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On this day, 26 August 1967, the Melody Maker reported that Cardiff popsters Amen Corner, despite holding the number 13 slot on the Melody Maker top 30 this week, the band had won a prize for an amateur talent contest they had entered last June.
It was Granada's TV's "First Timers" show which is screened daily in the North and features artists who have never appeared on TV before, produced by Johnny Hamp.
On Wednesday this week the group were to receive a trophy and cheque from Engelbert Humperdinck.
When the group entered the contest they were still without a recording contract.
The song that won them the contest? - "Gin House."
