Bay City Rollers
By Kevin
@kevin1877uk (36987)
July 2, 2016 7:16pm CST
Bay City Rollers
This evening while I was going through some notifications I was listening to youtube, tracks from the 70’s. I do love yesterday year music, just so takes me back to my teens.
Anyway, a few tracks came on by the Bay City Rolls, which I know made it big not only in the UK but also the USA and Japan. I came across a documentary (see the link) about the Bay City Rollers which I thought was very interesting.
I remember the Bay City Rollers back in the 70 and I did have some of the albums. Can you remember the Bay City Rollers? Were you a fan of them?
Rollermania of the 70's
They had tracks out like Shang-a-Lang and Bye Bye Baby
Rollermania : The Story Of The Bay City Rollers All In HD & Superior Sound
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8 responses
@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
3 Jul 16
I remember them well. They got real popular real fast here and then got unpopular and then pretty much disappeared.
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@kevin1877uk (36987)
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3 Jul 16
@koopharper From what I saw in the Youtube link that wasn't the case.
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
3 Jul 16
@kevin1877uk It took awhile for them to get any notice on this side of the pond. Once they did their popularity didn't last very long.
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@kevin1877uk (36987)
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4 Jul 16
@LadyDuck I think that's the case they never made it to your country.
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@LadyDuck (502316)
• Italy
4 Jul 16
@kevin1877uk This is what I think, because I was pretty up to date with the music bands in the 70's.
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@FourWalls (86634)
• United States
3 Jul 16
I liked "Saturday Night," but they lost me with that woeful cover of Disty Springfield's "I Only Want to Be With You." They weren't that big here, either,, maybe six months before they were bumped off the cover of teen magazines by Shaun Cassidy. I watched some videos of them on You Tube last year and discovered that they LIP SYNCED their live shows.
And I had to LOL at that title, "Britain's Biggest Ever Boy Band." Maybe whoever made that documentary never heard of the Beatles.....
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@kevin1877uk (36987)
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3 Jul 16
If you saw the link they were around in the US for about 3 years on and off. It was made by the BBC and yes they did mention the beatles in the program, however they were saying the rollers were bigger Beatles with the huge number of teens girls following them. I wasn't really around when the Bestles were but was when the Rollers and remember huge amount of girls waiting to see them play once when I was in Great Yarmouth, maybe 75/76.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
3 Jul 16
hadn't heard them in years.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Jul 16
I remember the Bay City Rollers but was never a fan. They were a boy band for girls who waved their Rollers scarves.
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@teamfreak16 (43581)
• Denver, Colorado
3 Jul 16
I remember them. Never owned anything by them, but I do remember them.
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
4 Jul 16
I knew of the Bay City Rollers but never really listened to their music. My strongest memory of them was when a South African musician, Duncan Faure, joined the band. According to Wikipedia that was in 1979 and by then they were just known as the Rollers.
@kevin1877uk (36987)
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5 Jul 16
@Gina145 Not heard that track before, but it sounds good, totally 70's.
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
5 Jul 16
@kevin1877uk I'm glad you liked it. It was one of my favourites back then.
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
5 Jul 16
And just as a matter of interest, this is the kind of music that Duncan Faure was making in South Africa before he joined the Rollers. Rabbitt was really big in South Africa but they didn't stay together for very long.
Rabbitt was a South African rock band formed in 1972, evolving from a band called The Conglomeration. The original line-up consisted of Trevor Rabin, Errol F...
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