- Pretty Things/Outside Of My Room (Columbia DB 7456) 1965
- Amen (My Teenage Prayer)/It's Such A Shame (Columbia DB 7792) 1965
Danny King and The Mayfair Set
BIRMINGHAM
Last updated March, 2008
Danny King lead singer (left 1966)Dennis "Denny" Ball bass guitar
Trevor Burton guitar, vocal (left 1966)
Roger Harris organ
Keith Smart drums (left 1966)
Dave Ball lead guitar (joined 1966) David Reay drums (joined 1966) Dave Morgan guitar, vocal (joined 1966)
Well known Birmingham vocalist Danny King (see Danny King and The Dukes and Danny King and The Royals) put together a new backing group in 1965 called The Mayfair Set. The band included guitarist Trevor Burton and drummer Keith Smart, both from Aston as well as bass guitarist Dennis Ball and organist Roger Harris.
Trevor Burton was born Trevor Ireson on March 9, 1949 and lived in Whitehouse Street, Aston. He started playing guitar at a young age and was leading his own group called The Everglades by 1963. Also from The Everglades was the Mayfair Set's drummer Keith Smart.
Danny King still retained a recording contract with Columbia Records and his next single recorded with the Mayfair Set and entitled Pretty Things, was released in January 1965. The record was produced by Norrie Paramore and may have featured Roy Wood from Mike Sheridan's Nightriders on session guitar. Despite gaining the band some local attention, neither this or the follow-up Mayfair Set single Amen (My Teenage Prayer) managed to gain a chart placing.
Danny King left The Mayfair Set in January 1966 to become involved with a new group (see Locomotive) and a short time later, Trevor Burton had also departed to become a founding member of The Move and the Mayfair Set disbanded soon after. Keith Smart also joined a new group in 1967 (see The Lemon Tree) and would later play drums for The Uglys and Mongrel before finally making the big time when that group formed the basis for Roy Wood's Wizzard. Dennis Ball joined his brother Dave in the Ace Kefford Stand in 1968. Danny King continued to perform and record occasionally throughout the later 1960s and still remains one of the most respected and admired Birmingham vocalists from that era.
A new The Mayfair Set re-grouped in 1966 after Danny King left. The line-up was Chris Evans and Jim Murphy (both guitar and vocals), Denny Ball (bass guitar), and Dave Reay (drums). They went to Germany where they recorded a couple of singles that were released there on one of the local labels.
Danny King and The Mayfair Set 1960s Record Releases
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