| 词条 | Ross Parker (songwriter) |
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| name = Ross Parker | image = Album_cover_of_The_Happy_Piano_of_Ross_Parker.jpg | caption = Ross Parker on the cover of his 1968 album The Happy Piano of Ross Parker | background = non_performing_personnel | birth_name = Albert Rostron Parker[1] | alias = Ross Parker Clarke Ross-Parker | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|8|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Manchester, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|8|2|1914|8|16|df=y}} | death_place = Kent, England | genre = Pop, swing | associated_acts = | occupation = Songwriter, lyricist, actor | years_active = 1930–1974 }} Ross Parker (born Albert Rostron Parker) (16 August 1914 – 2 August 1974) was an English pianist, composer, lyricist and actor. He is best known for co-writing the songs "We'll Meet Again"[2] and "There'll Always Be an England". Songwriting careerParker had a long and successful songwriting career which included chart hits from 1938 to 1970. In 1938 he was already considered one of England's "big five" songwriters.[3] Horace Heidt's version of Parker's song "The Girl In The Blue Bonnet" reached #15 on the Billboard charts in 1938.[4] "I Won't Tell A Soul (I Love You)" was a number one hit for Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy, spending 12 weeks on the Billboard chart in 1939.[5] Although "There'll Always Be an England" was released before the start of World War Two, it became an enormous success when war was declared by Britain. Parker joined the British Army. He and Hughie Charles (his collaborator on "There'll Always Be an England" and "We'll Meet Again") continued to write patriotic songs such as "The Navy's Here" during the war.[6] Ross Parker wrote the original songs for several stage shows performed by The Crazy Gang at the Victoria Palace, London, in the early 1950s, including Knights of Madness, Ring out the Bells, Jokers Wild and These Foolish Kings. In 1956, Shirley Bassey's manager Michael Sullivan commissioned Parker to write a song for the then 19-year-old Bassey.[7][8] Parker wrote "Burn My Candle", which later became Bassey's first recording. Acting CareerParker made his on-screen debut in the British - American film by Albert R. Broccoli, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as Lord Scrumptious' chef. It was his only notable role in a blockbuster film. Parker previously had appeared on stage in Paris, in 1955, in "Pommes à l'Anglaise". He then performed in the revue La Plume de Ma Tante for several years, firstly at the Garrick Theatre in London from 1956 to 1958, then at the Royale Theatre, New York, from 1958 to 1960, after which the revue toured to Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1961. Parker returned to the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris in 1965 to appear in this revue once again. Musicals
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References1. ^[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39310/page/4352/data.pdf Notice of name change] in The London Gazette, 14 August 1951 2. ^{{cite book|author=Mark Steyn|title=Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FlWUaU5eo90C|year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-92287-6|page=166}} 3. ^{{cite news |title=Composer Dies At 59 |newspaper= Glasgow Herald |date=3 August 1974}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://tsort.info/music/y31hb3.htm|title=Song artist 421 - Horace Heidt|first=|last=Tsort|website=tsort.info}} 5. ^{{cite web |url= http://tsort.info/music/h1e2ag.htm |title=Obsolete song artist page |last=Tsort|website=tsort.info}} 6. ^{{cite news |title=There'll Always Be An England |newspaper= Coaticook Observer |date=27 September 1940}} 7. ^{{cite book |first= John L.|last= Williams |year= 2010 |title= Miss Shirley Bassey |publisher= Quercus |location= London |isbn= 978-1-84724-974-6 |pages= 121–122}} 8. ^{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Muriel |title=Shirley|date=31 August 2013|publisher=Random House|accessdate=4 July 2014}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=Clown Jewels|url=http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_c/clownjewels.htm|website=The Guide To Musical Theatre|accessdate=4 July 2014}} 10. ^{{Cite news| volume = 48 -49| pages = 6| last = Anon| title = Happy as a King| work = Theatre World}} 11. ^{{cite web|title=Knights of Madness|url=http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_k/knightsmadness.htm|website=Guide To Musical Theatre|accessdate=4 July 2014}} 12. ^{{cite book|author=Colin MacKenzie|title=Mantovani: A Lifetime in Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X0unFqqjhMAC|year=2005|publisher=Melrose Press|isbn=978-1-905226-19-1|page=131}} 13. ^http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=2715 La Plume de Ma Tante 14. ^{{Cite news| volume = 35| pages = 35| title = The rotund and jovial Ross Parker is a tremendous cabaret favourite in London's West End| work = Country Fair| date = 1968}} External links
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