Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band
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Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band, also billed as Bob Kerr and His Whoopee Band, is a jazz band
Jazz band
A jazz band is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music. Jazz bands usually consist of a rhythm section and a horn section, in the early days often trumpet, trombone, and clarinet with rhythm section of piano, banjo, bass or tuba, and drums.-Eras:SwingDuring the swing era in the mid-twentieth...

 which started in 1967 and continues to perform today. It was an offshoot of the eclectic Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band are a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s...

, and shared many similarities with other outfits of the time such as The New Vaudeville Band
The New Vaudeville Band
The New Vaudeville Band was a group created by songwriter Geoff Stephens in 1966 to record his novelty composition "Winchester Cathedral", a song inspired by the dance bands of the 1920s and a Rudy Vallee megaphone style vocal...

 and The Temperance Seven
The Temperance Seven
The Temperance Seven is a British band specializing in 1920s-style jazz music.- Career :The Temperance Seven were founded at Christmas 1955, although it has been alleged they first "saw the light" in the Pasadena Cocoa Rooms, Balls Pond Road, North London, in 1904...

. Kerr was a member of both the Bonzos and the New Vaudeville Band.

The band's publicity manager was originally Laurie Bamford
Laurie Bamford
Laurence "Laurie" John Bamford was a popular British Numismatist also known as the 'smartly dressed tramp'....

 the well-known Numismatist who died in 2005. Several former members formed Bill Posters Will Be Band
Bill Posters Will Be Band
Bill Posters Will Be Band is a comic musical group formed by musicians who were members of The Bonzo Dog Band and Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band.The band was formed in 1983 by Biff Harrison, Jim "Golden Boots" Chambers, Evil John Gieves Watson , Sam Spoons, Hugh Crozier and Roger Ruskin Spear.They still...

 in 1983. Current members of Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band are Bob Kerr
Bob Kerr (musician)
Bob Kerr is a comic musician who plays trumpet and cornet. He was originally a member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and was persuaded by Geoff Stephens to join The New Vaudeville Band before forming his own Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band...

, John "The Professor" Percival, Malcolm Sked, Bert Lamb and Henri Harrison.

Former members

Former members of the band have included:
  • Vernon Dudley Bowhay-Nowell
  • Ian Howarth
  • Frankie Tomes
  • Sam Spoons
  • Hugh Crozier
  • Evil John Gieves Watson
  • Biff Harrison
  • Jim "Golden Boots" Chambers
  • David "Mr Piano" Glasson
  • Sean Moyses
  • Dangerous Dave Keech
  • Spike Botterill
  • Henry Davis
  • Clive Fenton
  • Tim Phillips
  • Fred Ward
  • Sir Alan Buckley
  • Phil Buckley
  • Richard White
  • Dave Turner
  • Roscoe (The Binman) Birchmore
  • Graham Collicott
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