Very little is known about this mid-1960s British band who recorded a lone 45 for Pye Records – Peter Chester and Roger Kipling’s “Money Will Not Mean a Thing” c/w group composition “Girl Downtown”.
This article in Record Retailer from 12 August 1965, page 7 (see above), notes that the band backed singer Billie Davis and comprised the following musicians:
David Cripps – lead vocals
Ian Green – organ
Peter Bryant – bass
George Hall – flute/sax
Ken McClomb – tenor sax
Eddie Page – drums
Some sources list this outfit as a Reading, Berkshire band. Record Retailer reports that Platform Six were offered work at the Star Club in Hamburg.
It is quite possible that Ian Green is the same musician who subsequently led his own band, Ian Green’s Revelation and married former Orlons singer Rosetta Hightower.
Garage Hangover would welcome any further information below on this obscure group, particularly what its members did afterwards.
David Else got in touch with some more information about this band.
It does look like they were a Reading group and were originally called The Jellies. Green, McColm and original sax player Pete Danvy were in the REME army band. After Hall replaced Danvy and they changed name they did some demos at IBC before the single, which was produced by John Schroeder, although Glyn Johns had done an earlier version.
Around October/November 1965, Hall and McColm joined The Amboy Dukes. It is indeed the same Ian Green who later married Rosetta Hightower.