Whose only UK hit was Here Comes the Judge
"a comic act on ""Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"" about a judge by Pigmeat Markham, whose own ""Here Comes the Judge"" - a completely different song - charted two weeks after Long's did in June 1968, and became a Top 20 hit. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 (11 weeks, entered June 1): Reached #8 ""Cashbox"" (9 weeks, entered June 1): 89, 72, 46, 13, 10, 10, 14, 18, 31 Here Comes the Judge (Shorty Long song) ""Here Comes the Judge"" is a 1968 song written by Shorty Long, Billie Jean Brown and Suzanne de Passe, and performed by Long. The song was Long's"
"Here Comes the Judge (Shorty Long song) ""Here Comes the Judge"" is a 1968 song written by Shorty Long, Billie Jean Brown and Suzanne de Passe, and performed by Long. The song was Long's biggest hit, reaching #4 on the U.S. R&B chart and #8 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. It held #10 on ""Cashbox"" for two weeks. The song stayed on the Hot 100 for 11 weeks and ""Cashbox"" for 9 weeks. The song also entered the UK chart in July 1968, and was a Top 30 hit, peaking at #30. ""Here Comes the Judge"" was inspired by"
"This had previously been the B-side to Douglas' 1969 release, ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"", a cover of the B.J. Thomas song. Douglas' 2011 album, ""The Craig Douglas Project"", included his versions of ""Auberge"" and ""Creep"". Craig Douglas Craig Douglas (born Terence Perkins, 12 August 1941) is an English pop singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His sole UK chart-topper, ""Only Sixteen"" (1959), sold more copies in the UK than Sam Cooke's original version. Born a twin, in Newport, Isle of Wight the former Terence Perkins was employed as a milkman before becoming a"
"Craig Douglas Craig Douglas (born Terence Perkins, 12 August 1941) is an English pop singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His sole UK chart-topper, ""Only Sixteen"" (1959), sold more copies in the UK than Sam Cooke's original version. Born a twin, in Newport, Isle of Wight the former Terence Perkins was employed as a milkman before becoming a professional singer, and was known to many as the 'Singing Milkman'. His manager was Bunny Lewis, who gave him the name Craig Douglas. Lewis saw the name outside a house in Scotland. Douglas said there were a"
"Chesney Hawkes Chesney Lee Hawkes (born 22 September 1971), is an English pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for one single ""The One and Only"", which topped the UK Singles Chart, and reached the Top 10 in the United States. Hawkes was born in Windsor, Berkshire. He was named after the singer and comedian Chesney Allen. His father is the singer Len 'Chip' Hawkes, formerly with the 1960s band The Tremeloes. His mother is former actress/game-show hostess Carol Dilworth, who appeared in an episode of the 1960s version of ""Randall and Hopkirk"" called ""For The Girl"
"only winks at Maggie before he dies. At review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film is certified ""fresh"" with an overall approval rating of 86% . Wes Anderson ranked it the fifth best British film. The Hit (1984 film) The Hit is a 1984 British road crime film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Laura del Sol and Tim Roth. The film was Stamp's first starring role in over a decade and Roth won an Evening Standard award as an apprentice hit man. The title music is provided by Roger Waters and Eric Clapton. Spanish flamenco guitarist"
"had relatively few hit singles. In the UK, his only chart singles were ""The Seduction"", a cover version of the theme from ""American Gigolo"" (1980) composed by Giorgio Moroder, and ""Biscaya"" from the album ""Biscaya"". His single ""Mornings at Seven"" became a familiar tune in Britain after the BBC used it as the theme music for an ice skating program. It was released on 7"" vinyl in 1968 and has been included on ""By Request"" and ""Eighty Not Out"". In the US, where ""The Seduction"" became a Top 40 hit, peaking at No. 28 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and"
"interview on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire Radio Alan Hammonds Alan Hammonds (aka Jordy) is a British singer/songwriter who was born in Horden on 4 November 1955. Alan Hammonds (guitar/vocals) formed British power pop band The Incredible Kidda Band, alongside his brother Graham ""Kidder"" Hammonds (percussion/backing vocals), in Nuneaton on 10 February 1976. The band experienced several name changes, beginning with the shortening of the name to The Kidda Band, before changing name completely to The Kicks on 7 November 1979. Hammonds then formed We're Only Human, a British power pop rock band in London on 1 July 1981. We're Only"
