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- ↑ https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/10073355.houghton-weavers-at-pyramid/
- ↑ Oscar Stewart Blandamer Archived 26 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine "Stewart wrote his most successful song “Darlin” in 1970, but it wasn’t until 1977 that the song was heard by the management of the British country band “Poacher” (who had won a British tv talent show “New Faces”). It was expected that “Darlin” would be a big hit for them, but despite a great deal of airplay it didn’t happen. However, the single did make the US country charts, which was a rarity for a British act."
- ↑ Michael Brocken Other Voices: Hidden Histories of Liverpool's Popular ... 1409493962 - 2013 "Others such as the Hillsiders were also immersed in rock 'n' roll and Kenny Johnson's later band Northwind and (from Warrington) Poacher also wrote their own material and incorporated this into their live sets. Indeed Poacher enjoyed a major worldwide hit when blues-rocker Frankie Miller recorded their song 'Darlin' in 1978."
- ↑ Billboard - 13 Oct. 1979 "The Warrington based group Poacher appeared last November at the Tulsa International Music Festival and achieved a U.S. top 90 country chart placing with "Darlin'"; ... "
- ↑ Billboard - 25 March 1978 Country act Poacher rides through Warrington on a Wells Fargo .
- ↑ Colin Larkin - The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music Volume 3 -1561591769 1995 Page 2224 "Her first album, however, Sarah's Steel Line, was made with the Warrington band, Poacher."
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