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Monday 13 February 2023

Ken Dodd.

Here comes the guy from "Nutty Ash" with the funny teeth and "Tickling Stick" accompanied not by his "Diddy Men" but by an Orchestra singing his Hit song "Tears" followed by a selection of semi-well known songs !!!

Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE (8 November 1927 – 11 March 2018) was an English comedian, singer and occasional actor. He was described as "the last great music hall entertainer", and was primarily known for his live stand-up performances. His stand-up comedy style was fast and relied on the rapid delivery of one-liner jokes. He said that his comic influences included other Liverpool comedians like Arthur Askey, Robb Wilton, Tommy Handley and the "cheeky chappy" from Brighton, Max Miller.
Dodd had many hit records, charting on 18 occasions in the UK Top 40, including his first single "Love Is Like a Violin" (1960), produced on Decca Records by Alex Wharton, which charted at number 8 (UK). His version of Bill Anderson's song "Happiness" charted in 1964 and became Dodd's signature song....Dodd's recording of "Tears" on the Columbia label topped the UK singles chart for five weeks in 1965, becoming the biggest hit single in Britain that year and selling over a million copies in the UK alone. The recording is the third best selling song of the 1960s in Britain; at the time it was the UK's biggest selling single by a solo artist, and remains one of the biggest selling singles of all time.

1. Tears
2. Only A Rose
3. How Wonderful To Know
4. I'll Find A Way
5. Moonlight Clair De Lune
6. Only You

1. What A Wonderful World
2. Happy Days And Lonely Nights
3. For Somebody Special
4. If I Should Lose
5. Sweet Memories
6.Last Mile Home

          2. Happy Days And Lonely Nights

6 comments:

  1. Thank you for this album.

    Jan V

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  2. For this one also no link, unfortunately! But thanks also!

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  3. Hi TG ..fingers crossed I think I might have solved the problem !! ..no help from Blogger but I Found that the comment site
    have been treating the comment as Spam there is a tick which i have clicked to say its not spam and it comes back with the links...so i've ticked all the ones that have dissapeared hopefully thaey will be there above your comment....Cheers

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  4. Thanks a lot for all your work, many many thanks!

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