"Just Jack Jack Christoepher Allsopp, known by the stage name Just Jack, is an English musician from Camden Town, London. He first came to prominence with the release of his 2007 single ""Starz in Their Eyes"", which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart. He has also since been known for the songs ""Embers"", peaking at number 17, and ""The Day I Died"", which peaked at number 11, and the track ""Writer's Block"". Born in Camden, Allsopp grew up listening to dance music including breakdance, electro hip hop and house. An amateur breakdancer at eight, he started DJing at"
"Georgie Fame Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell; 26 June 1943) is an English rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a popular performer, often working with contemporaries such as Van Morrison and Bill Wyman. Fame is the only British pop star to have achieved three number one hits with his only Top 10 chart entries: ""Yeh, Yeh"" in 1964, ""Get Away"" in 1966 and ""The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde"" in 1967. Fame was born in Leigh, Lancashire. He took piano lessons from the age of seven and"
"this song never charted nationally, the song was covered and made a hit in 1966 by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. Long's 1966 single ""Function at the Junction"" was his first popular hit, reaching #42 on the national R&B charts. Other single releases included ""It's a Crying Shame"" (1964), ""Chantilly Lace"" (1967), and ""Night Fo' Last"" (1968). Long's biggest hit was ""Here Comes the Judge"" which in July 1968 reached number four on the R&B charts and number eight on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song was inspired by a comic act on ""Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In"" about a"
"of Home' hit the top spot on 1 December 1966 and so includes three weeks at No. 1 during 1967. The song has featured prominently on several of Reeves' albums which have been released through the years. Distant Drums (song) ""Distant Drums"" is a song which provided US singer Jim Reeves with his only UK No. 1 hit – albeit posthumously – in the United Kingdom in 1966, some two years after his death in a plane crash on 31 July 1964. The song remained in the UK Singles Chart for 45 weeks. The single also topped the US country"
"and only single released by British band The Go-Go's. The song was released in December 1964 and distributed through Oriole Records, but did not make the UK Singles Chart. The first single about the show to make the UK Singles Chart was ""Dr. Who"" by Mankind. The track was based on the ""Doctor Who"" theme music in a disco style and was Mankind's first and only charting single(follow up 'Chain Reaction'was a flop). Released by Pinnacle in 1978, the song peaked at Number 25 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1985, charity ensemble Who Cares? released a single protesting at"
"Hollies' Greatest Hollies' Greatest is the only number one album in the UK by British band The Hollies. It was released after Graham Nash's departure from the Hollies and was intended to include all of their British hit singles with Nash. Only 3 of the 14 songs on the album – ""Stay"", ""I Can't Let Go"" and ""Stop! Stop! Stop!"" had previously been released on U.K. albums. It spent seven weeks at the top of the chart in 1968. In total, it spent 27 weeks in the British LP chart, and is the most successful album by The Hollies. The"
"at number seven in the U.S., with first-week sales of 254,000 copies, and eventually became her third platinum certified album. The first single, ""Only U"", reached number thirteen on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and became her biggest hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number two. A second single, the ballad ""Don't Let Them"", garnered little chart success after Def Jam refused to fund a music video due to Irv Gotti's legal troubles during his money laundering trial. The single was released only in the U.S., where it failed to chart, and the UK, where it reached the lower end"
"soul singer Minnie Riperton, who was credited as Andrea Davis when she was recording for Chess Records, the label which released ""Here Comes The Judge"". Songs with the same name have been recorded by several artists; most notably, Shorty Long, whose 1968 Tamla Motown song ""Here Comes the Judge"" also entered the UK charts in July 1968 but only reached 30 as its highest position. Long's song is completely different from Markham's, however it was inspired by Markham's comic act involving a judge, which Markham performed on ""Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"". The Markham song was also covered, as a parody,"
