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The Bluegenes as the where known in the early years, formed in 1957 and, like most of the Liverpool groups, started out playing skiffle. They progressed from playing dance halls and church halls to the Cavern Club combining skiffle with trad-jazz. In 1961 Cavern DJ, Bob Wooler, compiled a Top 10 list of the best Liverpool groups, he placed The Beatles at No. 1 but beneath his list he added ‘excluding the Bluegenes, they are beyond comparison, in a class of their own’. They had an hours spot every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night and when the club opened on a Tuesday night, Ray McFall, the clubs owner, asked them to play on the Tuesday and suggested they had guest groups including Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy Kramer and the Coasters and The Beatles. Ray Ennis recalls ‘on the night The Beatles made their debut as guests in March 1961, we
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