The Rubettes

Unofficial The Rubettes myspace.

This site is managed by a fan and not The Rubettes.

i was shocked to find that there was no Rubettes songs on Myspace so i created an account.

The Rubettes were a British pop band of the 1970s assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, the then head of A&R at Polydor Records, and his co-writer, Tony Waddington after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts. The band emerged at the tail end of the glam rock movement, wearing trademark white suits and cloth caps on stage.



The line-up of the band was Alan Williams (born 22 December 1948); Tony Thorpe (born 20 July 1947); Bill Hurd (born 11 August 1948); Mick Clarke (born 10 August 1946), and John Richardson (born 3 May 1948). The Rubettes first (and biggest hit) was Sugar Baby Love (released in 1974) which was a UK no. 1 and going on to sell around three million copies worldwide. The distinctive falsetto lead vocal to Sugar Baby Love was however performed by Paul Da Vinci (real name: Paul Prewer) who left the group after a few weeks to be replaced by Williams. The song is often mistakenly assumed to be by Showaddywaddy by casual music fans and the younger generation.



The Rubettes went on to have a number of other hits during the mid-seventies such as Juke Box Jive and I Can Do It, mostly written by the Bickerton-Waddington song-writing team. Their final hit was the 'country rock' styled ballad - "Baby I Know" - which reached no. 10 in the UK in 1977.



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