He was a skiffler and became a Spinner


The rise of the Liverpool Spinners to huge success was a great boost to the return British Folk music. Redd Sullivan had prompted their conversion from singing all those American songs to singing the songs of their own heritage. But in that era, the delineation between Jazz, Folk, Skiffle and Beat was not as pronounced as it later seemed to be.

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