Pete Dello
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Pete Dello (born Peter Blumson) is a 1960s and 1970s singer/songwriter turned businessman (he now owns several motor car showrooms across the United Kingdom).
He started his career as a musician in the skiffle era of the 1950s and was a founding member of the rock 'n' roll band Grant Tracy And The Sunsets, after which he joined The Steve Darbyshire Band, before switching to his own Yum Yum Band in the mid 1960s. This led onto him forming Honeybus, with whom he scored the hit single "I Can't Let Maggie Go" in 1968.
Quickly leaving the outfit rather than tour and promote the single, he next cut a solo album Into Your Ears in 1971, and also worked with John Killigrew. Ultimately he quit the music business, for other interests during the 1970s, which led to him making a success in the motor trade.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Singles
Sunsets
- 1961 "Cry Of The Wild Goose"
Grant Tracy & The Sunsets
- 1961 "Say When"
- 1961 "Pretend"
- 1962 "The Great Matchmaker"
- 1962 "Taming Tigers"
- 1963 "Everybody Shake"
Honeybus
- 1967 "Delighted To See You"
- 1967 "Do I Still Figure In Your Life?"
- 1968 "I Can't Let Maggie Go"
- 1973 "For You"
Lace
- 1968 "People People"
- 1969 "I'm A Gambler"
Magic Valley
- 1969 "Taking The Heart Out Of Love"
Leah
- 1973 "Arise, Sir Henry"
[edit] Albums
- 1964 Teenbeat (Grant Tracy And The Sunsets)
- 1971 John Killigrew (John Killigrew with Pete Dello)
- 1971 Into Your Ears (Pete Dello And Friends)
- 1973 Recital (Honeybus) - comeback album
- 1989 Honeybus At Their Best (Honeybus)
- 1993 Old Masters, Hidden Treasures (Honeybus)
- 1997 At Their Best (Honeybus)
- 1999 The Honeybus Story (Honeybus)
- 2002 She Flies Like A Bird : The Anthology (features unreleased songs such as "Big Ship") (Honeybus)
