The New Vaudeville Band was the creation of Geoff Stephens, a London songwriter and producer who wrote big hits for some of his country’s most middle-of-the-road stars in the ’60s.

But the sudden arrival of copyists The New Vaudeville Band, who that year gatecrashed the UK Top 10 with novelty single Winchester Cathedral, made them reconsider their approach.

The stockmarket crash dropped him “from a million to $732”; the decline of vaudeville drove him to pastures new; but after a dozen years of musicomedy, radio, Hollywood, ...

The New Vaudeville Band, the 1960s novelty pop band, won Best Contemporary Rock & Roll Recording for their song "Winchester Cathedral" in 1967. They beat out "Monday, Monday" by The ...

They formed Vaudeville Etiquette as a Hollywood duo around 2007, but turned the band into a Seattle quintet about 2010. “She was doing comedy and acting, I was doing film scores,” Laina said ...