(c’57) Ray Colt (guitar), Tony Phillips (guitar), Peter Smith (double bass), Jeffery “Texas” Smithers (?), David Ellis (?) and Bob Stonard (guitar).
This Sheerwater skiffle band used to practice in the front room of 39 Bentham Avenue, later moving to the Y.M.C.A. Woking. Originally pulled together by Colt, the band started as a 5-piece with Colt, Phillips, Ellis, Smithers, and one Jim Osord. An early gig saw them perform at Sheerwater Old People’s Club before taking up a regular Sunday afternoon slot at Woking’s Odeon cinema. Osord left and Smith and Stonard joined. Their track “Glory Road” got then some local media attention. Skiffle gave way to rock n’ roll and the band reinvented themselves as The Cadillacs.
Phillips went on to work in support bands for Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. There was also a session group that included Paul “Gary Glitter” Raven. He was part of The Symbols and, in ’72, Philips was in Boot Hill Preservation Society on Les Reed‘s Chapter One label.
Colt, whose legal name was Raymond Ducker, sadly passed away September 2018, around two years after Smith, on 26 June 2016, in Australia.
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