THE JOY STRINGS

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JOY WEBB 

 PETER DALZIEL 

 BILL DAVIDSON 

 

English, religious pop-group, from the Salvation Army. Captain Joy Webb (now retired major) started the group  together with cadets of the William Booth Memorial College for Salvation Army Officers. In the beginning the group consisted of 8 persons, Joy Webb, Peter Dalziel and Bill Davidson playing guitars and Wycliffe Noble on drums, together with three more girls and a boy. After some time the group decreased to five persons, the fifth beeing Sylvia Gair, later married to Dalziel, both now lt.-colonels. Webb changed to keyboard and Dalziel to bass guitar. All together they released 6 singles, 5 (6?) EP’s and 2 LP’s. They were recording on Regal Zonophone, a label later associated with Move, Procol Harum, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Joe Cocker. 

 

Original band:

The in-between group:

The nucleus:

Thelma Adams, Brenda Alexander, Lillian Booth, Handel Everett, Bill Davidson, Peter Dalziel, Wycliffe Noble, Joy Webb

Ruth Swainsbury, Pauline Jane, Sylvia Gair, Bill Davidson, Peter Dalziel, Wycliffe Noble, Joy Webb

Sylvia Gair, Bill Davidson, Peter Dalziel, Wycliffe Noble, Joy Webb

Members for a short time or just sitting in: Nigel Robson, Lars Dunberg, Roger Woodrow

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