850 Them “Gloria” 1964

“The release of ‘Baby Please Don’t Go/’Gloria’ in November of 1964 is the landmark record that changed, however briefly, how the world saw Belfast and, just as importantly, how Belfast saw itself…The record is ‘one of the greatest achievements of the British R’n’B scene of the time and, by extension, one of the most significant achievements of the beat era in Ireland’. It was selected as the signature theme tune of ‘the most hip programme on British television of the time’—Ready Set Go—and hence conferred on Belfast a ‘cultural cache that wasn’t there previously” (Noel McLaughlin, Joanna Braniff, Popular Music History, 2015).

Them “Gloria”