Ronnie Hilton

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
I still believe
  UK 3 12/02/1954 (14 weeks)
Veni Vidi Vici
  UK 12 December 16, 1954 (8 weeks)
A blossom fur
  UK 10 03/17/1955 (5 weeks)
Stars Shine in Your Eyes
  UK 13 09/01/1955 (7 weeks)
The Yellow Rose of Texas
  UK 15th 11/17/1955 (2 weeks)
Young and Foolish
  UK 17th 02/16/1956 (3 weeks)
No other love
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/26/1956 (14 weeks)
Who are we?
  UK 6th 07/05/1956 (12 weeks)
A woman in love
  UK 30th 09/27/1956 (1 week)
Two different worlds
  UK 13 11/15/1956 (13 weeks)
Around the world
  UK 4th 05/30/1957 (18 weeks)
Wonderful! Wonderful!
  UK 27 08/08/1957 (2 weeks)
Magic moments
  UK 22nd 02/27/1958 (2 weeks)
I May Never Pass This Way Again
  UK 27 04/24/1958 (3 weeks)
The World Outside
  UK 18th January 15, 1959 (6 weeks)
The Wonder of You
  UK 22nd 08/27/1959 (3 weeks)
Don't Let the Rain Come Down
  UK 21st May 27, 1964 (10 weeks)
A windmill in Old Amsterdam
  UK 23 02/17/1965 (13 weeks)

Ronnie Hilton (born January 26, 1926 in Hull , † February 21, 2001 in Hailsham , East Sussex ; actually Adrian Hill ) was an English singer who was known for his romantic pop ballads in the 1950s . From 1954 to 1959 he was able to place 16 hits in the British charts , five of them in the top ten and one number one.

biography

Hilton comes from Yorkshire and worked in a sewing machine factory in Leeds from 1947 after his military service in World War II . After winning a talent competition in 1951, he also performed in the evening at a club in his hometown. A talent scout from HMV Records discovered him in 1953 thanks to a demo recording. Hilton's first single "I Wish and Wish" was not very successful, but in 1954 he became known across the UK with his first hit "I Still Believe" (his second 78 / min release ). He was the mid-1950s with his soft ballads, almost only cover versions of US hits , one of the stars of the British pop scene. With his operetta voice (like David Whitfield, Hilton was a real crooner of the tenor vocal range ), he brought 16 singles into the charts during the heyday of rock 'n' roll . His only number one hit in 1956 was the song "No Other Love" , which was also a (smaller) hit for the Johnston Brothers (22nd place) as well as for Edmund Hockridge (24th place). The song came from one of the lesser-known musicals by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein , "Me and Juliet" . Perry Como had a US number one hit in 1953 with his version of "No Other Love" , and in 1950 it was a US top ten hit for Jo Stafford . Hilton's last hit of the 1950s was a version of "The Wonder of You," which Elvis Presley made the number one hit in 1970 in a very similar arrangement.

Although the heyday of crooners and ballad singers was over, Hilton remained active on stage and in the studio until the second half of the 1960s; In 1964 and 1965 he was able to record two more chart hits, including "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam" - a children's song that was very popular with British children for a long time. Hilton himself didn't like this song: "I love my hits like 'Young and Foolish' and 'No Other Love' , but I really can't hear them anymore."

In 1976 he had a stroke ; later he became a radio presenter at the BBC and presented the series "Sounds of the Fifties" . In 1989 the British Academy of Song Composers and Authors awarded him a gold medal for his contributions to popular music.

Ronnie Hilton died after a series of strokes at the age of 75 in a nursing home in Hailsham.

Trivia

  • Ronnie Hilton was an avid supporter of the English football club Leeds United throughout his life and released a single entitled "Glory, Glory, Leeds United" in the year of its league cup victory in 1968 . A year later, the club became English champions for the first time.
  • During his military service as a corporal of the Gordon Highlanders , he was responsible for the bar in the officers' mess . "That was when I was taught the basics of combat drinking," he said in an interview.

Discography

Albums

  • 2006: The Very Best of Ronnie Hilton (compilation)

literature

swell

  1. ↑ Charts UK
  2. ↑ "I love my hit records like 'Young and Foolish' and 'No Other Love', but I am heartily sick of that one." from: Obituary in The Independent , s. Web links
  3. ^ [...] after being conscripted, he became a corporal in the Gordon Highlanders. "I was put in charge of the bar in the Officers' Mess," said Hilton, "and I got my groundings in heavy drinking there." ibid.

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personal data
SURNAME Hilton, Ronnie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, Adrian (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston upon Hull , England
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2001
Place of death Hailsham , England