Here’s Michael Winner’s short film ‘The Square’ shot in King’s Cross, London, in 1957 (it went unreleased at the time).
= Argyle Square (says one commentator)
The skiffle band are none other than Rory McEwan singing ‘it takes a worried man’ and ‘crawdad hole’ while the local inhabitants jive. The members of the group – credited in the film as the Rory McEwen Skiffle Band – were Rory McEwen (guitar), Jimmy MacGregor (guitar), Shirley Bland (washboard), and Russell Quaye or Red Sullivan (tea-chest bass) were usually performing at the time as the City Ramblers. Geraldine Lynton, the dancer with a two-tone skirt who dances with the old gentleman would eventually become Michael Winner’s wife. Note that in a YouTube rehash the swinging scene is overdubbed by Danny and the Juniors’ ‘at the hop’ (running from 0:05 up to 0:49, and 1:00 to 1:19).
POSTED November 2023.
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