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The Just Us

They also recruited a new singer, former Mynah Birds singer Jimmy Livingstone (born 28 February 1938), who Neilson had befriended in Long & McQuade’s music store where he worked in the backroom as an amplifier and guitar repairman.


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Stan Endersby

During late 1965, he joined The Just Us alongside singers Jimmy Livingston (ex-Mynah Birds) and Neil Lillie aka Neil Merryweather, bass player Wayne Davis, keyboard player Ed Roth and drummer Bob Ablack.

The Mynah Birds

In the meantime, Goldy McJohn, who’d left the Mynah Birds a few years earlier, helped form the band Steppenwolf (which ex-Mynah Byrds bassist Nick St. Nicholas later joined).

The Mynah Birds grew out of a 1964 group called the Sailorboys, fronted by Jimmy Livingston and also including guitarist Ian Goble, drummer Rick Cameron, organist Goldy McJohn and bass player Nick St. Nicholas.