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Williams "Bill" Keating (lead guitar)
Maurice "Mo" Caines (vocals, rhythm guiar)
Basil Haire (drums)
Pierre LaJeunesse (piano)

A typical early 1960s Merseybeat sounding act from Labrador City, Newfoundland, who entertained regularly at the Iron Ore Company of Canada's Ashuanipi Social Club. All the members of the band, except Haire, had day jobs at the Iron Ore Company. Keating had previously been in Wilf Doyle's orchestra. Caines worked in radio in Stephenville and LaJeunesse studied at the Quebec Conservatory of Music. Haire was a teacher at Wabush College in Labrador.

Their lone, self-titled album recorded in Montreal 1965 is considered the first full-length by a band from Newfoundland. The group split up in 1966. Caines formed The Krystals with Dutch musician Stan Erbrink (ex-The Black Knights). They released one album in 1968; Haire now works for the Government of Prince Edward Island and lives in Summerside, PEI.

A re-issue of the band's material on Rock In Beat Records has been promised for many years but the disc has yet to materialize.

with notes from Art Rockwood



Singles
1965 That's My Girl/Three Long Days And Nights (Melbourne) WG-3216
1965 Here She Comes/Everywhere (Melbourne) WG-3218?


Albums
1965 Keatniks (Melbourne) AM-4011

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Compilation Tracks