I Wouldn’t Trade You For The World – The Bachelors (1964)

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Additional information about this, The Bachelors vinyl art.

The Bachelors – The Artist/s

The Bachelors were a popular music group from Dublin, Ireland, but based primarily in the United Kingdom. They had several international hits during the 1960s, including eight top-ten singles in the UK between 1963 and 1966. The Bachelors split in 1984. The founding members of the group were Conleth (Con) Cluskey (1935 – 2022), his younger brother Declan (Dec) Cluskey (born 1941) and their friend John Stokes (Sean James Stokes) (born 1936). They formed their first band together in 1957: “The Harmonichords” (also seen as “The Harmony Chords”), a classically styled instrumental harmonica-act. During the 1960s, they had many successful songs in music charts in Europe, Australia, South Africa, South America, USA and USSR. Among the most successful were: 1963 – “Charmaine”, Diane (a UK no. 1 hit); becoming the first Irish act to have a UK number one, 1964 – “I Believe”, “Ramona”, “I Wouldn’t Trade You for the World” (UK no. 2); 1965 – “Marie” (written by Irving Berlin), “In the Chapel in the Moonlight”. In 1965 they also had the ‘most played juke box track’ with “The Stars Will Remember”, from the film “It’s all over town”. Their last big hit in the UK was a cover of the Paul Simon song “The Sound of Silence”, which reached no. 3 in April 1966. As a vocal trio, with Cluskey on lead vocals, they had eight top ten singles in the UK between 1963 and 1966 and eight in Ireland from 1962 to 196

I Would’t Trade You or The World – The Song

‘I Wouldn’t Trade You or The World’ is a song by Irish pop group The Bachelors, released as a single in August 1964. It reached number-one in Ireland, became a top-ten hit in the UK. It was one of the Bachelors first singles not to have been a cover. It was written by Americans Bill Taylor, Major Bill Smith and Curtis Kirk, and was recorded by the group in 1963, though was shelved until the following year. It was released in August 1964 with the B-side “Beneath the Willow Tree”, written by Tommy Scott and Bill Martin.

The World Trade Centre – The Shape

This record has been cut into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York. The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built primarily between 1966 and 1975, it was dedicated on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time of their completion, the 110-story-tall Twin Towers, including the original 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) at 1,368 feet (417 m), and 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower) at 1,362 feet (415.1 m), were the tallest buildings in the world; they were also the tallest twin skyscrapers in the world until 1996, when the Petronas Towers opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Other buildings in the complex included the Marriott World Trade Center (3 WTC), 4 WTC, 5 WTC, 6 WTC, and 7 WTC. The complex contained 13,400,000 square feet (1,240,000 m2) of office space and, prior to its completion, was projected to accommodate an estimated 130,000 people.

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