Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 18, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Including by Bruce Moss weekend Magazine currently in Miami the five Bells from left Doug 21 Ann 24 Cliff 25 Jacki and Gordon five Bells and alls Well this swinging Young singing group from Montreal is making Good music and a big name in the states they make an attractive up there on the their Turtle neck sweaters White enough to Delight the most demanding there is no Gunshor sheepdog not even so much As a sideburn among they look just like the kids next door or just like the kids next door used to and when they begin to the Tock Roll beat is All but you escape that reverberating blast of sheer noise that makes Brave men Quail and every tune sound the this is harmonious you can even hear the As Clear As Well As Clear As a five in for the five Bells Are something in Rock Roll there is the lean and intense and looking a Little like Dick Van with just a hint of Humphrey Bogart when he and blonde and five foot with a figure you nor Mally find Only in the pages that fold by Philip Smith weekend Magazine with pigtails and a then there is the 235 pounds of bubbling Good whose majorette sister taught him to do those fancy twirls of the and at the electric so tall that his Knees keep knocking the underside of the and with her Mia Farrow haircut and the appealing look of u Little Paris every Man in the room wants to get up and dance when Ann goes into her they look As wholesome As a bowl of Corn flakes on a sunny said Arthur an automobile company executive from new Jersey enjoying their show at the Plush americana hotel in Miami and wholesome is a Good word for the five whose driving musical style gets to grandfathers As Well As their Rycko Callages a peal took these five Montreal Young sters overnight from dates in places like Brockville and Sarnia to 11 weeks at new York cites famous Copacabana night and then to a whole season in the Carioca lounge of the 720room a resort hotel that also does a multimillion Dollar business handling in new show business columnist Earl Wilson described them As the Copacabana find of the and in Miami i found local columnist Frank Meyer clap Ping his hands in time with one of the five Bells singalong there the most refreshing group to come along in he i review every group that opens in but this is the Only one i Ever come Back to listen i must have been Back about 50 that is about 10 times As often As the English company president who stayed in the americana for five Days and spent every single night in the Carioca lounge listening to the the objects of this affection ate All self taught musicians who not so Long ago were playing in High school groups they have been together As pros for Only a Little More than 18 Cliff the is the at my whole family is he my Grandfather is the organist and Bas baritone in a Montreal choir and Hes Cliff started out As the of a school show when he was 14 and picked up the guitar As he went he was an advertising layout Man before be coming a full time Ann and Jacki to everyone astonishment when they discover Are who is was a Secretary and Jacki a Laboratory technician doing drug tests on Guinea pigs before they met the boys on the Montrea produced to show like the girls were born in spent some time in South Africa As children their father was in the South african air Force and came to Canada eight years my parents were opera singers in South says my grand continued on next Page ;