Discography and Performance History
1950s Choir boy at Honeywell Road School, Wandsworth, in London. The Boys Brigade (percussion). Army Cadet Military Band (percussion and xylophone). For a short time, Nicol also worked as a drum repairer for (UK) musical instrument distributor Boosey & Hawkes
1957/1958 Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys (Colin Hicks is the younger brother of British rock 'n' roll star Tommy Steele).
Singles released:
- Pye 7N15114 Wild Eyes And Tender Lips / Empty Arms Blues
- Pye 7N15125 La Dee Dah / Wasteland
- Pye 7N15163 Little Boy Blue / Jamabalaya
1959/60 Vince Eager and the Quiet Three.
1960: Oscar Rabin Band.
1961: Cyril Stapleton Big Band.
1961-1963: Session work (including jobs with musicians from the orchestras of Ted Heath and Johnny Dankworth).
1964: The Shubdubs.
Singles released:
- Humpty Dumpty / Night Train - Pye 7N15623 2/1964 / US: Mar-Mar Records 313 1964
- Husky / Please Come Back - Pye 7N15666 6/1964 (credited to 'Jimmy Nicol')
- Baby Please Don't Go / Shubdubery - Pye 7N15699 10/1964
1964 April / May: Touring with Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames.
June: The Beatles (as temporary stand in for Ringo Starr)
- 4 June 1964: KB Hallen, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 5 June 1964: Treslong, Hillegom, Holland, (recording TV show, VARA).
- 6 June 1964: Auction Hall (Veilinghal), Blokker, Holland.
- 9 June 1964: Princess Theatre, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
- 12 June 1964: Centennial Hall, Adelaide, Australia.
- 13 June 1964: Centennial Hall, Adelaide, Australia.
1964/1965: Touring as: Jimmy Nicol & The Shubdubs
Solo single release as: The Sound of Jimmy Nicol
- Sweet Clementine / Roaring Blue - Decca F12017
1965 / 1967 : The Spotnicks.
Single release by: The Spotnicks Introducing Jimmie Nicol
- Husky / Drum Diddley - SweDisc SWES 1111
In 1967 Nicol lived in Mexico working with samba & bossa nova groups. He married and had a son, Howard, who in the 1990s was to win an award as sound engineer for his work on a BBC collection of Beatles recordings.
1969 Jimmie Nicol Show:
- Jumpin' Jack Flash / Era Psicodelica Del A Go Go - Discos Orfeon LP-E-12-623 (Mexico)(LP) (Sung in Spanish).
1971 Blue Rain (Mexican rock group recording in Nicol's house).
Information compiled from http://www.pmouse.nl/nicol/
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