Dickie Valentine

Never a significant star, Dickie Valentine however had two number singles in 1955 and was voted Top UK male vocalist of 1952 while singing using the Ted Heath Band before getting into a solo career. Given birth to Richard Bryce in Marylebone, London for the 4th of November 1929, he 1st tried his hands at performing while he was operating as child acting professional and created an work, impersonating other performers of that time period. He appeared in a number of movies as a kid and got his break when he authorized to the Ted Heath Music group. He wedded Elizabeth Flynn in 1954 just like his solo profession was obtaining underway in earnest. He authorized to Decca information and his 1st graph entry was because the graph was only 90 days old in Feb 1953 having a contending edition of “Damaged Wings,”, a music that your Stargazers got to the very best and resoundly earned that particularly fight, although on later on releases he’d team up using the vocal group. Early in 1955 his edition from the passionate ballad “Finger of Suspicion” strike number one. which yr was his maximum yr with three additional top 10 singles, Mr Sandman, A Blossom Fell and I Question, all addresses of effective American tracks, and by the end of the entire year he liked his second (and last) graph topper with Xmas Alphabet, a sickly lovely tell you the spelling of the term Christmas as well as the 1st no.1 specifically made for the Xmas market. Rock and roll n Move was coming nevertheless, and Dickie Valentine’s design of crooning was regarded as traditional and even though during 1956 he previously his own Television series, The Dickie Valentine Display, which he partnered Peter Retailers, the hits got virtually dry out and he previously only one additional top 10 single the next Xmas with another try to capture the vacation market, Christmas Isle. Changing record businesses in 1959 to Pye Nixa didn’t modification his fortunes and he previously two further small hits before dropping off the graphs for the ultimate time just fourteen days shy of the brand new 10 years. He remained well-known for the cabaret and live circuit through the entire 1960s but venturing from a gig in Wales for the 6th of Might 1971, he was wiped out in an automobile crash aged simply 41.