Clinton Ford

Clinton Ford was a singer of intimate ballads and nation & western-style novelties who enjoyed several hit singles in the past due ’50s and early ’60s. His biggest strike was using the music “Fanlight Fanny” in 1962. He was created Ian George Stopford Harrison in Salford, Manchester, on November 4, 1931. His 1st professional outing was as the first choice of an organization known as the Backwards Skiffle Group, although he accepted the music wasn’t actually skiffle but cashed in on the largest craze at that time. After a stint operating like a Butlins Redcoat entertainer, he came back to his house city of Liverpool to try his good fortune like a single singer, appearing in the lately opened Cavern Golf club. He was authorized to Oriole Information, and after many false begins — a fellow Redcoat, Russ Hamilton, got recorded a large strike with “We CAN MAKE Like,” and Ford got wished to record the Marty Robbins strike “THE STORYPLOT of MY ENTIRE LIFE,” but was beaten to it in the U.K. from the Columbia designer Michael Holliday — he shaped another skiffle music group, the Hallelujah Skiffle Group. Nevertheless, skiffle had been coming out of style and success had not been forthcoming for the music group. Finally, Ford got his first flavor of chart achievement past due in 1959 having a cover from the Crimson Foley-composed music “Aged Shep,” albeit first week. However, Ford got the only edition of this popular music ever to graph in the U.K. Unable to give up running after the fads of that time period, his next graph admittance was “WAY TOO MANY Beautiful Women” inside a trad jazz design, as well as for his biggest strike he looked back again to the music hall times of George Formby, who acquired documented “Fanlight Fanny” in 1935. This resulted in an eponymous record that strike amount 16 in 1962. After touring for some time with Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen, he came back for the stint at Liverpool’s Cavern Membership to discover that the marketplace for trad jazz and nation & western-style novelties have been replaced with the noises of a particular local band known as the Beatles. He agreed upon to Columbia Information, but his profession was successfully over and just one single more strike implemented five years afterwards in 1967, a nation melody, “Set you back the entranceway” over the Piccadilly label, a subsidiary of Pye Information. Although he continuing to record and discharge albums and singles, non-e of them had been remotely commercially effective and he continuing showing up in pantomimes and little revival concerts, eventually retiring towards the Isle of Guy, where, by 2008, he still lives.