Jack O'Diamonds Various Artists. Diana Various Artists. At The Hop Various Artists. Title: Thunder Road (1958) 6.7 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? LONNIE DONEGAN - Jack O' Diamonds - Original 1. UK PYE 2- trk 7. Don't let it get away - place another bid. You've been outbid by an automatic bid placed earlier by another bidder. You're the highest bidder on this item. You're the first bidder on this item. Although you're the highest bidder on this item, you're close to being outbid. This auction is almost over and you're currently the high bidder. Although you're the high bidder on this item, the reserve price hasn't been met yet. You've been outbid by someone else. You can still win! Try bidding again. You've been outbid by someone else's max. Try bidding again. Your bid wasn't accepted because it's the same as someone else's bid. Try raising your max. Good luck. You're still the highest bidder. LONNIE DONEGAN - Jack O' Diamonds - Original 1958 UK PYE 2-trk 7' vinyl single in Music, Records, 7'' Singles Jack O Diamonds (made famous by Lonnie Donegan) Odetta. British Singles Chart - Week Ending 17 January 1958. Buy Thunder Road (1958) ( Jack O'Diamonds (Whippoorwill)) You increased your max. You can save time and money by buying it now. Submit bid. Review and confirm your bid. Bid confirmation. Increase maximum bid. Enter a custom max. Lonnie Donegan - Wikipedia. Lonnie Donegan. MBELonnie Donegan in the 1. Background information. Birth name. Anthony James Donegan. Also known as. The King of Skiffle. Born(1. 93. 1- 0. April 1. 93. 1Bridgeton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UKDied. November 2. 00. 2(2. Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, England, UKGenres. Jack of Diamonds (a.k.a. Jack o' Diamonds and Jack of Diamonds (Is a Hard Card to Play)) is a traditional folk song. It is a Texas gambling song that was popularized. Skiffle, traditional pop music, blues, folk, country. Occupation(s)Musician, singer, songwriter. Instruments. Guitar, vocals, banjo. Years active. 19. He was the first British male singer with two US Top 1. He was the son of an Irish mother and a Scots father, a professional violinist who had played with the Scottish National Orchestra. In 1. 93. 3, he moved with his family to East Ham in East London. He had two daughters by his first wife, Maureen Tyler (divorced 1. Jill Westlake (divorced 1. Sharon, whom he married in 1. Donegan died on 3 November 2. Market Deeping, Lincolnshire mid- way through a UK tour and before he was due to perform at a memorial concert for George Harrison with the Rolling Stones. He had had cardiac problems since the 1. Trad jazz. Donegan had never played the banjo but he bought one for the audition and succeeded more on personality than talent. A posting to Vienna brought him into contact with American troops, and access to US records and the American Forces Network radio station. On 2. 8 June 1. 95. Royal Festival Hall they opened for the blues musician Lonnie Johnson. He used the name at a concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 2 June 1. He returned to Britain and joined Chris Barber's band. That changed name to Ken Colyer's Jazzmen and made its first public appearance on 1. April 1. 95. 3 in Copenhagen. The following day, Chris Albertson recorded Ken Colyer's Jazzmen and the Monty Sunshine Trio . These were Donegan's first commercial recordings. He began playing with two other band members during the intervals, to provide what posters called a . It was the first debut record to go gold in the UK, and it reached the Top Ten in the United States. His next single for Decca, . He had left the Barber band, and by spring 1. Pye. 2 in the UK Singles Chart. The LP sold hundreds of thousands. But it reached number one in the UK. Donegan's group had a flexible line- up, but was generally Denny Wright or Les Bennetts (of Les Hobeaux and Days of Skiffle, led by singer Dave George), playing lead guitar and singing harmony, Micky Ashman or Pete Huggett . After 1. 96. 4, he was as a record producer for most of the decade at Pye Records. Among those he worked with was Justin Hayward. A departure from his normal style was an a cappella recording of . A bomb scare meant that the recording had to be finished in the studio, after an impromptu concert in the car park. He returned to attention in 1. Rory Gallagher, Ringo Starr, Elton John and Brian May. The album was called Putting on the Style. By 1. 98. 0, he was making regular concert appearances again, and another album with Barber followed. In 1. 98. 3 Donegan toured with Billie Jo Spears, and in 1. Mr Cinders. More concert tours followed, with a move from Florida to Spain. In 1. 99. 2 he had further bypass surgery following another heart attack. Pat Halcox was still on trumpet (a position he retained until July 2. The reunion concert and the tour were on CD and DVD. Donegan had a late renaissance when in 2. Van Morrison's album The Skiffle Sessions . Donegan also played at the Glastonbury Festival, and was made an MBE in 2. Donegan also appeared at Fairport Convention's annual music festival on 9 August 2. His final CD was This Yere de Story. Mark Knopfler released a tribute to Donegan entitled . Subsequently, Peter Donegan formed a band to perform his father's material and has since linked with his father's band from the last 3. Eddie Masters on bass. They made an album together in 2. Donegan's eldest son, Anthony, also formed his own band, as Lonnie Donegan Jnr. On his album A Beach Full of Shells, Al Stewart paid tribute to Donegan in the song . I want to widen the audience beyond the artsy- craftsy crowd and the pseudo intellectuals . You had to be very clever to play music. When I came along with the old three chords, people began to think that if I could do it, so could they. It was the reintroduction of the folk music bridge which did that. We all bought guitars to be in a skiffle group. But the man who really made me feel like I could actually go out and do it was a chap by the name of Lonnie Donegan. Tops with Lonnie (April 1. Sing Hallelujah (December 1. The Lonnie Donegan Folk Album (August 1. Lonniepops ! Rare Tapes from the Late Sixties (2. Donegan on Stage . Golden Age of Donegan Volume 2 (1. Putting on the Style (1. King of Skiffle (1. Puttin' On the Style . Decca 6. 34. 5 (1. British Hit Singles & Albums (1. London: Guinness World Records Limited. Retrieved 2. 7 November 2. Retrieved 2. 0 October 2. Retrieved 2. 3 June 2. Retrieved 1. 9 September 2. The Restless Generation. ISBN 9. 78- 0- 9. Price, 2. 01. 0.^Tobler, John (1. NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. Margrave of the Marshes (1st ed.). Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival (2nd revised ed.). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 1. 6 June 2.
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