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These Dublin Lads were celebrating over 60 years in Showbusiness. Yep, we started in short pants ... honest. Recently we released 'Stripped Down Bachelors', a Swing Album ['Swinging Bachelors'], an Irish Album ['Irish Songs - the way we sing 'em'] posed almost naked for a Charity Calendar, and released a track on the Water Rats Compilation Album called ‘The Gathering’. In recent years we have had TWO Gold Albums - been at Number 5 in the Radio One Album chart and number 6 in the 'Value' charts, and Number 2 in The Irish Charts, outselling U2. 

We have just completed our 78th album [Stripped Down Bachelors]. Our 'Sounds of Sunday', on 1st Sunday of every month, on ZOOM, is a sensation. Now, sadly, without my brother Con, I keep our memory alive.

1st Sunday of each month - 2 for 2.30pm UK time - ZOOM ID 736-7801-5504 Password: 2d6tmd.

So you see, we are still making headlines around the World. Brothers Con and Dec Cluskey, founder members of The Bachelors, were the first of the ‘Irish Boy Bands’ to invade Britain's shores in 1962. We took on the might of British Groups and even managed to outsell ‘The Beatles’ in 1964 and 1965. We were in the chart for 77 weeks in 1964. The Beatles were there for 55 weeks.

What have we done recently?

Before Covid, we have been all over the TV with our hit album which was No. 5 in The Album Charts. Starred in our own show at The North Pier Blackpool.... Played New York for a fantastic 'Doo-Wop' weekend. Played three weeks at the Opera House Blackpool. Played for Jim Marshall’s birthday [and attended his tribute night RIP] ….yep, he supplied the famous wall of Marshall Stacks…loud? Yes! Played The Festival Hall in London for a unique choral concert and had the 200 strong Treorchy Male Voice Choir to back us….. played in Spain at La Manga ... the Internationally famous golf Resort. And yet another major choral concert, wrote the music parts for them.

But the sensation has been 'Sounds of Sunday' - right through Covid we had 'The Corona Diaries' every week ... then 'Bachelors in Lockdown' every month ... followed by 'Bachelors in Pandemic' .... and now our monthly 'Sounds of Sunday'

“The past? Who cares, we’ve already been there”

Dec works hard at dreaming up new and inventive ways of giving you the best ..... he says: “all the good things are up-stream”

Can Dec Tell Stories? Yes! We have appeared with almost every Show Biz legend in the world, from Judy Garland through to ‘Ant and Dec’, and Dec Donelly will tell you the story about how he got Christened....he is the only other Dec in the world. Tom Jones, Engelbert, Sammy Davis Jnr., Bob Hope, Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper, Tony Bennett, Cliff, The Beatles, and even The Pope, we’ve shared a stage somewhere in the world at sometime with them all. Des O’Connor, Tom O’Connor - Brian Murphy, Glen Murphy. Cilla’s first big show? Lulu’s first big TV.....where did Freddie Starr get his big break? Bobby Davro? Yes, we knew them all, know them all, and boy, can we tell the stories? In fact we did that when we did a 2 hour show to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Risby WI. From ‘Ready, Steady, Go’ through to ‘Eastenders’, everyone has a tale to tell about ‘Con and Dec’. The Bachelors.

And now Con is no longer with us. Taken from us by Covid in April 2022.

 

 
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