by Bruce Eder\r The Peddlers were one of the most improbable success stories in British popular music of the 1960s and 1970s -- sporting a spare, minimalist image (right down to their dark clothes and short hair), they played a brand of pop-jazz that was far removed from the rock 'n' roll they had played or the rock music that was sprouting around them, but they scored enough successes to keep going for a decade and record for two different major labels. Singer/keyboard player Roy Phillips (born May 5, 1943, Parkstone, Dorset) had previously played guitar with the Joe Meek-produced harmony-based rock & roll group the Dowlands, while bassist Tab Martin (born December 24, 1944, Liverpool) had been with the Tornados (another outfit out of Meek's orbit) and drummer Trevor Morais (born October 16, 1943, Liverpool) had been with Faron's Flamingos, a top local Liverpool band of the early '60s. The trio got together in 1964 and began playing a...