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Frankie Vaughan vintage promokaart met handtekening
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Conditie: Zo goed als nieuw
Type: Foto of Kaart
Eigenschappen: Gesigneerd
Beschrijving
He was born frank ableson to a jewish family in devon street, liverpool. The name ;vaughan; came from a grandmother whose first grandson he was, who used to call frank ;my number one; grandson, in whose russian accent ;one; sounded like ;vaughan;. In his early life, he was a member of the lancaster lads; club, a member group of the national association of boys; clubs in the uk, and in his career he was a major contributor to the clubs, dedicating his monetary compensation from one song each year to them. He was an evacuee during world war 2.He started out at the club intending to be a boxer. He attended the lancaster college of art on a scholarship and was a vocalist in their dance band. After a stint in the royal army medical corps in world war 2 (where he spent most of his time boxing) he returned to art school, this time at the leeds college of art. When he won a prize in a design contest, he left for london, where he won second prize on a radio talent show. Vaughan;s career began in the late 1940s performing song and dance routines.
He was known as a fancy dresser, wearing top hat, bow tie, tails, and cane. In the 1950s he worked for a few years with the nat temple band, and after that period he then began making records, and was popular in the uk. In 1955, he recorded what was to become his trademark song, ;give me the moonlight, give me the girl;. He recorded a large number of songs that were covers of united states hit songs, vaughan was created an obe in 1965, a cbe in 1996, and as a resident of high wycombe had been a deputy lieutenant of the county of buckinghamshire since 1993. He was an honorary fellow of liverpool john moores university.death vaughan died from heart failure in oxford in 1999, aged 71. His wife stella donated archival materials, including scores and sheet music he had collected throughout his career to liverpool john moores university in 2000
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