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  • | label = [[Decca Records|Decca]] ...ds|Philips Records]], he did not sing on any of the Goons' [[Decca Records|Decca]] recordings of the 1950s, including this song, only speaking his words.<re
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  • | label = [[Decca Records|Decca]] | caption = 1975 reissue in Decca's ''The World of..'' series
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  • ...evious number one singles were by American artists),<ref name="British Hit Singles">{{cite book | title= British Hit Singles
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  • ...David song)|The Story of My Life]]" (No. 20, 1958).<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book | title= British Hit Singles & Albums
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  • ===Singles=== ...ankie and Johnny (song)|Frankie and Johnny]]" b/w "I'm Down in the Dumps" (Decca 45-F 10457) (1952)
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  • ...me came from record producer [[Wally Ridley]], who also produced Bygraves' records during the 1950s.<ref name=leigh/> ...s became a successful recording artist with seven top ten hits on the [[UK Singles Chart]] between 1952 and 1960.<ref name="betts"/> Many were [[novelty songs
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  • ...le:George Martin obit.webp|thumb|right|[[George Martin]] moved into comedy records as an "act of desperation"<ref name="bestofsellers">{{cite web |title=Georg ...m "Mate" Cobblers|Willium "Mate" Cobblers]], reached number 17 on the [[UK Singles Chart]].<ref name="tunein"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Sellers |url=https
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  • ...ake the humour of Pete and Dud further on [[gramophone record|long-playing records]] as [[Derek and Clive]]. [[Chris Blackwell]] circulated [[Bootleg recordin ===UK chart singles===
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  • ...ng|publishers]], leading the Goons to leave Parlophone for [[Decca Records|Decca]].<ref name="tunein"/><ref name="womack">{{cite book |last1=Womack |first1= ...llium "Mate" Cobblers]]. It reached number 17 on the [[UK Singles Chart|UK Singles Chart]].<ref name="tunein"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Sellers |url=https
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  • ...cess of the "Grandad" record, Dunn released several other [[single (music)|singles]], but never hit the charts again. ===Singles===
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  • ...d with his original speciality, [[ventriloquism]]. He also had several hit singles primarily as a ballad singer in the 1960s, and occasionally appeared in dra ...mances, and during the 1960s he earned a place in ''[[The Guinness Book of Records]]'' for the world's longest ever joke-telling session: 1,500 jokes in three
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  • * Label: [[Philips Records|Philips]] * Label: [[Decca Records|Decca]]
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  • ...Guard: Obit" /> In 1958 Terry-Thomas released the first of two solo comedy records, ''Strictly T-T''; the same year he also appeared as [[Bertie Wooster]] in | [[London Records|London]] LL3292
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  • ====Singles==== ...s Deputising for the Bull" (1952), [[Columbia Graphophone Company|Columbia Records]], written by [[Eric Sykes]], acc. by Billy Ternent and His Orchestra<ref>{
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  • | label = {{hlist|[[EMI|EMI]]|[[Parlophone|Parlophone]]|[[Apple Records|Apple]]}} ...nard Cribbins]], among others. In his career he produced 30 number-one hit singles in the United Kingdom and 23 number-one hits in the United States. He also
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  • ...("[[The Blood Donor]]" and "[[The Radio Ham]]") and two by [[Decca Records|Decca]] on the 1965 album ''It's Hancock'' ("[[The Missing Page]]" and "[[The Reu BBC Records released an LP titled ''[[Hancock]]'' featuring the original TV soundtracks
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  • ...rd-upon-Avon]], of a prominent Devonshire family traced back to 1440),<ref>Records and Pedigree of the Wreford Family, George Wreford, second edition, 1909</r ...s as [[A-side and B-side|B-sides]] to the [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]] 12-inch singles "Number One Song in Heaven" and "Tryouts for the Human Race". The main song
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  • During October, [[Decca Records|Decca]] released their first two singles with the Goons combined on an EP entitled The Goons (DFE 6396) and with a p On Monday 14 October, the Goons recorded a topical new single for Decca; entitled ''A Russian Love Song'', this was inspired by the launch of Sputn
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  • ...mby found the imitation difficult and had to learn his father's songs from records, and the rest of his act and jokes from his mother.<ref name="Skinner docu" ...}} That changed in 1932, when Formby signed a three-year deal with [[Decca Records]]. One of the songs he recorded in July was "Chinese Laundry Blues", tellin
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  • ...cious Me]]", with Sellers and Loren, which reached number four in the [[UK Singles Chart]] in November 1960.<ref name="PS&SL" /> A follow-up single by the duo [[Category:United Artists Records artists]]
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