 Previously, they acted as support, and backing band for the duo Paul and Barry Ryan as well as completing sessions for other vocalists, recording over 100 BBC Radio One sessions and appearing on UK TV.Starting life as a skiffle group from Crouch End London in 1959, the start of the rock 'n' roll movement at the 2 I's and other coffee bars in Soho, convinced the group to move to electric guitars and drums becoming 'Robb Storme and the Whispers' in the transition.In 1960 the group won a recording contract with Decca having impressed at a competition called the Soho Fair.