author: spencer leigh

... Hey There' from The Pajama Game, produced by Mitch Miller. When Frank met the composer Richard Adler at a party, he said to him, 'I'm the schmuck who turned down 'Hey There'.' He indulged in some good-natured banter on The Amos'n'Andy ...

... (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me'. Eve Taylor thought that the song would be perfect for Sandie and the arrangement was by a classical musician, Les Williams, making his pop debut. Considering that Sandie was an ...

... The Sixteenth Round, and went to visit him in prison. Dylan felt that he had been wrongly convicted: so too did Muhammad Ali and Jesse Jackson, but Dylan had the ultimate means at his disposal as he could write a song about it. He and ...

... piano on 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', bass on the Byrds' 'Mr Tambourine Man', harmonica on Dean Martin's 'Houston' and being the guitar man on Bread's 'Guitar Man'. He had also raised cattle and prospected for gold (and found it) ...

... script, but that wasn't his audition piece. When he met Hal Wallis at Paramount, actually on April Fool's Day, he was asked to read from a new script, The Rainmaker. He was reading the part of Jimmy Curry and acting with Frank Faylen ...

... sheet music fell to the floor and rather than stop singing , Louis improvised his vocal . His nonsense syllables have come to be known as ' scat ' , a style copied by Ella Fitzgerald , Little Richard and Van Morrison , to name but three ...

... ukulele. Steve Harley sang Elvis Presley's 'Love Me' “which is appropriate ... Sweet Lord'. Billy Butler announced that an old drunk was going to stagger ... the Cavern, I was told that my.