In ’68, Ash resident James Scott “Jock” Cree formed the Flams Ltd record label to release his tuitional LP “Learn to Play Drums” [FR 1062].

As a boy in Glasgow, he had learned drums with the Boys’ Brigade. From ’41-’42, he toured in variety theatres with The Harmonists, the band of Gladys Hay, daughter of comedian Will Hay. With the RAF during WWII, he drummed with dance bands and light orchestras and broadcast for the British Forces in Germany. He was known to many as the manager of Potter’s Music Shop, Aldershot during the ’60’s Beat Boom. 

Cree on drums with The Mickey Kennedy Band. c’60s. Source: Steve McKeown via Farnborough (Hants) Nostalgia

From 1947 to about 1980, he was a dance band drummer mainly in Surrey and Hampshire, with many of Bob Potter’s bands and, latterly, with The Keynotes in residency at Frensham Ponds Hotel and elsewhere. Sometime in the early 60’s, Cree, was on drums with Farnborough based The Mickey Kennedy Band. 

In ’98, he recorded with his son, Wounded John Scott Cree, on the younger’s LP, “A Superfluous Man“, released on Flams Records [FCD 002]. 

Cree died in Cove in 2006.

Gallery:

The flyer for mail shots promting ‘Learn to Play Drums’ by Jock Cree. Picture courtesy of John Scott Cree.
Jock Cree photographed for the “Learn to Play Drums” LP in 1968. Picture courtesy of John Scott Cree.
Clipping from Aldershot News 1974. Picture courtesy of John Scott Cree.