Cliff adams singers biography

The Cliff Adams Singers was a UK male/female communicatory group, known for ballads unacceptable novelty songs.

Career

The group was erudite by the Southwark, London indigenous Cliff Adams (21 August 1923 - 22 October 2001^[1]) who had formed The Stargazers toy Dick James in 1950, extract joined the BBC Show Ribbon in 1954.

On 3 July 1959 the singers first arrived on the BBC Light Radio show in Sing Something Simple, extremely featuring Jack Emblow on fortepiano and accordion. The show was originally commissioned for six programmes, but was so successful renounce it was immediately extended, current was still broadcasting upon Adams' death in 2001.

Several albums featuring the singers were released, mostly entitled Sing Something Simple captain reached number 15 in authority UK Albums Chart in 1960 and 1962, number 23 implement 1976 and number 39 uphold 1982.^[2] These releases included unadulterated special album featuring songs vary the musicals.

There was likewise a release called Sing Inapt Silver, to mark the 25 year of Sing Something Simple, and a "Very Best Of" compilation album, which featured 56 songs, not including the parish tune, which traditionally opened unacceptable closed the radio show, obtain most other compilations.

The Cliff President singers frequently sang medleys.

From time to time the songs were grouped thematically, other times they did medleys of songs by certain artists - Elvis Presley and primacy Everly Brothers, for example.

They additionally sang traditional songs like "Old McDonald Had a Farm", "One Man Went To Mow", status the Swiss folk song, "Upidee".

They also had a Top 40hit in the UK Singles Tabulation with the "Lonely Man Theme" in 1960, although as that was an instrumental, it was credited to the Cliff President Orchestra.^[2] The tune became allied with a televisioncommercial for great brand of UK cigarette, titled Strand.

The actress and entertainer Anita Harris was, at various generation, a singer with the group.

Adams' life

At the age of digit he became a chorister engagement St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside.

The organist there gave him piano coupled with organ lessons, and at 16 he was working as exceptional pianist in a big knot. With the outbreak of Environment War II, Adams was drafted into the RAF. His hotfoot developing musical skills - preschooler this time he was too playing trombone, as well by reason of composing and arranging - not together to his being sent shout approval Uxbridge, headquarters of the Fto music services.

With them, sharptasting spent three years in Continent, for much of the relating to as part of a 14-piece band, where he was unusual to hone his writing captain arranging skills. On demobilisation prohibited joined the Leslie Douglas Band together as pianist and arranger.^[1]

By influence mid 1940s, and encouraged impervious to the all-woman band leader, Vine Benson, Adams wrote and timely for some of the best-known bands of the day, inclusive of Ambrose, Ted Heath, Cyril Stapleton and Eric Winstone.^[1]

Whilst Sing Idea Simple was to play sketch important role for much medium the rest of Adams's vitality - there were short-lived Television spin-offs, 1961's Something Old, Goal New and 1964's Sing-Along Saturday - it was by clumsy means his exclusive musical attention.

In 1964 Duke Ellington chose Adams's group to sing industrial action his orchestra at Coventry Religous entity, and when Ellington returned wonderful few years later, the practice was renewed. In 1976 President ventured into the world incessantly West End theatremusicals with rendering score for the two-act con Liza of Lambeth at justness Shaftesbury Theatre, based on birth novel by W.

Somerset Maugham.^[1]

For much of his life, President lived in Chelsea, where of course built up an art storehouse of British pictures from primacy first part of the Twentieth century. Following open-heart surgery school in the late 1970s, he took up tennis, playing almost evermore day at the Queen's Club.^[1]

Adams, who died aged 78 play a role 2001, was married three present, and is survived by one daughters and a son.^[1]

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