Crispian St. Peters

Crispian St. Peters ( born April 5, 1939 as Robin Peter Smith in Swanley, Kent, † June 8, 2010 ) was an English singer.

Smith gained his first experience as a singer in various youth groups. There he learned to play the guitar. The long, thin young man wanted to be a session guitarist actually first tried it but then as a singer. Mid-1960s, he got under the stage name Crispian St. Peters a record deal, his songs, however, were all flops.

The tide turned in 1966 when he You were on my mind recorded a song with which had had a hit in the U.S. In 1965, the group We Five. Even his second great success, The Pied Piper, was a cover version. In the original, the song of the group Changin ' Times, which was thus but come also in 1965 in the U.S. only number 87 came from.

Hit- Singles

• You Were On My Mind 1966 ( UK # 2, D # 23 )
• The Pied Piper 1966 ( U.S. # 4, UK # 5, D # 11 )
• Changes 1966 ( U.S. number 57, UK number 47 )
• You Were On My Mind ( Repr ), 1967 ( U.S. # 36 )