Following a number of successful resident engagements at such famous Liverpool clubs as the Mardi Gras and The Cavern, the Jeans were offered resident seasons at the Star Club in Hamburg alongside such Liverpool groups as The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Searchers, and Merseybeats.
In 1963, the Swinging Blue Jeans blasted their way into the charts with 'Hippy Hippy Shake', which resulted them appearing on the very first show of the long running BBC Television series 'Top Of The Pops'. Amongst other new chart climbers on that show was a band calling themselves 'The Rolling Stones'.!
Due to the incredible international success of 'Hippy Hippy Shake' the Jeans were featured on every major pop TV show in Great Britain, Scandinavia and Europe, they also featured in no less than 3 feature films.
Hit singles were the norm, 'Good Golly Miss Molly', 'You're No Good', 'Don't Make Me Over' and 'It's Too Late Now' were all chart successes. Mixed in with the hit singles were two hit albums, 'Blue Jeans A Swinging' and 'Swinging Blue Jeans At The Cascade'.
The Swinging Blue Jeans are still one of the most popular of the authentic 60's band their annual tour commitments take in such wide flung countries as Germany, Australia, Sweden, Spain, Norway, New Zealand, Denmark, UAE, Holland, Ireland, Poland, Canada, the USA, and of course Great Britain.
1994 was a particularly exiting year for the Blue Jeans. A major sell-out tour with Gerry and the Pacemakers and Helen Shapiro during the spring months was followed by a highly successful season at Windsor Golf and Country Club in Kenya: and a super tour with the Searchers, Billy J. Kramer and The Merseybeats in the autumn rounded off a busy year to perfection.
And now we have another Solid Silver 60s Tour to look forward to in 2008.
The current line-up of the Swinging Blue Jeans features: Ray
Ennis (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Alan Lovell (lead guitar and vocals),
Phil Thompson (drums and percussion) and a guest bass player, usually Pete
Oakman pictured here.
All members of the Swinging Blue Jeans were raised on the excitement of rock 'n' roll and the Swinging Sixties, and it's that type of background that remains in their live stage act .... when you see and hear them you will feel that excitement and understand what the early sixties were all about, it's an experience that will reach out and touch you!