A belated happy birthday to Eddie Holman, 77 on 3rd June.
If you can ignore the watermarks on the video, this is a lovely clip of Eddie performing Don't Stop Now on TV in 1966. Boy, that falsetto.
Astonishingly, this song didn't chart in the UK and in fact his sole UK hit was (Hey There) Lonely Girl. The song was a cover version of Ruby & The Romantics' 1963 (US) hit, Hey There Lonely Boy, which Eddie recorded in 1969 and spent 2 weeks at #4 in the UK in November 1974.
Eddie was in pretty good company for that fortnight. David Essex and Queen held the #1 and #2 spot with Gonna Make You A Star and Killer Queen respectively, whilst Ken Boothe and Barry White swapped places at #3 and #5 with Everything I Own and You're My First, My Last, My Everything.
ESSEX!!! Always good to hear about the man with the world's twinkliest eyes
ReplyDeleteI thought Nick Cave had stolen that particular crown, Ernie?
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