ROGER WHITTAKER 1ST RECORD 1961 BANGOR UNIVERSITY 7" FLEXI DISC FOLK MUSIC WALES
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Roger Whittaker Rag Record
Flexi disc published by Bangor University in aid of charity. Featuring Roger Whittaker's first ever appearance on disc, under the pseudonym "Hank" on Track 1, side A.
U.C.N.W. BANGOR RAG RECORD
11 MINUTES 33 1/3
POP POETRY JAZZ CHOPIN
2'
RELEASED BY ECHINS RAG MAG 1961
BANGOR UNIVERSITY. Nth. WALES.
Flexi disc in paper sleeve printed in red. Age-related discolouration & creasing to sleeve with small stain to bottom. Disc fine except for shallow indentation, though plays fine.
Side A:
1. SANTO ANNO
Hank and the Mellowmen, featuring Gerald P. Garrigan (Guitar)
E. Lester Owen (Bass) and Len Wilcock (Drums)
2. MOSOLOGY
The Mo Hope Three
Side 2:
1. John F. Danby, M.A. (Cantab.)
reads poems by Hardy and Auden
2.PRELUDE-CHOPIN. Played by Paul Hazel.
3. TALKING COLLEGE BLUES. Martin Wenham
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Roger Whittaker
The son of immigrants from Staffordshire, England, Whittaker was born in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 22, 1936. His father, Edward Whittaker, owned a grocery store, for which his mother, Viola Whittaker, kept the books; she later worked as a teacher. He took up the guitar at the age of seven and learned to sing songs in Swahili, but did not think of music as a career until much later. In 1956, he entered the University of Cape Town, South Africa as a medical student, but flunked out in his second year and returned to Nairobi, where he taught primary school and performed in nightclubs.
In September 1959, he moved to the U.K. and began attending Bangor University in Wales, where he studied science with the intention of furthering his teaching career. But he continued to sing in clubs, and in the early '60s, a few of his recordings were issued on flexi-discs included with a campus publication, the Bangor University Rag, and credited to Hank & the Mellomen, to raise money for charity. This brought him to the attention of Fontana Records, which signed him to a contract and released his first professional single, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," credited to Rog Whittaker, in 1962.
His second single was a cover of American country singer Jimmy Dean's "Steel Men." It gave him his first chart entry near the bottom of the New Musical Express Top 30 in June 1962, just as he was passing his final exams. So, instead of going on for his PhD, he acquired a manager and turned to singing full-time, soon gaining a residency on This and That, a television show in Ulster, Northern Ireland. The next few years he struggled to make a living on the British cabaret circuit, but in the spring of 1967 he won a prize at the Knokke Song Festival in Belgium, leading to recordings of his composition "The Mexican Whistler" and his version of "If I Were a Rich Man" from the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Both became hits in Europe, breaking him as a headlining concert attraction on the continent.
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