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warranted and he had to make do with a small combo and his own piano playing. After that he and
Fontana parted company. There was however one last disc on the Piccadilly label. Released on 6 March 1964, "Please Don't Cry" failed to generate significant sales and became his last recording. The B-side, "Every Hour of Living", was a better song, reminiscent of "Somebody to Love".
106:. James was impressed with the half-dozen songs that Newman sang and took him to see Fontana's A & R Manager Jack Baverstock to demonstrate the numbers. James was only trying to sell the songs but Jack Baverstock liked Newman's singing voice and decided that he would make the discs too. The result was Newmans's first disc for
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Sandringham Hotel, Sandown. During this period he and Tommie Connor wrote a song called "Somebody to Love". When Newman performed it the audience received it enthusiastically and one of them, a songwriter himself, advised him to go to London and
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number, "Point of No Return", for his fourth release. This one did no better and he returned to his own material for his last
Fontana offering, "I'll Find You Another Baby". He did his best to produce a contemporary sound but Fontana was past funding the lavish orchestral backing that the song
110:, "Somebody to Love", coupled with "This Time It's Love", both his own compositions. "Somebody to Love" reached number 47 in the UK singles charts in February 1962. On the back of this small hit record Newman appeared on top rated TV shows including
50:. After a while he began to sing with them as well. In 1955 The Kingpins topped the bill at the Newcastle Palace, and went on to make successful appearances at the Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow. Then he was called up and he served two years in the
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