Showing posts with label Bryan Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bryan Johnson. Show all posts

Saturday 29 November 2014

Looking high, high, high - Bryan Johnson

Bryan Johnson was born on July 18, 1926. He became a regular appearance on 'A Song For Europe', the UK national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest. He competed in 1957, 1960 and 1961, but only qualified for the 1960 edition with 'Looking high, high, high', a song written by John Watson. He ended up in second place on the Contest, behind 'Tom Pillibi' by Jacqueline Boyer. The single reached number 20 in the UK singles chart. 

Johnson was also an actor who, in Donald Wolfit's company, played such roles as Feste in Twelfth Night and the Fool in King Lear. In Ronald Harwood's biography of Wolfit, the actor is quoted as saying that he was "the best Fool I ever had". Later he played roles in musicals such as 'Lock Up Your Daughters' and enjoyed a late success as Scrooge in a touring production of 'A Christmas Carol'. He died on October 18, 1995.

My collection: 7" single no. 5602
Found: Marktplaats.nl, received August 6, 2014
Cost: 2 euro
Tracks: 'Looking high, high, high' / 'Each tomorrow'

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