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Conference marvin::uk_music

Title:The UK Music Conference
Notice:Welcome (back) to UK_MUSIC on node MARVIN.
Moderator:RDGENG::CROOK
Created:Mon Mar 28 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1381
Total number of notes:39269

863.0. "Vanity Fare Info Wanted" by TKTVFS::FUJII () Tue Jul 09 1991 13:19



      Is there anyone who knows about 70's pop group called "Vanity
      Fare" ?  They are known by the one great hit song named "Hitchin'
      a ride".  Any informations will be acceptable.  I.E., chart action,
      biography, Discography, or any info. will be required.

      T. Fujii
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863.1Good Trivial Pursuit stuff this!CHEFS::BRIGGSRThey use computers don't they?Tue Jul 09 1991 16:2918
    
    Ah Ah! Now there's a name from the past.
    
    Actually they had at least 3 hits here in the UK. Their first was a
    thing called 'I Remember Summer Morning' or something similar. This was
    followed by 'Early in the Morning' and then 'Hitchin a Ride'. Someone
    also had a hit at about the same time with an upbeat version of the
    standard 'La Mer' but called 'Beyond the Sea'. This could also have
    been Vanity Fare. All this took place about 1968/1969.
    
    Someone had a hit a year or so ago with Hitchin a Ride. Who was that?
    Bananarama?
    
    Well, thats exhausted my knowledge of Vanity Fare. Did they or their
    members go on to any greater things?
    
    Richard
    Reading, UK 
863.2KERNEL::PARRYTrevor ParryTue Jul 09 1991 19:343
    Is this really Vanity Fare or Vanity Fayre.  The latter being a band
    doing the south coast holiday camps and the like, 60's type music, and
    should be playing at the Basingstoke Carnival this year.
863.3CHEFS::BRIGGSRThey use computers don't they?Wed Jul 10 1991 21:017
    Could be, Could be...
    
    Depends how old they look I suppose. They have to be in their early-mid
    forties now. It would be interesting to know if they are the one and
    the same.
    
    Richard
863.4CHEFS::BRIGGSRThey use computers don't they?Thu Jul 25 1991 12:278
    
    According to something I was reading the other day the name was Vanity
    Fair after the book by Thackery(?). Actually I always thought the book
    was called Vanity Fayre.
    
    Richard