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Newspaper clipping about Carol:

“CLUB AND CABARET SPOTS FOR CAROL”

"I doubt if the name Mrs. Carol Loftus will ring any chords in the minds of Ellesmere Port's teenage population, but four years ago - then known as Carol Whitfield - she had a record, “Tears On My Pillow", in the Top 100 Chart. But since then, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge, and now Carol is singing with the Renos in clubs and appearing in cabaret around the North West. The Renos are not the group with which Carol sang in 1964, but a group which she had formed with her husband Geoff two years ago. Carol's singing career started the original Renos way back in 1964 when the Beatles had become famous overnight and many groups were springing 'up. In January 1966, Carol auditioned for a place with a Liverpool group The Five Aces, who were advertising for a female singer. Carol took the audition at the Phoenix Club, Cromwell Road, and within just 30 minutes of listening to her, the group's manager Mr. Ralph Harvey engaged her. When she signed up, Carol had realised an ambition of hers to turn professional and three weeks later with the Aces, Carol was on a Continental tour of Germany.

In June 1966, the Five Aces changed their name to the Memories, and with Carol they went into the recording studio to wax "Tears On My Pillow'' and the flip, "Crying My Eyes Out". Carol of 3l7 Crescent Road told me last week that it had been an experience singing with groups, and because her preference is singing in a team, she would not like to go solo."

The Renos are pictured (left to right is Pete Dooley, Rod Smith, Carol, Geoff, and George Dias.