Big Jim Sullivan and a band called Marshall Hammond

[Greeny]

Great videos. I have to admit that I didn't know who Big Jim Sullivan was. So I looked him up on Wikipedia and I'm amazed at all the great records he's played on. To name a few:

• Dave Berry's "The Crying Game" (with Jimmy Page on rhythm guitar because they needed someone who could read music for the lead guitar).
• Gerry & The Pacemakers - "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
• Donovan's "Catch the Wind" and "Colours"
• The Small Faces - "Itchycoo Park"
• Frank Ifield - "I Remember You"
• Cilla Black - "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World"
• Peter & Gordon - "A World Without Love"
• Georgie Fame - "Yeh Yeh"
• Tom Jones - "It's Not Unusual" and "Green Green Grass of Home
• The Walker Brothers - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"
• Dusty Springfield - "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"
• The Tremeloes - "Silence Is Golden"
• Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - "The Legend of Xanadu"
• Peter Sarstedt - "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)"
• Thunderclap Newman - "Something in the Air"
• Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg - "Je t'aime... moi non plus"
• New Seekers - "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"
• Benny Hill - "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)" 

He also played on Frank Zappa's "200 Motels" album. And he was the resident guitarist at "Top of the Pops" and "Ready Steady Go!".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Jim_Sullivan

http://www.bigjimsullivan.com/

Thanks for bringing this incredible guitarist to our attention.

That's an unbelievable list! Thanks, 64... I'm even more blown away now!

I need to ask my uncle what his connection is with Big Jim, as he obviously knows him from way back.

My uncle is the only person in my family who's musical. It was watching him play and sing 'Back in the USSR' with his band at our village's Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977 that made me think: 'that's what I want to be doing someday...'. I've never told him about his influence on me. Perhaps I should.

[64Guitars]

Sorry to hear that Big Jim Sullivan died yesterday. He was 71.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19820424

[AndyR]

Oh that's a bit sad. I was reading the thread thinking "yeah , saw him once in a blues club..."

And then the reason the thread's bumped...

[bruno]

Wow - I'd never heard of him, but F*&^ me, what a guitar sound!
B.

[cuthbert]

Bummer...RIP, Big Jim.

Man, take a look at the link to his website on that page - this guy had a solid resume of work, starting all the way back with Eddie Cochran & Gene Vincent, right through the Seventies. He also played a mean sitar in Swinging London back in the day.