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The Kursaal Flyers

Index The Kursaal Flyers

The Kursaal Flyers were a British pop band, formed in Southend-on-Sea in 1973. [1]

54 relations: Airplay, Album, AllMusic, Band (rock and pop), Banjo, Bass guitar, BBC, BBC Television, Canvey Island, Columbia Records, Corringham, Essex, Country rock, Cover version, Dr. Feelgood (band), Drum kit, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Essex, Fairport's Cropredy Convention appearances, Great Wakering, Jonathan King, Kursaal (amusement park), Lead guitar, List of Peel sessions, List of performers on Top of the Pops, London, Management, Mike Batt, Paul Conroy, Pedal steel guitar, Phil Spector, Phonograph record, Pop music, RealPlayer, Record label, Record producer, Rochford, Shoeburyness, Singing, Single (music), Solo (music), Song, Songwriter, Sound recording and reproduction, Southend-on-Sea, Stratford, London, Talent agent, The Records, Top of the Pops, UK Records, UK Singles Chart, ..., United Kingdom, Website, Wide boy, Will Birch. Expand index (4 more) »

Airplay

In radio broadcasting, airplay is how frequently a song is being played on radio stations.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Band (rock and pop)

A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble which performs rock music, pop music or a related genre.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Canvey Island

Canvey Island is a civil parish and reclaimed island in the Thames estuary in Essex, England.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Corringham, Essex

Corringham is a small English town within the unitary authority of Thurrock and one of the traditional (Church of England) parishes.

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Country rock

Country rock is a subgenre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock and country.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Dr. Feelgood (band)

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Eddie and the Hot Rods

Eddie and the Hot Rods are a pub rock band from Essex founded in 1975.

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Fairport's Cropredy Convention appearances

This is a list of the artists who have played at the various Fairport Convention Fairport's Cropredy Convention over the years.

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Great Wakering

Great Wakering is a village in Essex, England.

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Jonathan King

Jonathan King (born Kenneth George King, 6 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer, music entrepreneur, and former television and radio presenter.

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Kursaal (amusement park)

The Kursaal is a Grade II listed building in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, which opened in 1901 as part of one of the world's first purpose-built amusement parks.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

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List of Peel sessions

This is a list of artists (bands and individual musicians) who recorded at least one session for John Peel and his show on BBC Radio 1 from 1967 to his death in 2004.

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List of performers on Top of the Pops

This list of performers on Top of the Pops includes popular music recording artists and musical ensembles who have performed on Top of the Pops, a weekly BBC One television programme that featured artists from the UK singles chart.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Management

Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body.

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Mike Batt

Michael Philip Batt LVO (born 6 February 1949) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, director, conductor and former Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry.

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Paul Conroy

Paul Conroy is an English music executive with a long and varied career of managing labels.

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Pedal steel guitar

The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and levers added to enable playing more varied and complex music which had not been possible with antecedent steel guitar designs.

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Phil Spector

Phillip Harvey Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector, December 26, 1939) is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter who developed the Wall of Sound, a music production formula he described as a "Wagnerian" approach to rock and roll.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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RealPlayer

RealPlayer, formerly RealAudio Player, RealOne Player and RealPlayer G2, is a cross-platform media player app, developed by RealNetworks.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Rochford

Rochford is a town in the Rochford district of Essex in the East of England.

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Shoeburyness

Shoeburyness (also called Shoebury) is a town in southeast Essex, England, at the mouth of the Thames Estuary.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Solo (music)

In music, a solo (from the solo, meaning alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble.

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Song

A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Southend-on-Sea

Southend-on-Sea, commonly referred to as simply Southend, is a town and wider unitary authority area with borough status in southeastern Essex, England.

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Stratford, London

Stratford is a town and parish in London, in the London Borough of Newham.

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Talent agent

A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, authors, film directors, musicians, models, professional athletes, writers, screenwriters, broadcast journalists, and other professionals in various entertainment or broadcast businesses.

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The Records

The Records were an English power pop band formed in 1978.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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UK Records

UK Records was a music label launched in 1972 by Jonathan King to distribute his own releases and those by some other artists.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Website

A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server.

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Wide boy

Wide boy is a British term for a man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing.

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Will Birch

Will Birch (born 12 September 1948) is an English music journalist, songwriter, record producer and drummer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kursaal_Flyers

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