Delilah: The Best Of

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When the session work decreased, Zal returned to day-to-day jobs including as a computer consultant and reading electric meters. In 2006, he appeared in his début acting role as Wilson in the western film A Shot in the West, for which he wrote the theme music. The first two weeks it was at #2, the #1 record for both those weeks was "Lady Madonna" by the Beatles; and for its third week at #2, "Congratulations" by Cliff Richard was in the top spot...

SAHB produced a succession of highly regarded albums and tours throughout the 1970s. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band had top 40 hits in Britain with the single " Delilah", a cover version of the Tom Jones hit, which reached number seven in 1975, and also with "The Boston Tea Party" in June 1976. The band never achieved acclaim in the United States the way it did in Great Britain, but it had a cult following in certain US cities, especially Cleveland, where the group first played at the Agora Ballroom in December 1974. Thanks to airplay from WMMS, songs like "Next" and "The Faith Healer" became very popular. Cleveland remained a city where the Sensational Alex Harvey Band had a devoted following. [7] However, they were unable to replicate that popularity in most other US cities. [8] AllMusic. "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Biography". AllMusic. {{ cite web}}: |author= has generic name ( help)A hit single?! To SAHB that must have seemed a million miles away. But in the summer of 1975 it happened. “ Delilah was a complete accident that did us as much harm as it did good,” Ted reflects. “I met someone a while ago who told me they didn’t like us. I asked why, and they said: ‘I don’t like comedy acts’. That was someone who never saw the band live, just saw us do Delilah and thought we didn’t take ourselves seriously. It was a double-edged sword alright.” Jim Barnes and Stephen Scanes, The Book: Top 40 Research – 5th Edition, Barscan, Berowra, 2000, p. 318

Harvey was instrumental in the formation of the band Stone the Crows by introducing his younger brother Leslie "Les" Harvey to singer Maggie Bell. Also in Stone the Crows was bassist James Dewar, later of Robin Trower fame. [6] Les Harvey was fatally electrocuted in a freak accident while performing with the band in 1972.

The production of the album Framed took place in 1972. The album was produced by the band’s mentor and frontman, Alex Harvey, in collaboration with Phil Wainman, who was known for his work with The Sweet and Bay City Rollers.

During the success of SAHB, Cleminson had a distinctive stage presence with SAHB owing to his white-face mime makeup. He started wearing the mime makeup when the band started playing larger venues, so they could see what he was doing on stage easier. Cleminson has said "The mime face came about when I went to Paris to see Marcel Marceau performing and it gave me an idea to have an alter ego and mess around with pulling faces when I played so it gave the audience something to watch and with bigger gigs – more people could see what I was up to". [1] The Zal Band [ edit ] Neil Walsh from London Nw2cannot believe that a song about a man knifing his girlfriend to death has become such a hit. The melody had already been put down in entirety by Les Reed, who had also had the idea for the theme of the song, and a chorus that had two lines of 'Iy Yi Yi, Delilah.' Les had suggested that the song be based on the story of a modern Samson and Delilah, and Barry and I set to work. Under the punk character and behind the creativity of what might be called a prog-punk album, Harvey’s colleagues saw someone who’d “lost the plot,” was “self-destructive” and “just angry and lost”. Kev from Rogers, ArThis was my favorite Tom Jones song. For a while he had his own TV show in the US called "This Is Tom Jones" around 1969 or so.Chris adds: “Instead of taking it easier he was taking pills to kill the pain. He was exercising less and trying to take more drink and drugs to cheer himself up, because the pills were getting him down.” BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (1991) (recorded for the BBC at The Paris Theatre 1972 and The Hippodrome 1973) Chris says: “Alex insisted that it went on the album so I don’t know what happened to it. Someone suggested that Bill’s wife might have pulled the plug on it, but I don’t see that at all. ‘ My best friend died in a plane crash’– that’s the reference to Bill. How could anyone object to it?” Since the demise of the band in October 2019, Zal and Willie worked together on a new project 'Orphans Of The Ash' and have released a studio album in November 2022 titled Ellipsis. Plans are currently in place for Orphans Of The Ash to begin working on their second album which is yet to be titled. The album 'Ellipsis' by Orphans of the Ash, Zal's collaboration with Billy McGonagle from /sin'dogs/, was released on 29 November 2022. [3] ROOL [ edit ] Earlier, while the Sensational Alex Harvey Band was still active, Bob Seger included "Gang Bang" in his set, as documented on his July 8, 1974 show at Ebbets Field in Denver. Seger jokingly introduces it as a love song "ballad."