"Here Comes Summer ""Here Comes Summer"" was a 1958 song, which was written and performed by Jerry Keller. The song was released on Kapp Records in the United States and London Records in the United Kingdom. In 1959 it spent 13 weeks on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, reaching No. 14, while spending one week at No. 1 on the UK's New Musical Express chart, and reaching No. 8 on Norway's VG-lista, and No. 4 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade. It was Keller's only hit either side of the Atlantic. A popular misconception is that this song quotes the line ""the"
"1980s, his British citizenship allowing him to perform in East as well as West Germany. He also made TV appearances in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Spain, and has continued to perform and release records in Germany. He married a Lufthansa stewardess in 1984 and lives near Cologne. Graham Bonney Graham Bonney (born Graham Arthur Ernest George Bradly, 2 June 1943) is a British pop singer and songwriter who has mainly lived and worked in Germany. Although he only had one UK chart hit, ""Super Girl"" in 1966, his success has continued in Europe. He was born in"
"the Harrison-produced single ""Ain't That Cute"", ""Doris Troy"" failed to chart in Britain or America on release. The album was reissued in 1992 and 2010 with bonus tracks such as Troy's version of the Beatles' hit song ""Get Back"". After having a one-off international hit with her song ""Just One Look"" in 1963, Doris Troy increasingly looked to Britain for continued success as a solo artist. Her brand of soul music was revered there throughout the 1960s and had produced hits for bands such as the Hollies and the Small Faces. Troy settled in London in 1969 and became a"
"from other countries have also had schlager hits in the UK. American singers Al Martino and Roy Orbison both entered the British charts with schlager hits ""Blue Spanish Eyes"" and ""Only the Lonely"" respectively. Billy Fury's ""Halfway to Paradise"" reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart. From the Netherlands and the UK, Dutch band Pussycat reached number 1 with the song ""Mississippi"". German and Austrian singers have also had hits in the UK; German singer Nicole charted in the UK with ""A Little Peace,"" peaking at number 1. That song also won Germany the Eurovision Song Contest in 1982."
"not charted in the United States, but reached No.12 in the UK. Lee had two Top Ten hits in the UK that were not released as singles in her native country: the first, ""Speak to Me Pretty"" peaked at No.3 in May 1962 and was her greatest hit in the UK by chart placing, swiftly followed by ""Here Comes That Feeling"", which reached No.5 in the summer of 1962. The latter was issued as the B-side to ""Everybody Loves Me But You"" in the United States (which peaked at No.6 on the Billboard Hot 100); however, ""Here Comes That Feeling"""
"Trevor Gordon Trevor Gordon Grunnill (5 May 1948 - 10 January 2013) was a British-Australian singer, songwriter and musician. He was a member of the late 1960s English group the Marbles, whose biggest hit was the UK No. 5 ""Only One Woman"". Gordon was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England as Trevor Gordon Grunnill He emigrated to Sydney, Australia with his family in the late 1950s. While still in high school, Gordon found work as a boy singer on the popular ""Johnny O'Keefe"" TV show leading to an exclusive contract with ABC, the Australian Television Network. This led to many live"
"Trevor Gordon Trevor Gordon Grunnill (5 May 1948 - 10 January 2013) was a British-Australian singer, songwriter and musician. He was a member of the late 1960s English group the Marbles, whose biggest hit was the UK No. 5 ""Only One Woman"". Gordon was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England as Trevor Gordon Grunnill He emigrated to Sydney, Australia with his family in the late 1950s. While still in high school, Gordon found work as a boy singer on the popular ""Johnny O'Keefe"" TV show leading to an exclusive contract with ABC, the Australian Television Network. This led to many live"
"Distant Drums (song) ""Distant Drums"" is a song which provided US singer Jim Reeves with his only UK No. 1 hit – albeit posthumously – in the United Kingdom in 1966, some two years after his death in a plane crash on 31 July 1964. The song remained in the UK Singles Chart for 45 weeks. The single also topped the US country chart for four weeks, becoming his most successful posthumous single. Although Roy Orbison had recorded the song in 1963, it is Reeves' version of ""Distant Drums"" which has endured over the years. During its time at the"
"UK than in his native America, including a cover of The Young Rascals' ""How Can I Be Sure"" and the double A-side single ""Daydreamer"" / ""The Puppy Song"" – two UK number ones which failed to chart in the States. In Britain, Cassidy the solo star remains best known for ""Daydreamer"", ""How Can I Be Sure"" and ""Could It Be Forever"" (UK number 2/US number 37), all released during his 1972–73 solo chart peak. Though he wanted to become a respected rock musician along the lines of Mick Jagger, his channel to stardom launched him into the ranks of teen"
