Concerto For Lovers 1964 Russ Conway

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 09 Jan 2003

Russ Conway b. Second September
Nineteen Twenty-Seven.
Joined Royal Navy as teenager
during WW II, and won a D.S.M.
Decided to stay in services
after war, and continued
developing his naval career
until mid-fifties.

He decided to make piano
playing his profession,
and found employment
in various London night-clubs,
and as a rehearsal pianist
for the stars.
Subsequently became a pianist
for top artists like Dennis Lotis,
Gracie Fields and Joan Regan.
This brought him into contact
with record companies:
Signed with E.M.I. in
Nineteen Fifty-Seven.

Appeared on TV with
The Billy Cotton Band Show.

Big time stardom came for
Russ in Nineteen Fifty-Nine
when five of his own compositions
made the Top Ten the first
two of the year going all the way
to No I. The earlier of those two,
"Side Saddle," stayed at the top
spot for four weeks, and Russ
was the topselling UK artist
that year.

He starred at the London Palladium
several times.

He recorded a vast number of albums
which always contained some slower
tracks which demonstrated his
true musical talents.

In the late sixties he suffered a
nervous breakdown and a mild stroke,
which prevented him from performing.
By the late Seventies, however,
he was back at his piano performing
to his legions of loyal fans both
at home and abroad.

His health began to fail in the late
nineties, but he still performed a
final concert during the spring of
Two Thousand in his home town of
Eastbourne, Sussex. He was suffering
from cancer at that time,
and died on Sixteenthth November
Two Thousand.

Soft karaoke
Words
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piano t clef
piano b clef
pizz str
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Concerto For Lovers 1964 Russ Conway
by Trevor H. Stanford aka Russ Conway
copyright 1964 by Trelion Music Co. Ltd.
sequenced for piano and strings
by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Wednesday 09 January 2003 at 00.01
in association with Doug Grierson
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