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Work on the new band by founder members Ricky Lee Brawn and Peter Davenport began in August 1980 and following a series of auditions Anders Janes, John Wallace and Danny Brittain were added to the line-up. After a succession of concerts and gigs during 1981, Muff Winwood secured The Stargazers a recording contract on the CBS Epic Records (now ...
Recording for Decca, The Stargazers enjoyed considerable commercial success during the 1950s, including two United Kingdom number one hit singles on their own, "Broken Wings", [1] which was the first recording by a native British act to top the UK Singles Chart (all previous number one singles were by American artists), [2] and "I See the Moon", along with a third number one hit with Dickie ...
Born in 1964 in Surrey, [3] England, Datchler was influenced by his father Fred Datchler, a singer and saxophonist in two popular vocal groups of the 1950s, the Stargazers and the Polkadots. The Stargazers were the first British group to have a No. 1 hit on the UK chart, [4] and had their own weekly radio show on the BBC. [5]
Stargazers, Angel of Babylon, Rat Race, Down in the Dark, Alone I Remember, Promised Land Let the Storm Descend Upon You, Ghostlights, Lucifer, Wake up to the Moon Book of Shallows, The Raven Child, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Stargazers recorded their version in London on 6 January 1953, produced by Dick Rowe, with uncredited accompaniment directed by Nat Temple. [6] [7] [8] Coming just a few months after the launch of the singles chart, it was the first hit for the group, entering the New Musical Express listings on 7 February 1953. It dropped out of the chart ...
The Stargazers' recording, released on the Decca Records label, reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1954. [1] [2] In taking "I See the Moon" to number one, the Stargazers became the first act in British chart history to reach number one with their first two records to reach the chart. [1] Several singles released in the interim failed ...
Susan Kay Bogguss (born December 30, 1956) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She began her career in the 1980s as a solo singer. In the 1990s, six of her songs were Top 10 hits, three albums were certified gold, and one album received a platinum certification.
Dianne Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan, into a musical family.Her father sang, her mother played trumpet, her uncle is bassist Charles Burrell, and her cousin is George Duke.