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Yesterday -The Past
After some turbulent times in my early life I was lucky and proud to have joined the staff of EMI Records in 1957 and with some push and shove in the right places I managed to become Assistant to Norrie Paramor who was the A&R Manager for the Columbia Label.
Norrie was a fantastic boss, a brilliant musician, producer, composer and arranger who meticulously taught me virtually everything about record production and how to run a record label successfully. We had some phenomenal world wide success with hit records involving some very talented artists.
The Avons, Tommy Bruce, Ricky Valance, Frank Ifield, Cliff Richard and The Shadows and .............. Helen Shapiro.
Helen was only thirteen and a half years old when I discovered her. She was to be one of the greatest successes of my entire career because, with Mike Hawker I also wrote her most successful songs “Don’t Treat Me Like A Child” (No3), “You Don’t Know” (No1), “Walking Back To Happiness” (No1), “Little Miss Lonely” (No12), “Look Who It Is”, “Til I Hear The Truth From You” etc.
“Walking Back to Happiness” won Mike Hawker and I the most prestigious award of all, “The Ivor Novello Award” for the biggest song of the year in 1961.
Music “Walking Back To Happiness” - Helen Shapiro
Norrie was a fantastic boss, a brilliant musician, producer, composer and arranger who meticulously taught me virtually everything about record production and how to run a record label successfully. We had some phenomenal world wide success with hit records involving some very talented artists.
The Avons, Tommy Bruce, Ricky Valance, Frank Ifield, Cliff Richard and The Shadows and .............. Helen Shapiro.
Helen was only thirteen and a half years old when I discovered her. She was to be one of the greatest successes of my entire career because, with Mike Hawker I also wrote her most successful songs “Don’t Treat Me Like A Child” (No3), “You Don’t Know” (No1), “Walking Back To Happiness” (No1), “Little Miss Lonely” (No12), “Look Who It Is”, “Til I Hear The Truth From You” etc.
“Walking Back to Happiness” won Mike Hawker and I the most prestigious award of all, “The Ivor Novello Award” for the biggest song of the year in 1961.
Music “Walking Back To Happiness” - Helen Shapiro
