE ART WOOD COMBO #3 (1958/59 - 1958/59)
1) Art Wood
2) Jim Willis
3) Reg Squires
4) Reg Dunnage
5) Lenny Case
6) Pete Simkins
7) Barry Kerswell (now an official member)


THE ART WOOD COMBO #4 (1958/59 - 1959/60)
1) Art Wood
2) Jim Willis
3) Reg Squires
4) Reg Dunnage
5) Pete Simkins
6) Lenny Case
7) Barry Kerswell
8) Gerry Waite trumpet


THE ART WOOD COMBO #5 (1959/60 - SUMMER 1961)
1) Art Wood
2) Jim Willis
3) Reg Squires
4) Reg Dunnage
5) Pete Simkins
6) Lenny Case
7) Barry Kerswell
8) Gerry Waite
9) Johnny O'Donague trombone


THE ART WOOD COMBO #6 (MAR 1962 - 1963)

1) Art Wood

2) Andrew 'Andy' Wren piano

3) Geoffrey Frank 'Geoff' Bradford guitar

4) Kenneth 'Ken' Rankin bass

5) Charles Robert 'Charlie' Watts drums

THE NEW ART WOOD COMBO (1963) / THE GREAT ORGAN-ISED #1 (1963 - ca. FEB 1964)

1) Art Wood

2) Derek Griffiths guitar

3) John Douglas 'Jon' Lord piano, organ

4) Don Wilson bass

5) Reg Dunnage drums

THE GREAT ORGAN-ISED #2 (ca. FEB 1964 - ca. JUL 1964)

1) Art Wood

2) Derek Griffiths

3) Jon Lord

4) Reg Dunnage

5) Malcolm 'Mac' Pool bass

THE GREAT ORGAN-ISED #2 (ca. JUL 1964 - AUG 1964) / THE ARTWOODS #1 (AUG 1964 - SEPT 1964)

1) Art Wood

2) Derek Griffiths

3) Jon Lord

4) Malcolm Pool

5) John Ronald 'Mitch' Mitchell drums

THE ARTWOODS #2 (SEPT 1964 - MAR 1967)

1) Art Wood

2) Derek Griffiths

3) Jon Lord

4) Malcolm Pool

5) Keith 'Keef' Hartley drums 

THE ARTWOODS #2 (MAR 1967 - NOV 1967) / THE ST VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE #1 (NOV 1967 - JAN 1968)

1) Art Wood

2) Derek Griffiths

3) Jon Lord

4) Malcolm Pool

5) Colin Martin drums

THE ST VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE #2 (JAN 1968 - APR 1968)

1) Derek Grifiths

2) Malcolm Pool

3) Colin Martin

4) Steve organ

5) 'Rustic Rod' Goodway vocals