Effective period / Period of releases: 1966 - 1968

Members: Simon Junior, Maurice Patton (2)

Name written in Chinese: 摩利士賓敦領導 音符樂隊

Maurice Patton And The Melodians (usually featured with Choh Ying and Simon Jr. on drums) recorded songs in English and Chinese with labels like Hero Records, Cortersions $, Blue Star Records, Art Sea, Roxy Records, Happy Records. The studio involved was usually the Pearl, Dean & Kinetex Studios. Maurice Patton was also marketed as solo artist (sometimes with the Melodians a s backing band).
Singers like Simon Junior, Ling Seow, Wong Chin Yian, Choh Ying, Patrina, usually singing in Chinese, were backed by Patton and his group. Some of these Chinese songs also became covers with English lyrics and sung by Simon Junior.

Some titles like Man Lee, My Girl, Wait For Me, Night Dream, Born To Live, Dream Of Spring, Deep Deep Love were popular Chinese tunes. English speaking listeners would be familiar with the melody but not the language.

Other songs by Patton and his boys are covers of 60s US and UK pop songs.
Maurice Patton passed away in June 1991.
Simon Jr. lives in Iloilo, the Philippines, and still sings in church under his real name Simon Anora.