Danny Williams - White On White - 1963 |
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Danny Williams (7 January 1942 - 6 December 2005) was a South African popular music singer. Williams earned the nickname, "Britain's Johnny Mathis", for his smooth and stylish way with a ballad. Born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Williams won a talent contest at the age of 14 and joined a touring show called Golden City Dixies that played throughout South Africa. In 1959, the show came to London where Williams impressed EMI's Norman Newell, who signed the young singer to a recording contract. He was to spend most of his life in the United Kingdom, where at first he made a few moderately successful singles, mainly popular ballads, before scoring a Number One hit with his cover version of "Moon River" in 1961. To this day it remains his most famous record. It led to his appearance in a film about a rock group, directed by Michael Winner, called Play it Cool (1962) which starred Billy Fury. In 1963, Williams joined a 20-city tour which featured The Beatles on the bill and, like many other ballad singers of the day, he was swept away by the new beat group era. Williams had no more major British hits, even though "White On White" became popular abroad and was his only U.S. Top Ten hit, charting in 1964 (#9 Pop, #3 MOR). He continued to record for HMV until 1967 while working the nightclub circuit. In 1968 he had a nervous breakdown and was declared bankrupt two years later. However, he resumed his singing career in the early 1970s, achieving a Top 30 success with "Dancin' Easy" in 1977. In the early 1990s he recorded for the Prestige record label and subsequently starred in a Nat "King" Cole tribute show which made several British tours. Compilations of his early recordings, including "Moon River", have recently been issued on CD. [1] |
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