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Irish pop group

The Bachelors were a popular music group, originating from Dublin, Ireland, but primarily based in the United Kingdom. They had several international hits during the 1960s, including eight top ten singles in the UK between 1963 and 1966.

Throughout the 1960s, the Bachelors racked up hit singles and albums, made guest appearances on all the then current TV shows, and appeared in two Royal Variety TV shows. In 1963, they starred in It's All Over Town with Frankie Vaughan and The Springfields. The following year they appeared on the TV show Sunday Night at the London Palladium, then hosted by Bruce Forsyth: this episode, according to Paul Gambaccini, achieved the largest viewing audience ever for this very popular show. The group began 1970 by appearing on the BBC's highly rated review of the 1960s' music scene Pop Go The Sixties performing "Charmaine" and "Diane" live on the show, which was broadcast on BBC1 on 1 January 1970. In December 2016, Con and Dec (performing as The Bachelors) appeared in Channel 4's Skeg Vegas, a one off documentary following Skegness' Number One Entertainment Agent Noel Gee.

The Bachelors' version of "Charmaine", with its descending melody that had already made it an evergreen, jogs along to a country guitar strum and a sprinkling of piano licks. Dick Rowe chose American Shel Talmy as record producer, who went on to produce some of The Kinks' classic rock hits. Another 1927 movie theme song, "Diane"—penned by the same songwriters as "Charmaine", Erno Rapee and Lew Pollack, and arranged in the same Nashville like manner, but produced by Michael Barclay—was released in 1964 and gave the group their biggest international hit, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart, as well as an American breakthrough at number ten. Four of their hit songs ("Charmaine","Ramona","Marie" and "Diane") were taken from 1920s films. Jim Reeves had also covered the first three of these in the 1950s.

Label Year of release Title Track listing UK Chart position Decca 1963 Bachelors "Charmaine" "Bashanova" "I'll See You in My Dreams" "By the Light of the Silvery Moon"5 1964 Bachelors Vol. 2 "Diane" "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey" "Moments to Remember" "You'll Never Walk Alone"7 The Bachelors' Hits "I Wouldn't Trade You for the World" "Whispering" "Ramona" "I Believe"1 1966 The Bachelors' Hits Vol. 2 "No Arms Can Ever Hold You" "True Love for Evermore" "Marie" "In the Chapel in the Moonlight"9

Sean Helferty and Raymond Refausse. Directory of Irish Archives. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1995.