John E Sharpe And The Squires

Discography:

Albums

• Maybelline (1966) CBS, ALD 6962
  
  
  
  Tracks: Monkey Shine/ What's Your Name/ Maybelline/ LSD/ I'm A Man/ I Am A Rock/Walking The Dog/ She's Fine, She's Mine/ Bo-Diddley/ I Gave My Wife A Diamond/ Back Door Man/ Folsom Prison Blues

  Seven Singles

  
  
  
• Stop Your Sobbing/ High Heel Sneakers, CBS SSC 545
  
• I'll Explain/ Yours For The Picking, CBS SSC 587
  
• I Am A Rock/ Like A Rolling Stone, CBS SSC 650, 1966
  
• Monkey Shine/ Take It Easy, CBS SSC 698, 1966
  
  

  Compilation Album

• Spectacular Star Sensations, CBS KLD 4509
  
  
  
  Track: I Am A Rock
  
  

  Compact Disc

• The Best Of South African Pop Volume 2,
  CDGMPD 40486, 1994
  
  
  
  Track: I Am A Rock
  
  

• John E Sharpe: lead guitar, vocals
• Chris Demetriou: vocals, keyboards
• Les Goode: bass guitar left in 1965
• Alan Shane: vocals, bass guitar joined in 1965
• Robbie Heaney: drums
• Various Other Musicians

Session Work

• Gene Rockwell, Heart And Soul, Gallotone GALP 1404
  
  Backing Vocals: Sylvia Faktor/ Iginia Slabaina/ Maria Dolores Paravane/ John E Sharpe/ Mel Miller
  
  
  
  
• Mel And Mel, 500 Miles/ Sorrow And Pain, CBS SSC 352, March 1965
  
  Instrumental backing provided by John E Sharpe And The Squires
  
  
• Quentin E Klopjaeger With The Gonks, Lazy Life/ The Long Way Home, TRS-E-9093, 1968
  
  The Gonks: John E Sharpe/ John Elliot (sax)/ Albert Rossi (drums)/ Other
  
  
  
  
• Quentin E Klopjaeger, Sad Simon Lives Again, Troubadour TRL-E1319, 1968
  
  The Gonks provided instrumental backing on various tracks
  
  
  
  

Comments:

Thanks to Rupert Mellor for black and white photograph of John E Sharpe.

Tertius Louw, June 2001.