Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Guiness British Hit Singles by Karen O'Brien Karen Boddington and Mark Williams. Karen Boddington and Mark Williams formed the Australian vocal duet that sang the original theme tune for the TV soap Home and Away. Mark Williams has performed with several other groups. Charts. The theme tune is entitled "Home and Away", and it was released on the First Night label. It entered the UK Singles Chart on 2 September 1989, and remained in the charts for only one week, reaching position 79. [1] Issue. It was used as the theme tune to the show from 1988 until 1995. There have been 7 different full versions of the theme song used, including 2 by The Robertson Brothers. References. Rice, Tim; Jonathan Rice & Paul Gambaccini (1990), Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums , Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness World Records and Guinness Publishing, ISBN 0-85112-398-8 ( Note: misprinted as "Baddington") Dieser Artikel basiert auf dem Artikel Karen Boddington and Mark Williams aus der freien Enzyklopädie Wikipedia und steht unter der GNU- Lizenz für freie Dokumentation. In der Wikipedia ist eine Liste der Autoren verfügbar. Johnny and Mary. "Johnny and Mary" is a song written by Robert Palmer and was recorded in 1980 at Compass Point Studios, New Providence, in the Bahamas. The song was featured on Palmer's album Clues (1980). "Johnny and Mary" only went to #44 on the UK Singles Chart [1] , but did reach #18 on Billboard's Club Play Singles chart.[1] "Johnny and Mary" was used as the signature tune in advertisements promoting Renault cars throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Early adverts used Palmer's original version, while a range of special recordings in different styles were produced during the 1990s; most famously Martin Taylor's acoustic interpretation which he released on his album Spirit of Django . Taylor recorded alternate versions for Renault; the last being in 1998 for the launch of the all-new Renault Clio. Allmusic suggests that "Johnny and Mary" was the inspiration for Rod Stewart's later hit "Young Turks". Musical artists similar to or like Malcolm Roberts (singer) English traditional pop music singer and songwriter who is best known for his recording of the Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune "Edelweiss" (1967) which reached No.2 on the UK Singles Chart (staying on the chart for 17 weeks). Along with a successful recording career in the 1960s, Hill hosted several hit TV shows during the seventies and eighties, including They Sold a Million (BBC), Musical Time Machine (BBC) and his own chat show Gas Street (ITV). Wikipedia. English vocal trio, created in 1964, who enjoyed two Top 10 hit singles in the UK Singles Chart in 1965. Characterised by rich, three-part vocal harmonies. Wikipedia. English pop band, who had a number six hit single in the UK Singles Chart with "I Am the Beat" in 1981. From Ely, Cambridgeshire and originally named The Kreed, the band changed their name to The Look when they moved to London. Wikipedia. Miki & Griff were a British country music duo, who had several hit singles on the UK Singles Chart in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Barbara Macdonald Griffith ; Griff was born Emyr Morus Griffith (9 May 1923–24 September 1995). Wikipedia. Johnny and Mary. Johnny and Mary is a song of songwriter and performer British Robert Palmer appeared in single in 1980 with Island Records 1 . Twelfth single of the artist and first part of the album Clues , released the same year, Johnny and Mary meets a moderate reception of the public in the United Kingdom and is not ranked at Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. However, it is in Europe that the title works best in the charts , reaching the top 10 of some countries, includingFrance , where the single meets a huge commercial success in terms of sales – it will be certified gold – and will be used thereafter as a theme for Renault commercials . The lyrics. Johnny and Mary refers to the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy . Reception. He reached the fifth place in the charts in Switzerland , the tenth in Austria and Canada 5 and the twelfth in New Zealand . Reversals. Takeover by the German group of indietronica The Notwist Takeover by alternative rock band Placebo Takeover by the German group of indie Knabenkraut Resumed by Norwegian composer Todd Terje and singer Bryan Ferry in 2014 . Use in other media. Johnny and Mary was used as theme music in commercials promoting cars Renault throughout 1980 and 1990 6 . The first commercials used the original version of Palmer, while a range of special recordings in different styles were produced in the 1990s , the most famous being the acoustic rendition of Martin Taylor , which was published on his album Spirit of Django . Taylor has recorded alternative versions for Renault, the latest being in 1998 for the launch of the all-new Renault Clio . Guiness British Hit Singles by Karen O'Brien. Mike McCartney (born Peter Michael McCartney; 7 January 1944), known professionally as Mike McGear, is a British performing artist and rock photographer and the younger brother of Paul McCartney. He attended the Liverpool Institute two years behind his brother. Main article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_%26_Mary_McCartney. Michael and his brother Paul (born 18 June 1942) were both born in the Walton General Hospital in Liverpool, where their mother, Mary McCartney, had previously worked as a nursing sister in charge of the maternity ward. Michael was not enrolled in a Catholic school as his father, Jim McCartney, believed that they leaned too much towards religion instead of education. At age 17, McCartney started his first job at 'Jackson's the Tailors' in Ranelagh Street, Liverpool. The year after he took an apprenticeship at 'Andre Bernard', a hairdresser for ladies in the same street. At the time the Beatles became successful, Mike McCartney was working as an apprentice hairdresser. However, he was also a member of the Liverpool comedy-poetry-music group The Scaffold, which included Roger McGough and John Gorman and had formed in 1962 (the year of The Beatles' first hit). McCartney decided to use a stage name, so as not to capitalize on his family connections to the Fab Four. After first dubbing himself "Mike Blank", he settled on "Mike McGear", using the Liverpudlian equivalent of "Fab". The band was subsequently signed to Parlophone. The Scaffold recorded a number of UK hit singles between 1966 and 1974, the most successful being the 1968 Christmas number one single, "Lily the Pink". McCartney composed the band's next biggest hit, 1967's "Thank U Very Much". In 1968, he and McGough released a "duo" album (McGough & McGear) that included the usual Scaffold mix of lyrics, poems, and comedy. The Scaffold ended up hosting a TV program, which limited the musical portion of their career, and they were dropped by Parlophone. McCartney then signed to Island Records and released a solo musical album entitled Woman in 1972, sample (help·info) which again included many tracks co-written with McGough, and The Scaffold subsequently released their own album on the label, Fresh Liver. The Scaffold then added several other members and released two albums on Island in 1973 as Grimms (an acronym for Gorman-Roberts-Innes- McGear-McGough-Stanshall). However, McCartney quit Grimms after the second album due to tension between himself and one of the poets added to the group. McCartney then signed to Warner Bros. Records and in 1974 released his second "serious" musical album, McGear, in which he collaborated with his brother Paul and Paul's band Wings. Although four singles were released from these sessions, only "Leave It" enjoyed any moderate chart success (#36 UK). However, also recorded during McCartney's sessions with Wings was a Scaffold "reunion" song, "Liverpool Lou", which became The Scaffold's last top-ten hit. This led to the group's re-formation in 1974, and they recorded and performed together through 1977. Individually, McCartney released a few more singles. His final release, while still using the name Mike McGear, was the 1981 release, "No Lar Di Dar (Is Lady Di)." This was a satirical tribute to Lady Diana Spencer, released at the time of her wedding to Prince Charles. In the 1980s, after retiring from music, Mike McCartney decided to end his use of the "McGear" pseudonym and revert to use of his family name. McCartney was a photographer during his entire musical career, and has continued with photography since then. Beatles' manager Brian Epstein nicknamed him "Flash Harry" in the early 1960s because he was always taking pictures with a flash gun. He has published books of pictures that he took of The Beatles backstage and on tour, and he recently brought out a limited edition book of photos he took spontaneously backstage at Live8. In 2005, McCartney premiered and exhibited a collection of photographs that he had taken in the 1960s, called "Mike McCartney's Liverpool Life", both in Liverpool and other venues, such as The Provincial Museum of Alberta. In addition, an exhibition book was published of the collection. He also took the cover photograph for Paul McCartney's 2005 solo album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. McCartney married (in 1968) and later divorced Angela Fishwick. He later married Rowena Horne. McCartney has six children between his marriages, three from each, including Josh McCartney, who was the drummer in the band The Famous Last Words (formerly known as Trilby). "Woman" / "Kill" (Island WIP 6131) April 1972, "Leave It" / "Sweet Baby" (Warner Bros K 16446) September