From this you would probably fairly deduce that Mr Webster has been a very busy man with a long recording history (and also that this blog has been going for long enough that we're going to bump into the same characters again occasionally). His professional career began to bloom in 1959 when he was the backing vocalist and rhythm guitarist in his sister Patti Brook's backing group The Diamonds. Having won the Soho Fair Vocal Group contest they were promptly given a management deal and signed to Pye, though none of the records were hits despite prestigious tour support slots with The Shadows and Emile Ford and The Checkmates.
By 1962 he had moved on to become the bass player and vocalist in Jet Black's group The Jetblacks, then after Black moved to the USA and that gig ended, he moved on to Wes Minster Five for a number of London gigs and one very obscure, regional release on the Carnival label.
Arguably one of his most sought-after singles is "Meanie Genie", released under the name Tony Brook and released on Columbia in 1964. An early example of the kind of disc eBayers may now describe as a "pounding mod stormer", copies have become unbelievably hard to obtain.
Webster's career then turned into a dizzying array of light entertainment, jumping all over the place from comedic cabaret performances to stints in the Rockin' Berries then finally, perhaps almost inevitably, to an attempt at a straightforward pop career in the seventies. As just about every accomplished performer from the sixties from David Bowie to Bernard Jewry (Alvin Stardust) and Kiki Dee began to find the tide turning in their favour in the following decade, accomplished performers with age and experience on their side became in demand in ways they perhaps haven't always been since.
