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.
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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
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