Vince Hill

Vince Hill ( born April 16, 1937 in Holbrooks, Coventry) is an English singer.

Biography

At 15, he sang in a pub in Margate. But for the music he decided only after he had worked for a while as a baker, a truck driver and in a coal mine.

The decisive boost for his singing career came when he was called up for military service. He was a singer in the Royal Signals Band, a chapel of the Royal British corps. After discharge from the military service, he went with a musical called Flora Dora on tour and was a singer in the Teddy Foster's band, a big band from London.

In the early 1960s he became a member of a band called " Jackie and the Rain Drops" and had his first appearances on the BBC radio show "Parade of the Pops". In 1961 he left the group for a solo career.

His first single, which was also placed in the British charts, was Rivers run dry (# 41) in 1963. His first Top 20 hit Take Me to Your Heart Again ( English version of La vie en rose ) reached 1966 rank # 13 the hit parade. Other notable chart entries were Heartaches (# 28, 1966), the Udo Jürgens composition Merci, Chérie (# 36, 1966), Roses of Picardy (# 13, 1967), Love Letters in the Sand (# 23, 1967) and look Around (# 12, 1971).

His biggest success recorded Vince Hill with his version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein song Edelweiss. In the wake of the successful musical The Sound of Music - My Dreams ( The Sound of Music), the song rose in February 1967 and ranked # 2 in the British charts.