Marty Wilde

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Marty Wilde

Marty Wilde , actually Reginald Leonard Smith , MBE (born April 15, 1939 in London , England ) is a British rock 'n' roll singer who was best known for cover versions of American hits in the second half of the 1950s was about Endless Sleep (original by Jody Reynolds ), Donna (of Ritchie Valens ), A teenager In Love (of Dion and the Belmonts ) and Sea of Love (of Phil Phillips ). Between 1958 and 1961, six of his singles made it into the UK top 10.

Live and act

Marty Wilde was one of the stars in music manager Larry Parnes' stable . In the early 1960s his popularity as a singer declined, but he still achieved significant sales with Rubber Ball (originally by Bobby Vee ) and Frankie Laines Jezebel . For this, Wilde wrote a number of hits for other performers, e.g. B. Jesamine for The Casuals , I'm A Tiger for Lulu and Ice In The Sun for Status Quo .

In the 1980s he wrote and produced the hits of his daughter Kim Wilde with his son Ricky Wilde .

In the course of the New Year Honors 2017, Wilde was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire by the British Queen .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
UK UK
2007 Born to rock and roll UK19th
silver
silver

(9 weeks)UK
2019 Dreamboats And Petticoats Presents:
The Very Best Of Marty Wilde
UK7 (5 weeks)
UK

More albums

  • 1959: Wilde About Marty
  • 1960: Marty Wilde - Showcase
  • 1960: Versatile Mr. Wilde
  • 1961: Bye Bye Birdie
  • 1968: Dr. Dolittle
  • 1969: Diversions
  • 1970: Rock 'n' Roll
  • 1974: Good Rockin 'Then and Now
  • 1981: The Wildcat Rocker
  • 1994: Solid Gold
  • 2003: Wilde About Marty / Showcase

Singles

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
UK UK US US
1958 Endless sleep UK4 (14 weeks)
UK
-
1959 donna UK3 (18 weeks)
UK
-
A teenager in love UK2 (17 weeks)
UK
-
Sea of ​​Love UK3 (12 weeks)
UK
-
Bad boy UK7 (8 weeks)
UK
US45 (8 weeks)
US
1960 Johnny Rocco UK30 (4 weeks)
UK
-
The fight UK47 (1 week)
UK
-
Little girl UK16 (9 weeks)
UK
-
1961 Rubber ball UK9 (9 weeks)
UK
-
Hide and Seek UK47 (2 weeks)
UK
-
Tomorrow's clown UK33 (5 weeks)
UK
-
1962 Jezebel UK19 (11 weeks)
UK
-
Every Since You Said Goodbye UK31 (7 weeks)
UK
-

More singles

  • 1957: Honeycomb
  • 1958: No One Knows / Fire of Love
  • 1959: All American Boy
  • 1959: Blue Moon of Kentucky
  • 1961: Sea of ​​Heartbreak
  • 1968: By the Time I Get to Phoenix
  • 1968: Abergavenny
  • 1969: Jesamine
  • 1971: The Busker
  • 1975: Come Back & Love Me

Guest Posts

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
UK UK
1991 Sea of ​​Love UK100 (1 week)
UK
with Phil Phillips and the Twilights

Filmography

  • 1959: Jet Storm
  • 1961: The Hellions
  • 1963: What a Crazy World
  • 1974: Stardust

literature

  • Frank Laufenberg & Ingrid Hake: Rock and Pop Lexicon. Volume 2. Econ, Düsseldorf / Vienna 1994, pp. 1634f.

swell

  1. Stephen Nugent, Pete Fowler & Annie Fowler: The Log Of American / British Top 20 Hits. In: Charlie Gillett & Simon Frith (Eds.): Rock File 4. Panther Books, London 1976, pp. 360f
  2. New Year Honors 2017: Anna Wintour, Ken Dodd and Ray Davies on list , BBC December 30, 2016, accessed January 13, 2017
  3. a b c Chart sources: UK US
  4. Music Sales Awards: UK

Web links

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