Crossbeats Music

CB 0 - Early Get-together Recordings (secular)

The coloured backround to the table below indicates the date of the line-up of the group for the particular recording.

1963

1966

1968

1975

The songs on this CD were recorded on a home tape recorder (Grundig TK20) probably in and around 1962, some time after St Leonard's youth holiday to Scotland (summer 1962). This is the earliest recording of the crossBeaTs. It was around the time when we were experimenting with 'current' secular songs and playing what Christian songs were around - for pleasure (our own, nobody else's!). Tracks 6-9 of this CD were recorded at St Leonard's church hall, when we were asked to "do a turn" at the Harvest Festival Social (1962).

Clearly none of these songs were written by the group.

Left click a DOWNLOAD button, when it appears, to play the file on your chosen player. If you want to save the file, right-click the button, and choose "Save Target As ...." or "Save Link As....", depending on your browser. Two versions of each song are offered here: the low quality (highly compressed file) will download more quickly, whilst the higher quality file will be larger and take longer to download.

CB 0			Eddie Boyes (rhythm), Eric Knowles (drums), John Boyes (lead - with bass-type parts on occasions), Tony Mathias (vocals).
Track #	Song Title	MP3 Small File or Large File	Comment
1	FBI	or	Home recording on Grundig TK20
2	Guitar tango	or	Home recording on Grundig TK20
3	The young ones	or	Home recording on Grundig TK20
4	Picture of you	or	Home recording on Grundig TK20
5	PS I love you	or	Home recording on Grundig TK20
6	Audience noise - introduction	or	This introduction is almost unintelligible, but included for completeness. It's the introduction to the songs done at the Harvest Social at St Leonard's 1962 (on a TK20 in the hall). See photo of 3 of the 4 people involved in this (playing an instrumental song).
7	Things	or	Harvest at St Leonard's 1962 (on TK20)
8	Apache	or	Harvest at St Leonard's 1962 (on TK20)
9	Picture of you	or	Harvest at St Leonard's 1962 (on TK20)
10	PS I love you	or	Harvest at St Leonard's 1962 (on TK20)
11	What a friend we have in Jesus	or	Home recording - possibly the first Christian song we did (from Western Style Songs) on Grundig TK20
12	Goldmine in the sky	or	Home recording (pseudo-Christian song) - we were trying to find suitable things. Starts part-way through - words come later. (on TK20)
13	Red sails in the sunset	or	Home recording on Grundig TK20

If you want any further information, please get in touch.