AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS MEGA-RARE 1959 DECCA 78 FROM "ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINK" UNDER HIS FIRST RECORDING NAME OF GERRY DORSEY 

" CRAZY BELLS "

b/w  " MISTER MUSIC MAN "

 

Arnold Dorsey was born in , India in 1936,as one of ten children to NCO Mervyn Dorsey and his wife Olive. His mother was of German descent. Dorsey's family moved to , England, when he was ten. He soon showed an interest in music and began learning the . By the early 1950s he was playing saxophone in nightclubs, but he is believed not to have tried singing until he was seventeen, when friends coaxed him into entering a pub contest. His impression of prompted friends to begin calling him "Gerry Dorsey", a name he worked under for almost a decade.

Though Dorsey's music career was interrupted by in the British Army during the mid-1950s, he got his first chance to record in 1958 with after his discharge. His first singles (THIS WAS HIS SECOND) were not hits, but Dorsey would record for the same company almost a decade later with very different results. Dorsey continued working the nightclubs until 1961, when he was stricken with . He regained his health and returned to nightclub work, but with little success.

In 1965 Dorsey teamed up with his former roommate in the Bayswater area of London , who had become a music impresario and the manager of . Aware that Dorsey had been struggling for several years to become successful in the music industry, Mills suggested a name-change to the more arresting Engelbert Humperdinck, borrowed from the German such as . Mills also arranged a new deal for him with Decca Records. Dorsey has been performing under this name ever since, although in Germany he only uses Engelbert as his stage name because the composer's family has disallowed his use of the full name.

Humperdinck enjoyed first real success during July 1966 in Belgium, where he and four others represented England in the annual song contest. In October of the same year, he was on stage in . Humperdinck also made a mark on the Belgian charts with "Dommage, Dommage" and an early music video was filmed, with him in the harbour of .

In the mid-1960s Humperdinck visited famed German songwriter at his house in Spain and was offered arrangements of three songs - "", "" and "". He returned to England where he recorded all three songs. Realizing the potential of "Strangers in the Night" he asked manager Gordon Mills if it could be released as a single, but was refused since the song had already been requested by .

In early 1967 the changes paid off when Humperdinck's version of "", recorded in a smooth ballad style with a full chorus joining him on the third refrain, made the top ten on both sides of the Atlantic and number one in Britain, keeping ' adventurous ""/"" from the top slot in the UK. Another groundbreaking video showed Engelbert tied up with a lasso. "Release Me" spent 56 weeks in the Top 50 in a single chart run. "Release Me" was believed to have sold 85,000 copies a day at the height of its popularity, and for years, it was the best known of his songs.

 

Disc details

UK DECCA F 11108    10" 78rpm SHELLAC

CONDITION - EX+/M-

 

 

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