Levi Smith's Clefs Jumping Standing Still) on bass guitar, Rod Stone (ex-the Librettos, Normie Rowe & the Playboys) on guitar and Peter Williams (ex-Max Merritt & the Meteors) on lead vocals and guitar. They were popular in Australia in the late 1960s; after their demise in 1971, Harris became a producer-arranger. Harris (1941–2004) died of throat cancer, aged 63. After Harris left McAskill assumed leadership and at the suggestion of talent manager, Peter Raphael, they changed their name to Levi Smith's Clefs (a reference to Four Tops' lead singer Levi Stubbs). According to McFarlane, "Scottish-born Barrie McAskill earned a reputation as one of
Cuddly Dudley (singer) band, The Embraceable Four, with whom he supported The Platters on their 1960 UK tour, and released a second single, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Too Pooped To Pop". In 1961 he became the lead singer with "The Redcaps", with whom he released a single "Sitting on a Train". Originally known as "Red-E-Lewis and the Redcaps" (named after Gene Vincent's The Blue Caps) original lead singer Reddy Lewis (Edward Stubbs) had left to form the Red Cats, with Jimmy Page on guitar. The Redcaps comprised Mick Green, Vic Cooper, Frank Farley, Johnny Patto and Johnny Spence, and from May–July 1961