Obituary
Yep he was still alive.
I remember yooooouuu. Frank Ifield dies at 86
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Great orbit of Frank in today’s Times.
Excelllent story about Rory Storm’s sister, Iris Caldwell, two-time FI with Paul McC. A prototype Patsy Kensitt, Iris later went on to marry a pre-Alvin Stardust Shane Fenton
Calling @Kaisfatdad to the thread…
And yet another who was a Brit emigrant who found musical success from Australia.
Surprised he was only 86.
Pretty sure he was, like fellow 1960s light-entertainment mainstay, Vince Hill, either born or raised in Coventry.
RIP Frank
He taught me to yodel. Yodeloodeldee.
Not just you, Beany! He taught the world to yodel!! Thanks for summoning me @fitterstoke.
A charming chap!
An Australian yodeller who conquered the world! You couldn’t make it up!
Famously had the Beatles as support after Epstein pleaded with him , or his manager, or somebody.
I didn’t know that. I do know McCartney had an affair with Ifield’s wife or girlfriend (probably in Lewisohn book). The Beatles covering “I Remember You” was something of a joke about that I believe
Almost 10 comments down the page and no one has yet disinterred the old joke about Sid Vicious’ cover of IRY
You just did – well done, young man!
The original was supposedly about an affair between Johnny Mercer and Judy Garland.
I Remember You was one of the earliest songs to make an impression on me.
The Fabs had “A Hard Day’s Night”, Dave Clark’s Five had “Catch Us If You Can”, Frank had….”Up Jumped A Swagman”…
Suzy Kendall! Married to sex thimble Dudley Moore later on.
From wiki
The film was made when Frank Ifield was at the height of his popularity, and attempts to reproduce the success of Cliff Richard’s musicals. Ifield’s agent, Leslie Grade, suggested another one of his clients, Christopher Miles, as director. Miles was only 25 and had never made a feature film before. He said the script was to be written by the people who wrote Richard’s musicals:
Unfortunately the two writers of the Cliff pictures were not then on speaking terms, so the two halves of a rather soggy script arrived separately in the post, and not surprisingly made no sense at all. So Leslie, not one to be beaten, got an old writer friend from ITV, Lewis Greifer, saying “He’s the man, I know you’ll get on well” which we did. However, thinking up a credible vehicle for Frank, amiable and charming as he was, proved to me that ultimately you cannot make a celluloid purse out of a sow’s ear….
Remarkable @Junior Wells.
The plot of Up Jumped a Swagman ( Aussie singer out of his depth in Swinging London)
reminds me of the Adventures of Barry Mackenzie which came out a decade later
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068173/
Here’s Dame Edna performing Disco Matilda in 1979
Like him or loathe him he was very popular around 62/63
As a 10 year old I recall seeing him on the usual tv variety shows of the time. Probably he appeared on Sunday Night at the London Palladium(?) My gran liked him.
He lived Padstow many years ago but very wisely moved away from there before all the ‘who Ray Henrys’ took over so, clearly, he was no fool.
Also connected to one of the rarest Beatles albums, it has sold for up to 10k
The drawing of the Fabs on the cover looks like the work one of Mad Magazine’s artists from the early 1960s. Buggered if I know which one
Macca – looks nothing like him.
Maybe they were trying to ease the OPD ringer into the Fab Macca role a couple of tears before his “accident”
Other than the revelation that his dad invented the Ifield Pump used in fuel systems for jet aircraft, the thing that caught my attention in the original BBC obit was that Trank left a wife, 2 children and 2 brothers one of whom was called Frank. They’ve since changed that to say they were Bob & David. Reminds me of the story I heard told on stage by the fiddler from Lau who said he knew someone whose middle names were Angus Angus. When asked why he said he was named after 2 separate uncles.
LOL
There’s a QLD politician called Grace Grace.
Lovesick Blues was number 1 the day I was born, it had just toppled Telstar by the Tornados off of top spot, I can never forgive him for that!