Born in 1938 and raised in Stepney, East London, Kenny Lynch was one of thirteen children. He began singing with his sister, Gladys, who was a jazz singer working under the name of Maxine Daniels.
He was one of the few black British pop singers to find fame in the early 1960s, signing to EMI’s HMV label where his first single, a cover of Harold Dorman’s American top thirty hit, Mountain Of Love made the UK Top 40. Five further singles failed to make an impact before he made the charts again in 1962 with Puff (Up In Smoke).
He was also the first artist to cover a Beatles song when he released a version of Misery in 1963. A decade later, he was one of the celebrities to appear with Paul and Linda McCartney on the sleeve of the Wings album Band on the Run.
Kenny was best known for his role in the 1970 movie Carry On Loving and his hit top 10 songs Up On The Roof and You Can Never Stop Me Loving You. He also appeared in several TV shows including Curry and Chips (1969) and Get This (1976).
He received an OBE for his stellar career in entertainment.
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20 x 25 minute episodes
The first series of this Channel 4 programme for children was transmitted at 5.30pm on Wednesday evenings. The second series went out at...
This is a mixed-up collection of Carry On delights with a totally meaningless title for a totally plotless array of brief comic situations and familiar character players. As the title suggests, this film - the fifth in the...
Chinese criminal mastermind Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) and his army of henchmen return in this, the second film of five in producer Harry Alan Towers' Fu Manchu series.
This time around, Fu Manchu is kidnapping the...
Promises comprised three Canadian-born siblings, Leslie Knauer (vocals), Jed Knauer (guitar and keyboards) and Benjamin Knauer (keyboards and vocals). Their father Peter was originally from Hamburg, Germany, and after settling in Canada for some years,...
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13 x 30 minute episodes
This BBC comedy show gave 27-year-old actor Richard Briers his first starring role, cast as the innocent but enthusiastic pupil barrister Roger Thursby in his first year in...
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8 x 50 minute episodes
British boatbuilder Alan Haldane (Jack Hedley) returns to the island of Crete where he played a roll in the resistance movement, fighting alongside the 'Andartes' after the Nazi's...
A grim thriller about Max Cady, an ex-convict who seeks revenge on Sam Bowden - the meek lawyer he believes responsible for his eight-year prison sentence.
Robert Mitchum plays the cigar-chomping sadistic sex offender who threatens to rape...
