Who is this English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s that contributed to the playlist of Magic in the Morning?
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Magic (radio network) Magic is a New Zealand oldies radio network owned by MediaWorks New Zealand. The network is a direct competitor to New Zealand Media and Entertainment's Coast network, targeting New Zealand's growing population of baby boomers with a line-up of veteran broadcasters. Its breakfast show, Magic in the Morning, is hosted by high-profile television producer, game show host, sports commentator and radio announcer Mark Leishman. Its playlist, drawn from the 1950s to 1970s, includes music from Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Dusty Springfield and Rod Stewart.
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Dusty Springfield Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), better known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual mezzo-soprano sound, she was an important blue-eyed soul singer and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and sixteen on the UK Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She is a member of the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, as well as her flamboyant performances made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties.
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Joan Regan Joan Regan (born Joan Bethel or Siobhan Bethel; 19 January 1928 – 12 September 2013) was an English traditional pop music singer, popular during the 1950s and early 1960s.
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Andrew Ridgeley Andrew John Ridgeley (born 26 January 1963) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his work in the 1980s as a member of the musical duo Wham!.
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Chick Henderson (singer) Chick Henderson (22 November 1912 – 24 June 1944) was an English singer who achieved popularity and acclaim as a prolific recording artist and performer of the British dance band era in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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Wonderful Wonderful (Johnny Mathis album) Wonderful Wonderful is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in the summer of 1957 on the Columbia Records label but does not include his hit song of the same name or any of his songs that were released as singles that year. The liner notes on the back of the original album cover proclaim that "he stamps as his very own such familiar rhythm tunes as 'Too Close for Comfort' and 'That Old Black Magic', injects new life in well-known ballads such as 'All Through the Night', gives new hearings to several fine standards that have been neglected in recent years, and even introduces a brand new ballad (Alex Fogarty's 'Will I Find My Love Today?')."
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British pop music British pop music is popular music, produced commercially in the United Kingdom. It emerged in the mid-to late 1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. Like American pop music it has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, as well as that of the Singles Chart usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs. While these basic elements of the genre have remained fairly constant, pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, particularly borrowing from the development of rock music, and utilising key technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes. From the British Invasion of the 1960s, led by The Beatles, British pop music has alternated between acts and genres with national appeal and those with international success that have had a considerable impact on the development of the wider genre and on popular music in general.
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Morning of My Life "Morning of My Life" (originally known as "In the Morning") is a song written by Barry Gibb in 1965 and later recorded by the Bee Gees and several other artists. It was recorded in 1966 during sessions for the album "Spicks and Specks", and later was released as the opening track on the compilation "Inception / Nostalgia" in 1970. The first recording of the song to be released by any artist was by Ronnie Burns, first as a B-side to his "Exit, Stage Right" single in June 1967 and a month later on his "Ronnie" LP.
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Adrian Baker Adrian Baker (born 18 January 1951, London) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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Garry Mills Garry Mills (also Gary Mills) (born 13 October 1941 in West Wickham, Kent, England), was a British pop singer.
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Paul Ryan (singer) Paul Ryan (24 October 1948 – 29 November 1992) was an English singer, songwriter and record producer.
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Martin Fry Martin David Fry (born 9 March 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.
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Ruby Murray Ruby Florence Murray (29 March 1935 – 17 December 1996) was one of the most popular singers in the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1950s. In 1955 she secured seven Top 10 UK hit singles.
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Giorgio Moroder Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (] ; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer. Moroder is frequently credited with pioneering Italo disco and electronic dance music.
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Paul Curtis (musician) Paul Michael Curtis (born 1950) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer from London, who holds the record for the highest number of songs to make the finals of the "" contest, the BBC's annual competition to choose the UK's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, competing with 22 separate songs from 1975 to 1992.
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Beryl Marsden Beryl Marsden (born 10 June 1947) is a British R&B and pop singer, who first came to notice on the Liverpool club scene of the early 1960s. She recorded a number of "powerful and soulful", but unsuccessful, records, and has been described as "undeservedly neglected".
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Shirley Bassey Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known for both her powerful operatic voice and for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films "Goldfinger" (1964), "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971), and "Moonraker" (1979).
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Mike Chapman Michael Donald "Mike" Chapman (born 13 April 1947) is an Australian record producer and songwriter who was a major force in the British pop music industry in the 1970s. He created a string of hit singles for artists including The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokie, Mud and Racey with business partner Nicky Chinn, creating a formularised sound that became identified with the "Chinnichap" brand. He later produced breakthrough albums for Blondie and The Knack.
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Magic Bus (song) "Magic Bus" is a song written by Pete Townshend during the time that "My Generation" was being recorded in 1965. However, it was not recorded by The Who until 1968 and released in the UK on 18 September 1968. It has become one of the band's most popular songs and has been a concert staple, although when released, the record only reached number 26 in the United Kingdom and number 25 in the United States.
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Guy Fletcher (songwriter) Mervyn Guy Fletcher OBE (born 1944) is an English songwriter who, in partnership with Doug Flett, wrote several hits for other artists. As a singer, he had a small hit in the Netherlands and other European countries with the song, "Mary in the Morning" (1971).
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Invisible Sun "Invisible Sun" is a song by rock group The Police, released as a single in September 1981. It was the first single to be released in the United Kingdom from the album "Ghost in the Machine" and it reached number 2 in the charts. In most other territories, "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" was chosen as the lead single from the LP.
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Barry Biggs Barry Biggs (born 1947, although some accounts list 1953; St. Andrew, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer, best known in the UK for his cover of the Blue Magic song, "Sideshow", which got to number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1977.