"Alan Hammonds Alan Hammonds (aka Jordy) is a British singer/songwriter who was born in Horden on 4 November 1955. Alan Hammonds (guitar/vocals) formed British power pop band The Incredible Kidda Band, alongside his brother Graham ""Kidder"" Hammonds (percussion/backing vocals), in Nuneaton on 10 February 1976. The band experienced several name changes, beginning with the shortening of the name to The Kidda Band, before changing name completely to The Kicks on 7 November 1979. Hammonds then formed We're Only Human, a British power pop rock band in London on 1 July 1981. We're Only Human disbanded in 1989. 1. Kidda Band"
"It's Only Christmas ""It's Only Christmas"" is a song by Irish pop singer and Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating, released as the second single from his sixth studio album, ""Winter Songs"", exclusively in Australia and New Zealand. The version of the song featured on the British version of ""Winter Songs"" features vocals from Hayley Westenra, however, the version of the song featured on the Australian version of the album replaces her vocals with those of Kate Ceberano, and thus, whose vocals appear on the single. Although not an international hit like his previous singles, Keating's version of the song failed to"
"Kim Wilde Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith; 18 November 1960) is an English pop singer, author, DJ and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with her debut single ""Kids in America"", which reached number two in the UK. In 1983, she received the Brit Award for Best British Female solo artist. In 1986, she had a UK number two hit with her version of the Supremes' song ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"", which also went on to be a major US hit, topping the charts there in 1987. Between 1981 and 1996, she had 25 singles"
"We're Only Human (band) We're Only Human (previously The Incredible Kidda Band and The Kicks) were a British powerpop and rock band, formed in London on 1 July 1981, and composed of Alan Hammonds (guitar and vocals), John Rollason (guitar and backing vocals), Keith Taylor (bass) and Mark ""Tarky"" Bates (drums and backing vocals). The band were helped in the recording studio by producer Graham ""Kidder"" Hammonds (percussion and backing vocals). Having played regularly at The Bridgehouse in Canning Town, the band joined Terry Murphy's own Vinyl Cuts record label, in order to release their debut single, ""Hold Your Head"
"A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window is the debut studio album by the English rock band Cardiacs, released in 1988. Arguably the band's best known album, it contains their only hit single, ""Is This the Life?"". It was recorded at The Workhouse studios in London and produced by Cardiacs leader Tim Smith. The single from the album, ""Is This the Life?"", saw brief chart success due to exposure on mainstream radio, and garnered the attention of a wider audience when it entered the Independent"
"Americans, including Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, and Little Richard. The only original composition here is ""Keep Off That Friend of Mine"", written by guitarist Tony Hicks and drummer Bobby Elliott. ""Just One Look"" charted again at number 44 in 1967 when it was re-released from ""The Hollies' Greatest Hits"" album. Here I Go Again (album) Here I Go Again is the debut studio album by British pop band the Hollies. Imperial Records released the album in June 1964 in the United States to capitalize on the moderate success of the singles ""Here I Go Again"" (No. 107) and ""Just One"
"along with a cover of the Beatles' ""Here Comes The Sun"". The album only produced one hit, ""Strange & Funny"", the pair's last chart entry in the US, and they left Elektra to record for the Manhattan label. Their only release for the label, 1986's """"Starbright,"""" an ill-fated stab at the charts with little of their past sound, was barely released in the U.S., but produced a single, ""Soul Love/Soul Man"" that reached no. 58 in the U.K. Always popular in England, they headlined at the Royal Albert Hall in 1987. Their success in the UK and other parts of"
"Buddy's Song (album) Buddy's Song is the debut album by English singer and actor Chesney Hawkes, released in 1991. It is the soundtrack to the film of the same name and includes the UK number one single ""The One and Only"". In the United States, the album was released as The One and Only. Every song on the British release of the album was used in the film except ""A Crazy World like This"". It was to be Hawkes' only album to make the Top 40, peaking at number 18 in the UK Albums Chart. Three singles from the album"