She truly was a trail blazer wasn`t she !, when you stop and think about it, we didn`t really see the likes of Anne Margot Coxall again until ( to my knowledge at least ) Don Henley or Phil Collins when it came to singing and drumming, and on top of that of course, she was the first female drummer, (again, that i know of ).
Have been one of my very favorite groups since I first heard Have I The Right as a kid . Mid-60's was the tail end of the greatest "classical" pop ever made.....
This was a great song and Honey Lantree being a pioneer as a drummer, sadly this song would be their only top 10. Music is an ugly business because majority of the hit makers only hit it big one or two times.
Incidentally, the copyright holder of the Fortunes' hit performance of the "Caroline" song kindly agreed (after Radio Caroline's "MOA 50" event of Aug 2017 in Clacton) that their performance of that song could be used freely in association with Radio Caroline related events etc. They said they were truly thankful for Radio Caroline having adopted their song back then, itself not a major hit, as it had served not only as a station anthem/jingle but also as a recurring subliminal advert for themselves! Apparently, the copyrights for that record had most recently (as of Aug 2017) reverted from _EMI Harmonies_ back to the the band. Just shows, "it never hurts to ask" - once you've done the "leg" (or web & phone) work to _find_ the right person to ask!
It was so great, in my young teenage years, to hear him back on RNI, a couple of years or so after the original U.K. "pirate" stations were forcibly closed down.
This band was so far ahead of their time, people just weren't ready for them. This song should have been a no.1 hit. Years later, the Animals were at this level. They were just too sophisticated for the public in their time .
I was on holiday on the Isle of Man with my parents and siblings at Easter 1964 and we saw Radio Caroline North anchor off Ramsey. When we got back home to Liverpool the radio was tuned to Caroline North as it was the go to station. I’m glad that I lived through those momentous days as we would never see the likes again!. The 60’s were without doubt a special time to be alive!
I was a child in the 1960s, living in Germany and had my first radio. The state radio programm was very boring. Only soft or classic music. No Rock`n Roll. At AM it was better, but only in the night. But I had no headphones.
I listened to their last broadcast in 1980 and it was very sad to hear its last moments as she went down. I have happy memories listening to Caroline when we lived in Liverpool. I was on holiday on the Isle of Man at Easter 1964 with my parents and siblings and we watched as Caroline North anchored off Ramsey. Seems a lifetime ago now!
