Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group & Nancy Whiskey and Shirley Douglas. More from this artist. Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group.

Shirley Douglas leads with The Chas McDevitt Group as they perform "Real Love".

Whiskey's successor Shirley Douglas eventually married McDevitt and continued to record with him long after the Skiffle Group's inevitable demise. For the first time on one album here are all of the McDevitt Group's Oriole label recordings featuring both aforementioned songstresses

Previously unreleased 1950s recordings featuring Nancy Whiskey & Shirley Douglas (CD) (CD). Interpret: Chas Mcdevitt & Skiffle Group (CD). Year of publication 1993. Born To Be With You. 15. I Want A Little Girl. 16. Across The Bridge. Chas Mcdevitt & Skiffle Group: Chas McDevitt And Friends Art-Nr.

Kathleen Barbara Marie Douglas (Shirley Douglas), singer and guitarist: born Athlone, Ireland 1939; married 1959 Chas McDevitt (divorced 1975; one daughter); died Benissa, Spain 15 January 2013. British pop fans were surprised in 1957 when Nancy Whiskey left the The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group at the height of its fame. From 1959, McDevitt and Douglas were playing electric instruments and during that year, she published The Shirley Douglas Easy Guide to Rhythm and Blues for Bass Guitar. Both John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) and John Entwistle (The Who) have acknowledged their debt to this manual. McDevitt played football with the Showbiz XI, which included Sean Connery and Billy Wright, and in April 1959 they arranged a fixture for a Sunday morning so that all the players could attend McDevitt and Douglas's wedding at St Patrick's Church in Soho.

Charles James McDevitt, (born 4 December 1934) is a British musician, one of the leading lights of the skiffle genre which was highly influential and popular in the United Kingdom in the mid-to-late 1950s. McDevitt was born in Eaglesham, Glasgow, Scotland. His family moved to Camberley, Surrey, when he was a child. As a teenager he taught himself the banjo, and began corresponding with blues artists including Josh White. He also joined a local Dixieland jazz group

Her replacement was Shirley Douglas, a charming soprano with a particular talent for romantic ballads. The poster read: "Chas McDevitt 100 per cent, Shirley Douglas 50 per cent and the Freight Train Boys 25 per cent". Kathleen Barbara Marie Douglas (Shirley Douglas), singer and guitarist: born Athlone, Ireland 1939; married 1959 Chas McDevitt (divorced 1975; one daughter); died Benissa, Spain 15 January 2013. Artists Music Violin Violinists.

Chas McDevitt in 2017. After Whiskey left in 1957, McDevitt had less commercial success, and his group disbanded around 1959, he then formed a duo with his wife Shirley Douglas, until their professional and personal relationship ended in the 1970s. Nancy Whiskey died in February 2003. More recently McDevitt appeared on the BBC Television show, Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Teenage Letter - Chas McDevitt, Richard. The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group.