Let's Go With The Pleasers and Peter Sinclair

Extremely rare nice clean  vinyl with a very average cover showing tape repairs on front of cover and 3 x 3cm missing from centre bottom of front.

Line-Up:     Roger Skinner (Lead Guitar / Vocals)     Brian Layton (Rhythm Guitar / Vocals)     Kevin Walsh (Bass Guitar / Vocals)     Max Thompson (Drums)

Roger Skinner had served his  apprenticeship well, by the time he formed the Pleasers in January 1964.  Roger began his career back in 1957 with a skiffle group he formed, called the Kool Kats. With him in that group were Jimmy Elliot, later of the Premiers and the Dallas Four, Peter  White on tea-chest bass and Lance Whittington on drums.

After the Kool Kats, Roger  formed the Top Hats, who consisted of Graham Gibson, Geoff Land, Neville  Findlay, Ian Goldwater, Neil Harvey and Roger. They used to play at RSA dances  for several months until Goldwater and Harvey left. This was in 1960 and the  remaining members renamed themselves the Versatones. Basing themselves as  a Shadows type band, they secured regular paying gigs on the social  circuits of Auckland City, playing regularly until disbanding at the end of  1963.

The Pleasers was his next  outing, formed with Brian, Kevin and Max. They were inspired by the Beatles and managed to get a residency at the Beatle Inn, taking over from the Merseymen. Building their own group of fans,  they were also giving a guest spot on television's "In The Groove", where they  came to the attention of the producers of the Wellington based TV music show  "Let's Go". They were offered a contract to be the shows resident band until the  end of 1964.

This required a move to Wellington, and  as soon as they got there they were also offered residencies at Teenarama and at  the Petone Youth Club. The Pleasers replaced the Librettos at Teenarama and also as resident band  on "Let's Go", after they had gone to Australia.

A recording contract was also secured  with Red Rooster, a subsidiary of Viking Records. Their first single was "Ain't  Gonna Kiss You"/"Move It". It was a cover of the Searchers song and when  released in 1964, the Pleasers used the TV show to help promote it. The  follow-up single is their best known one, "Yes My Darling"/"For Ever". It also  came out in 1964 and was included on an EP called "The Pleasers" and an album  called "Let's Go with Pete Sinclair and the Pleasers" that was released in early  1965. Their third single was "Lovely Lovely"/"Let's Go" and was actually cut  with host Pete Sinclair.