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Alan Price - keyboards/vocals (born April 19th 1941, Fatfield)

Clive Burrows - saxophone/flute

Steve Gregory - saxophone/flute

John Walters - trumpet

Rod Slade - bass guitar

Ray Mills - drums






Price, who had left The Animals in 1965 due to his fear of flying, put the band together during the following year. The Set were a horn-laden outfit who had a number of hits between '66 and '68. Their first success being a reworking of Screaming Jay Hawkins' "I Put A Spell On You".

Subsequent records were in a style closer to the old British music halls than the blues.

Following the demise of the Set, Price teamed up with Georgie Fame for a short-lived liason.

Walters later became a BBC producer.

 

Singles

1965

Any Day Now/Never Be Sick On Sunday

Decca F 12217

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Mar '66

I Put A Spell On You/Lechyd-Da

Decca F 12367

UK#9

Jul '66

Hi Lili Hi Lo/Take Me Home

Decca F 12442

UK#11

Nov '66

Willow Weep For Me/Yours Until Tomorrow

Decca F 12518

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L.P.

Dec '66

The Price To Play - Barefootin'/Just Once In My Life/Goin' Down Slow/Gettin' Mighty Crowded/Honky Tonk/Move On Drifter/Mercy, Mercy/Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever/Ain't That Peculiar?I Can't Turn You Loose/Critic's Choice/Hi Lili Hi Lo

Decca LK 4839

 

Selected Re-issue

1997

Anthology - Any Day Now/I Put A Spell On You/Hi Lili Hi Lo/Willow Weep For Me/Yours Until Tomorrow/Barefootin'/Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever/Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear/The House That Jack Built/Shame/To Ramona/Biggest Night Of Her Life/Don't Stop The Carnival/When I Was A Cowboy/Love Story/My Old Kentucky Home/Trimdon Grange Explosion/Sunshine And Rain/O Lucky Man/Pastoral/Poor People/Arrival/Jarrow Song/In Times Like These/Mama Divine/Papers/Little Inch/Kiss The Night/I'm Coming Back/Please/Don't Make Me Suffer/Just For You/I'm A Gambler/Baby Of Mine/Mr. Sunbeam/House Of The Rising Sun

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