Zoot Money

Zoot Money & Big Rool Band ♪ A big time operator (1966)

Big Time Operator
The Uncle Willie

Zoot Money (George Bruno originally from Bournemouth) moved to London to join Alexis Korner to play in Blues Incorporated in the early sixties.

Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band played live at the Twisted Wheel Brazennose Street Manchester in 1964 and 1965. They used to play RnB standards such as  Ray Charles’s I Gotta Woman

His biggest hit was Big Time Operator which was quite popular for a while at the Wheel and still gets an airing now and again. We last saw him at the Victoria Theatre, Halifax He was on tour with Georgie Fame, The Blues Band and Allen Price and Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers – this was in 2003. Zoot and all the others were excellent.

Zoot Money’s 45s included:

The Uncle Willie/Zoot’s Suite (Decca F 11954) 1964
Good/Bring It On Home To Me (Columbia DB 7518) 1965
Please Stay/You Know You’ll Cry (Columbia DB 7600) 1965
Something Is Worrying Me/Stubborn Kind Of Fellow (Columbia DB 7697) 1965
The Many Faces Of Love/Jump Back (Columbia DB 7768) 1965
Let’s Run For Cover/Self-Discipline (Columbia DB 7876) 1966
Big Time Operator/Zoot’s Sermon (Columbia DB 7975) 1966
The Star Of The Show (The La La Song)/ The Mound Moves (Columbia DB 8090) 1966
I Really Learnt How To Cry/Nick Knack (Columbia DB 8172) 1967
No One But You/Prisoner (Polydor 2058 020) 1970

EP:

(A) BIG TIME OPERATOR (Columbia SEG 8519) 1966

Band Personnel has included:

ZOOT MONEY organ, vocals
PETER BROOKS drums
COLIN ALLEN drums
BERNIE BERNS drums
KEVIN DRAKE tenor sax
JOHNNY KING bass
NICK NEWELL tenor sax
ANDY SUMMERS guitar  (Later joined The Police – the band that is…)
CLIVE BURROWS bass sax
PAUL WILLIAMS bass, vocals
JOHNNY ALMOND sax
JEFF CONDON trumpet, flute, flugel horn
JOHN BEAUCHAMP trombone
MIKE COTTON trumpet
LEM LUBIN bass
MIKE MOODY guitar
ROGER COLLIS guitar

Zoot Money – Wikipedia