Chas McDevitt and Nancy Whiskey
Chas McDevitt and Nancy Whiskey were Glaswegians who teamed up in London to record one of the skiffle movement’s most memorable singles, ‘Freight Train’. Although it concerned an outlaw who had killed his friend and was expecting retribution – “got no future, got no hope, got nothing but the rope” – they made it so chirpy and catchy that it buzzed up the charts in both Britain and America. They flew to New York to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, sharing the bill with another duo enjoying their first hit, the Everly Brothers – but within a year, personal and musical differences had rent their relationship asunder.
Read all about them in ‘The Restless Generation’ by Pete Frame.
