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In 2004, Sailor in a German TV show were named the 45th-most successful pop band of the last 40 years in Germany. [citation needed] A biography of the group by James McCarraher, entitled A Glass of Champagne – The Official Sailor Story, was published in June 2004. Alderton left in July 2005, and Marsh returned to the line-up.
Sailor was released in August 1974 by Epic Records. [8] With an accompanying single "Traffic Jam", the album was supported by a series of tours, including a scheduled, but later cancelled concert tour with rock band Mott The Hoople, where Sailor was a supporting act, [8] [7] and a television appearance on BBC Two's music series In Concert, broadcast on 4 September 1974.
"Sailor" is the title of the English-language rendering of the 1959 schlager composition "Seemann (Deine Heimat ist das Meer)" originally written in German by Werner Scharfenberger and lyricist Fini Busch : featuring lyrics in English by Norman Newell (writing as David West), "Sailor" would in 1961 afford Petula Clark her first UK #1 hit ...
Ian Henry Murray Marsh (born 8 December 1948) is an English musician and composer, best known as a member of the pop group Sailor. [ 1 ] Marsh was born in Bath , Somerset.
Sailor signed to Epic Records-CBS Records and between 1974 and 1978 released five albums with Kajanus: Sailor, Trouble, The Third Step, Checkpoint (without Pickett) and Hideaway. Kajanus was the lead singer, guitarist and, for the first three albums, the sole songwriter for the band, penning its two major hits, "A Glass of Champagne" and "Girls ...
Sailor (band), a British pop group which peaked in the mid-1970s Sailor (Sailor album), a 1974 debut studio album by Sailor; Sailor, a 1970s BBC television series "Sailor (Your Home is the Sea)", a 1960 German-language song by Lolita "Sailor" (song), the English-language rendering by Petula Clark; The Sailor (Mickey Newbury album), 1979
Trouble is the second album by the British pop group Sailor, formed in 1973 and best known in the 1970s for their hit singles "A Glass of Champagne" and "Girls, Girls, Girls" (both featured on this album), written by the group's Norwegian lead singer and 12-string guitar player, Georg Kajanus. [1] The album reached #45 in the UK charts. [2]
A 1959 German-language recording by Lolita became an international hit in 1960–61. The song was covered in a number of languages, most notably by Petula Clark who had her first #1 UK hit with the English-language rendering "Sailor". Clark was also afforded international success with both "Sailor" and the French-language rendering "Marin".