Nick Straker
Nick Straker (* 1957 as Nicholas Charles Bailey ) is an English pop musician .
Music biography
Nicholas Bailey played from 1969 initially with relatively unknown bands such as Stonehenge, Batumbi and Limmie Funk Limited.
He had his biggest hit in 1979 with the Nick Straker Band, to which Tony Mansfield (* 1955 ), Pete Hammond and Phil Towner (* 1955 ) also belonged. The self-written A Walk in the Park first entered the charts in Germany , then into the hit parades of Austria and Switzerland . In these countries the song became a top 10 hit. In the summer of 1980 it was placed in the top 20 of the UK charts .
The singles Don't Come Back and Leaving on the Midnight Train made it onto the German charts in 1980, but the Nick Straker Band was unable to repeat the success of A Walk in the Park . From 1981 the group had success in the US dance charts. A Little Bit of Jazz conquered number 1 on the Hot Dance Music / Club Play charts, while Straight Ahead was number 12 in 1983.
Versions of A Walk in the Park
In 1987, Stock Aitken Waterman produced a new version of A Walk in the Park that missed a chart position. While Tony Mansfield was successful as a music producer (among others for A-ha and Captain Sensible ), Bailey appeared in the 1980s as a songwriter for example. B. for Siedah Garrett and Taylor Dayne in appearance.
In late 2005, A Walk in the Park from the Conways gecovert who thus achieved in Germany Place 60th At the end of 2011, the German dance band Scooter tried their version under the title David Doesn't Eat .
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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 AT
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 CH
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 UK
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| 1980 | Future's Above My Head |
DE2 (35 weeks) DE |
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Producers: Jeremy Paul, Nick Bailey, Pete Hammond
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gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More albums
- 1980: A Walk in the Park
- 1980: A Little Bit of Jazz (DE) / The Nick Straker Band (US)
- 1983: The Nick Straker Band
- 1983: Nick Straker (solo album)
Compilations
- 1982: Smash Singles
- 1993: The Best of Nick Straker - A Walk in the Park
- 1994: Collection
- 1996: The Very Best Of
- 2007: Nick Straker Band
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
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DE
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AT
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CH
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UK
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| 1979 | A Walk in the Park Future’s Above My Head |
DE3 (36 weeks) DE |
AT7 (16 weeks) AT |
CH5 (12 weeks) CH |
UK20 (12 weeks) UK |
UK chart entry only in August 1980
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| 1980 | Don't Come Back Future’s Above My Head |
DE63 (2 weeks) DE |
- | - | - | |
| Leaving on the Midnight Train A Walk in the Park |
DE73 (2 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK61 (3 weeks) UK |
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| 1997 | A Walk in the Park '97 The Very Best Of |
- | - | - |
UK82 (2 weeks) UK |
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| 2005 | A walk in the park |
DE60 (9 weeks) DE |
- | - | - |
Conways feat. The Nick Straker Band
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More singles
- 1979: The Last Goodbye
- 1980: A Little Bit of Jazz
- 1981: Like Dust
- 1981: Dummy Dancing
- 1982: Way of Life
- 1982: Straight Ahead
- 1983: You Know I Like It
- 1983: Against the Wall
- 1984: Must You Dance
- 1984: Turn Me Down
- 2006: He's Got No Nothing
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Web links
- Sound carrier by Nick Straker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nick Straker at Allmusic (English)
- Nick Straker Band at Allmusic (English)
- Nick Straker at Discogs (English)
- Nick Straker Band at Discogs (English)
- Biography at Taurus Press
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Straker, Nick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bailey, Nicholas Charles (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British pop musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |