Bay City Rollers
Bay City Rollers - was a popular British pop band of the 1970s and came from Scotland. The group had five members - drummer Derek Longmuir, bass player Alan Longmuir, singer Les McKeon and guitarists Stuart Wood and Eric Faulkner. Their Scottish identity was a major factor in their marketing, and they were one of few groups whose fans had a completely distinctive style of dress, the main elements of which were mid-calf-length tartan trousers and tartan scarves.
The Rollers were managed by Tam Paton, later exposed as a paedophile, who claimed to have discovered them while selling potatoes in Preston Pans near Edinburgh.
They had several hits that made to the Top 3 of the British charts, and for a period had their own television series, entitled Shang a Lang (the title of one of their hits). By Spring of 1975, the Rollers were one of the highest selling acts in Britain, and announced their next single, a cover of the Four Seasons' "Bye Bye Baby". The single went to number 1 in March '75 and sold a million copies.
They had a dedicated following of teenage girls that was so intense, that the media called it "Rollermania". However, they were never popular with music critics nor the male audience and their popularity quickly waned.
The band members have said they chose their band's name by throwing a dart at a map of the United States. The dart landed on the map near the community of Bay City, Michigan.
A popular playground chant of the time went:
B-A-Y, B-A-Y, B-A-Y-C-I-T-Y, With an R-O-double-L, E-R-S, Bay City Rollers are the best!
Other hits include: