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The Very Best Of Des O'Connor

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O'Connor starred in mainstream television shows in almost every year from 1963 until the 2000s, a feat that only one other television personality has achieved worldwide (U.S. game show host Bob Barker, who hosted mainstream television shows from 1956 until 2007, with 1966–1972 being in syndication). Caroline Cleaveley (2010). Memories of United Counties Part 1: Northampton. Silver Link Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85794-343-6.

He won so many friends just by showing he was a man who didn’t take himself too seriously,” said O’Connor’s fellow entertainer Bruce Forsyth, “He takes his work seriously, of course, and is the consummate professional, but I think what the British like, more than anything else, is a man who can take a joke against himself.” Between 1963 and 1971 O'Connor hosted The Des O'Connor Show, a British variety show, for eight series on ITV. This was followed by Des O'Connor Entertains, a show which ran for two series between 1974 and 1976 and featured singing, dancing, and comedy sketches. In 1969, thirteen editions of the show were sold to NBC in the United States, as a summer replacement for the network's Kraft Music Hall. The series was broadcast in more than forty countries. [ citation needed] Between 1977 and 2002, O'Connor presented his own chat show series entitled Des O'Connor Tonight which lasted for seven series on BBC Two and later seventeen on ITV. Bing Crosby with The Music Maids and Hal and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REL, Bing Crosby BRD, Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash, Dorothy Squires with Orchestra conducted by Billy Reid, Gene Autry and The Pinafores with Orchestral Acc. However, there was no sympathy or liking, at least publicly, from Eric Morecambe. Almost from the time the men first encountered each other on the theatre variety circuit in the 1950s, Morecambe cultivated an on-stage joke about O’Connor being an allegedly terrible singer and second-rate act.a b Jeffries, Stuart (15 November 2020). "Des O'Connor obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 16 November 2020.

The active participation of the target helped somewhat to neutralise the cruelty, and, suggesting to the audience that he was a sport, further enhanced O’Connor’s reputation as a nice guy. Despite being presented on Morecambe & Wise, to up to 30 million viewers, as a tuneless loser, O’Connor by 1969 was celebrated enough to be a guest on ITV’s top-rating biographical entertainment show, This is Your Life. Les Reed was in Wessex Studios and had just finished a session with Quincy Jones when he met O'Connor coming into the studio to record a jingle. O'Connor asked Reed and Barry Mason write a song for him, which the duo complied and wrote "I Pretend" in an hour. They gave the song to O'Connor, who then asked Geoff Love to arrange the song so he could record it in two days' time. [6] Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bobby Goday REC, The Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra BRD A month after his death, ITV aired a tribute, titled Des O'Connor: The Ultimate Entertainer, on 13 December 2020. Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour and His Orchestra REC, Frank Sinatra – Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl RELa b c d " 'Ultimate entertainer' Des O'Connor dies aged 88". BBC News . Retrieved 15 November 2020. Bing Crosby & Marjorie Reynolds [dubbed by Martha Mears] BRD, Bing Crosby with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REC, REL In late 2011, O'Connor starred in Dreamboats and Petticoats at the Playhouse Theatre. [ citation needed] The One and Only Des O'Connor". ITV. 19 March 2012. Archived from the original on 26 June 2012 . Retrieved 15 November 2020.

All three of his biggest-selling records were sad ballads, a man lamenting a love lost for some reason, and this helped to establish, for his fans, a sympathetic, self-deprecating, likeable image that lasted throughout his career. Confirmed: Des O'Connor to Star as The Wizard in THE WIZARD OF OZ from May 22; Show to Close in September", BroadwayWorld, 22 May 2012, accessed 21 February 2021 Happy Holiday / Winter Wonderland / Snowy White Snow and Jingle Bells / Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reind… In 2001, O'Connor was presented with the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards for his contribution to television.

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Some of this was wordplay (“Des, short for desperate,” the comedian used to say), but, although Morecambe liked to claim that the hostility towards the performer was humorously fake, showbiz snobbery may have been involved. Comics, who saw their art as the hardest interaction with an audience, could be dismissive of song-and-dance men (Bruce Forsyth also faced some of this), and O’Connor was also part-Irish (on his father’s side, his mother being Jewish) in an era when racist jokes about people from Ireland were a staple of English comedy. Still Bringing Us Sunshine: Eric and Ernie's best moments". Daily Telegraph. 23 December 2016 . Retrieved 15 November 2020. Tony Martin with Orchestra under direction of Victor Young REC, Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen Forrest BRD In April 2012, ITV aired The One and Only Des O'Connor, a one-off show that celebrated O'Connor's 80th birthday, with guests including Katherine Kelly, Olly Murs, Robert Lindsay, and Melanie Sykes. [10] Yves Montand BRD, Cora Vaucaire - Au piano : M. Philippe-Gérard REL, Jo Stafford with Orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney

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