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Wife and husband duo consisting of organist Cherry Wainer and drummer Don Storer.
Cherry Wainer (March 2, 1935 – November 14, 2014) was a South African-born musician, best known as a member of Lord Rockingham's XI and a soloist on the Hammond organ.
Wainer was born in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. A piano player since childhood she was influenced by Jimmy Smith (musician) to learn jazz keyboard. In her first recording she collaborated with accordianist Nico Carstens on an early South African rock and roll 10" titled "Flying High". She first became known to UK television audiences as a regular in the 1950s magazine program Lunchbox, with Noele Gordon. She subsequently featured as a session musician in Oh, Boy!, one of the first British series to feature rock 'n' roll regularly, with Lord Rockingham's XI, a "scratch" band led by Harry Robinson, which also included Benny Green and Red Price. Their single, "Hoots Mon", was number one in the UK charts in 1958. Along with the band, Wainer played in the 1959 Royal Variet
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Cherry Wainer
Rock and Roll musician (1935–2014)
Cherry Wainer (March 2, 1935 – November 14, 2014) was a South African-born musician, best known as a member of Lord Rockingham's XI and a soloist on the Hammond organ.[2]
Biography
Wainer was born in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, the daughter of a music promoter. A piano player since childhood, she once said: "I was going to be a classical pianist and at the age of eight, I performed a concerto with an orchestra." When taking up the Hammond organ, she was influenced by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith.[3]
In her first recording she collaborated with accordionist Nico Carstens on an early South African rock and roll 10" LP titled Flying High.[4][5] On moving to the United Kingdom in 1958 with drummer Don Storer, her future husband, her flatmate, the singer Georgia Brown, introduced Wainer to her manager, Tito Burns, who managed to gain spots for her on the light-entertainment programme Lunchbox.[3][6] She became a regular on ATV-Midland's L Cherry Wainer Copyright ©giglard.pages.dev 2025•
In her first recording she collaborated with accordionist Nico Carstens on an early South African rock and roll 10" LP titled Flying High. On moving to the United Kingdom in 1958 with drummer Don Storer, her future husband, her flatmate, the singer Georgia Brown, introduced Cherry to her manager, Tito Burns, who managed to gain spots for her on the light-entertainment programme Lunchbox. She became a regular on ATV-Midland's Lunchbox from Birmingham, which was hosted by Noele Gordon.
From summer 1958 Cherry was the featured Hammond organist in groundbreaking young producer Jack Good's ABC-TV Oh Boy!, one of Britain's first teenage all-music 'Live' TV shows following Good's resignation from his BBC-TV hit show Six-Five Special. Oh Boy! featu