|
|
Post by Shaun B on Dec 8, 2003 23:09:08 GMT
This is a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone might have some information on what footage survives of 1950s/1960s U.K. Crosbyesque crooner Michael Holliday? His BBC show "Holliday Time," unless I'm losing it, doesn't have a listing in the kaleidoscope music /comedy guide. Some audio recordings of the show certainly survive (extracts were included in various BBC Radio documentaries) but I can't recall seeing footage of the guy..well, ever. Any ideas?
Cheers,
Shaun
|
|
|
|
Post by helpful hartley on Dec 9, 2003 16:52:13 GMT
are you sure its spelt like 'holiday' ? I thought it was spelt like 'halliday' ..maybe wrong?
|
|
|
|
Post by Shaun B on Dec 9, 2003 17:05:29 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Neil Barker on Dec 9, 2003 17:47:04 GMT
You might be getting mixed up with Johnny Halliday.
|
|
|
|
Post by H Hartley on Dec 9, 2003 18:59:49 GMT
are yes! the memory gears have been oiled, lots of scandal with Holliday i beleive, then he commited suicide
|
|
|
|
Post by Shaun B on Dec 9, 2003 19:39:33 GMT
H.H. said:
>the memory gears have been oiled, lots of scandal >with Holliday i beleive, then he commited suicide
Without wanting to get *too* "News Of the World"y, any idea what these scandals entailed? MH was, apparently, something of a womaniser, and suffered from severe bouts of depression, but I've not read anything else dubious about him. Fascinating character, with a voice that could melt permafrost.
SB
|
|
|
|
Post by h hartley on Dec 9, 2003 20:24:55 GMT
well i am not one to gossip but....
the following maybe truth,rumours or downright lies i do not know for sure.
I heard that he was 'very close'?? to a boxer called Freddie Mills. Mills was also supposed to have committed suicide. The Mills suicide was attributed to a lamented relationship. However later there was speculation that the Mills and Holiday story was just a nasty rumour to cover up for the fact that due to Mill's links with London, ' families ' a contract had been put out on him and he was infact murdered..
as i say dont shoot the messenger but make up your own mind
|
|
|
|
Post by Shaun B on Dec 9, 2003 21:39:10 GMT
Interesting stuff. Mills turns up in Jake Arnott's "The Long Firm," and there's some mention of his connections with various London underworld figures. It's a tangled web, yer 1960's metro muso-crim world.
|
|
