CUSMA

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 very short story about a band called CUSMA. It was a mixture of people from Scotland, Ireland and Holland. A Scottish newspaper said they all came from Scotland, and this is a big misunderstanding from a journalist who thought he could sell them better if they came from Scotland.
Cusma appeared in the UK record market on the EMI label Columbia, with a single called "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday". This was in the early 70s. According to EMI, the best listing was 27th place. The picture below came from a scrapbook, it is an article from a Norwegian pop magazine called "Det Nye". It is in Norwegian and it describes when the Scottish pop group came to a Norwegian town called "Trondheim" to celebrate Christmas together with a very popular Norwegian group GLUNTAN.