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“Winchester Cathedral” is a song released in late 1966 by Fontana Records, whereupon it shot to the No. 1 spot in Canada on the RPM 100 national singles charts and shortly thereafter in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was released by The New Vaudeville Band, a novelty group established by the song’s composer, Geoff Stephens. Stephens was a big fan of tunes from the British music hall era (or what Americans would call “Vaudeville”), so he wrote “Winchester Cathedral” in that vein, complete with a Rudy Vallée sound-a-like (John Carter) singing through his hands to imitate a megaphone sound. Although recorded entirely by session musicians, when the song became an international hit, an actual band had to be assembled, which toured extensively under the tutelage of ... Read on...