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Casey Jones (Brian Casser) - vocals

Tom McGuinness - guitar

Dave McCumisky - bass guitar

Carlo Little - drums

Eric Clapton - guitar





Casser had originally led one of Liverpool's leading groups, Cass & the Cassanova's, from 1959-60. The other members of the group ousted him and became the Big Three. He moved to London in 1961 and became the manager of the Blue Gardenia club in Soho.

In 1963, after the Liverpool groups had exploded in a big way, he decided to put another group together and formed the Engineers. Clapton and McGuinness were only with the band for a few weeks and Casser brought in David Coleman and Roger Cook to replace them.

They only released one single in Britain before moving to Germany where they proved more popular under the name Casey Jones and the Governors, having several chart entries and recording two LP's for the Gold 12 label.

 

Single

1963

One Way Ticket/I'm Gonna Love

Columbia DB 7083

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