Bay City Rollers: The boy band that turned the world tartan

BBC Scotland News ^ | 13th September 2015 | Steven Brocklehurst

[the scotsman]

'Forty years ago this week, the Bay City Rollers were the biggest pop band in the UK and were about to the hit the United States, as the Scottish teen sensations rolled on towards turning the whole world tartan.'

[Snickering Hound]

Never again...

[usmcobra]

Should this have been posted on saturday night???

[miss marmelstein]

They were going to be bigger than the Beatles...ahem...

[angcat]

God I hated them and I see why now.

[Tijeras_Slim]

What did I ever do to you? ;)

[Blue Jays]

Rare factoid about Bay City Rollers is that the combined bench press of the entire band was 250 pounds.

[tenger]

I saw what you did there.

Saturday Night

[Hot Tabasco]

Rare factoid about Bay City Rollers is that the combined bench press of the entire band was 250 pounds.

Another factoid: They got their name by throwing a dart at a map of the United States and it landed on Bay City Michigan.............

[ecomcon]

Weird how the photo is flopped.

[Dartman]

Speaking of crappy bands, when is the anniversary of Dexy’s Midnight Runners?

[mylife]

Effa bay City rollers I wear the black plaid

[2big2fail]

Another Factoid: The legendary Ramones got the inspiration for “Blitzkrieg Bop” from the Bay City Roller’s “Saturday Night.” They LOVED the chant at the beginning “S..A..TUR.. DAY...NIGHT!” and turned it into the “Hey..Ho...LET’s GO!” The Ramones aspired to be bubblegum pop sensations, but were just too twisted to pull it off. Instead, they invented punk rock.

[SamAdams76]

For about 15 minutes, they probably were bigger than the Beatles. Them and about a dozen other acts that came and went during the 1970s. "Bigger than the Beatles" was tossed around a lot during those years but nobody ever measured up over the long term.

I was a freshman in high school the year they hit it big in America. I remember all the girls going nuts over them. They called it "Rollermania". Four about four months that was all you heard about. The school was half empty the day they rolled into Boston for a concert. Then suddenly, they were gone from the scene and somebody named Shaun Cassidy became the next teen idol.

Nice memory from the 1970s however. I had almost forgotten all about them. Other than "Saturday Night", I have a hard time coming up with another song by them without going to Google.

[abb]

Good Morning Vietnam.

Noble Willingham’s General Taylor to J. T. Walsh’s Sgt Dickerson:

“For crying out loud, man, this isn’t brain surgery.”

“Don’t get crazy over this, Dick. We’re only talking about a damn deejay.”

[mylife]

Ireeeeen LOL

[JaguarXKE]

Thank goodness those pants never caught on! Bell bottoms were bad enough!

[Norm Lenhart]

This is why the 70s should be criminalized...

[miss marmelstein]

I was a young adult at that time. I remember Irish bartenders in NYC singing their praises. I don’t remember a single song on the jukebox!

[mylife]

Yer messing with my head and dissing Joey Ramone LOL