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Willam and Peter Cusma are brothers, together with Harry Von Hook comes they all from Holland. Ian Mc Raye " Daddy" was the one and only from Scotland, and Harry O'Brian is still an Irishman.
It's was such an unbelievable funny gang, where we are talking about some abnormal instruments orchestrated for pop band. Peter played Bassguitar. Willam on Drums and percussion. Harry O' Brian' "Mr. O" played keyboards and all sorts of guitars. Ian Mc Raye "Daddy" played on everything he could lays his hands on. Fiddle, bagpipe, harps, accordion, flutes, just name some.....Harry Von Hook was the lead singer and front figure, and from time to time they saw him also played on the piano.

We had to clip a little away some text from the Norwegian pop magazine "DET NYE" The paper has been damaged after so many years stored at the attic. But this side is on English so I don't think it's a big problem.

This is a short story about a band called CUSMA. It's a mix of folks from Scotland, Ireland and Holland. Some newspaper said they all came from Scotland, that's a big misunderstanding from a sales agent, who belived he could sell everything. Cusma showed up on the British record market on EMI label Columbia, with a single called "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday". This was in the begining of the 70's. The best listing was pursuant to EMI an 27 place. The picture below came from a scrapbook, it's an article from a Norwegian pop magazine called "Det Nye". It's on Norwegian, and it describes when the Scottish popgroup came to an Norwegian town called Trondheim. They celebrated Christmas together with a very so popular Norwegian group GLUNTAN