The Jimmy C

All songs are downloadable! If you like what you hear, just drop me a line. If enough requests are made (or I get bored) I'll post new songs.
The Jimmy C were the 60's music scene's best kept secret. Influenced by the beatles look-alike image, The 5 members of The Jimmy C actually travelled to Stockholm to have reconstructive surgery by controversial Dr. Vaughn Schleppenheimer in February 1962 to all actually look alike. Once this proceedure was complete, silent partner & wealthy benefactor James Alastair Coghill put into action his plan to launch his creation to the top.
Unfortunately he missed and they landed somewhere in the middle. After only a year of trying, Coghill became restless and very publically severed his ties with the group by committing suicide on a busy London street. The initial effect was lost on the group since they were from Melbourne, Australia, and didn't actually learn of the tragic accident until after their first album & single went #1 locally.
They continued without their mentor and had moderate success throughout the sixties: various charting singles, good attendance at performances, select apprarances on the popular music TV shows... though rumors started to spread that James Coghill had in fact faked his death (in spite of thirty-five eye witneses who saw him decapitated) and was writing all their material and controlling the progress of the group. So little is known about Coghill that many believe him to be an invention of the group (recent articles in music press & web blogs even claim it's all just the invention of a 29 year old Melbourne man with a 4-track tape recorder) though more likley the group were capitalising on the public suicide to further their career.
By 1968 the group decided to split. They all felt that they had gained all the success they would and were creatively spent. The five Jimmy C's went their separate ways, some continuing in solo careers others branching out into film & accounting. Their identical appearance has made it impossible to know which did what and rumors suggest they would swap occasionally.
Their recorded legacy was all but lost until recently, at a charity auction, the indipendant record company "Shrunken Head Records" bid for some luggage from the estate of George Harrison (Harrison claimed to know The Jimmy C and even says he played with them). In the Luggage - 3 old suitcases mainly containing floral baithing trunks & hawaiian shirts - were 1/2" master tapes unlabled and in no order of The Jimmy C. The people at Shrunken Head went to work on the tapes and from any recorded evidence, pieced together the two available albums: "Project E.G.O" and "The Jimmy C".
Photos were also in the cases with the tapes and have been included in this site. There are more songs available from the two albums and on request can be posted as mp3s. As more of the tapes are cleaned up, transferred to digital format and sorted, other Jimmy C albums will be made available. Other releases from Shrunken Head Records are the first 2 EPs by The Devilrock Four. www.myspace.com/thedevilrockfour www.thedevilrockfour.com
Here's something totally unrelated from a very clever and unrecognised man:
Neil Innes - How Sweet To Be An Idiot.