Alan Cartwright Ray Draper
Phil Kenzie Aliki Ashman (and more unknown) **new
info** - see below.
Fred D'Albert Fraser, writing
for the Friars Aylesbury website in 2010 said:
"Sweet
Water Canal were signed to Ronnie Scott's Management in 1969, (Ronnie
Scott's Jazz club).Line up was: Aliki Ashman ,vocals. Alan Cartwright,Bass
gtr. Roy (wilf)Davies,Hammond organ, Tony Brown aka Tony Knight (Chessman,Skin
Alley) Drums. Fred D'Albert ,Guitar.( Marty Wilde, Joe Brown, The
Drifters) . Saxes were Phil Kenzie, Dave Coxhill, Geoff Driscoll. Trumpet
was Pat Higgs, also american jazz star on tuba, valve trombone was Ray
Draper. A lot of the band were formally The Freddy Mack band.
I know , I was there, regards , Fred
D'Albert . ( 21 years with the Drifters )
Clippings from The Bucks Herald and Bucks
Advertiser
Original local advert - seems that Writing
on the Wall were replaced at the last minute. Writing on the Wall did go
on to play Friars later in 1970
Research continues but
little is known about this band at this stage. Cartwright later joined Procol Harum. Draper died in 1982 in a robbery.
Update
January 2010 from Aliki's record company:
Sweetwater
Canal was formed by Aliki Ashman when she signed management to Ronnie
Scott's and was playing in the direction of CTA [
Chicago] We shall endeavor to recall the lineup but Ray Draper was not a member but
was a guest and Roy [Wilf] Davies was on keyboards and most played with
The Freddy Mack Band
Aliki is
alive and well living near Melbourne Australia working on her Third
totally solo album and Wilf passed away years ago when he was still with
Gonzalez
