There are two Finnish groups called Charlies. 1. The Charlies were a psychedelic hard rock trio from Lahti that played from 1964-1975. They were ”Heavy bluestrio” that played long improvisational, over ten minute drum and bass solos which were quite rare during those times in Finland. Musical influences primarily came from Cream and Jimi Hendrix The Charlies was founded by bassist Kari “Pitkä” Lehtinen and guitarist Eero ”Ebro” Ravi in the year 1964. Other band members were singer/drummer Ermo “Eko” Sivonen, singer Juha Saali and solo-guitarist Jarmo “Rödis” Jääskeläinen which soon after disbanded himself from the group. Band got their name from Kari ”Pitkä” Lehtinen’s nick name from that time ”Charlie” and Juha Saali’s surname which is pronounced as same. After the year 1968 the band had several lineup changes and was shrinked to as trio which contained Ebro, Pitkä and singer/drummer Vesa “Wellu” Lehtinen. During later sessions they had drummer Ari “Kusti” Ahlgren when Wellu wanted to concentrate solidly towards singing. They also had during recording sessions and live performances a saxophonist/flutist Erkki Summala who had artist name Igor Siddorow Both LP releases, named Julisteiden liimaajat and Buttocks were released at 1970 2. Charlies are finnish schlager group that was founded in 1995 by Charlies solo-singer Janne Leino. In the years 1995–2004 Charlies singer was Charles Plogman, who started his solo-career at summer 2004. Charlies were at first singing in swedish and played dance music and mostly performed at northern ostrobothnia, Finland. In the year 1998 Charlies choose Finnish as their language and won years enterntainer tittle. Band got viral at year 2000 with song “Vain vähän aikaa” which they performed at Syksyn Sävel -competition and they got at 2nd place. Other popular songs by the group are ”Ruskeat silmät”, ”Keinu kanssani”, ”Ansa oot” and cover song by swedish band Sten & Stanley -song ”Jag vill vara din, Margareta” (1976) finnish version ”Marja-Leena”. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Charlies">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.