Jess & James - Move (1967)

Jess & James are Fernando & Toni Lameirinhas. With a career in the music business spanning over forty years, the Lameirinhas brothers’ story traces back to 1959 when by escaping the oppresive environment of Oliveira Salazar’s dictatorship in their native Portugal, the Lameirinhas family left Porto to resettle close to the Belgian city of Charleroi. There, the two brothers studied music under an Italian expatriate and bitten by the Rock’n’roll bug, founded their first band, The Modes, releasing their first single in , The Modes did not last very long, inspired by the hot music sounding from the States the brothers started a new, firey, soulful act, naming themselves as Jess (Toni) & James (Fernando) they recorded and released their new songs on a few singles before the true magic happened, it was called ’’Move’’. ’’We were so busy performing that it took us a while to realize ’’Move’’ was a big hit all over Europe’’, recall