Jerry Lordan

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Jerry Lordan
Background information
Birth nameJeremiah Patrick Lordan
Born30 April 1934
Paddington, London, England
Died24 July 1995(1995-07-24) (aged 61)
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
GenresPopular music
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter, composer
Years active1958-1995
LabelsParlophone

Jerry Lordan (born Jeremiah Patrick Lordan, 30 April 1934 – 24 July 1995)

UK Singles Chart before focusing purely on songwriting. Amongst his songwriting credits were the chart hits "I've Waited So Long", "Apache", "Wonderful Land", "Diamonds", and "A Girl Like You
".

Career

Born as Jeremiah Patrick Lordan in

advertising
. [2]

He began song-writing, and in 1958, with the help of contacts made in the advertising business a demo of one of his songs was heard by a record producer. The song, "A House, A Car and a Wedding Ring" was

UK Singles Chart in May 1959.[3] He was signed as a singer to Parlophone and had three charting singles in 1960,[2] the most successful being "Who Could Be Bluer?", produced by George Martin.[1]

He found real fame as a composer with the

Jorgen Ingmann, who took it to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.[2]

Lordan gave up singing for full-time writing. He wrote the Shadows' UK number one hit "

Shane Fenton and Louise Cordet ("I'm Just a Baby").[4]

By the end of the 1960s, the success was largely over and personal difficulties dogged Lordan through the 1970s.

the Onyx who under his guidance changed their name to Vineyard and released two singles on Decca and Deram in 1974. Later he made a brief foray in acting, appearing in the 1977 sex comedy, Come Play With Me. The film was directed by his neighbour, George Harrison Marks. In the 1980s, Lordan remarried and started to write again, although his songs were never published.[citation needed
]

Personal life

Lordan's first marriage was in 1963 to Petrina Forsyth who (credited as Petrina Lordan) wrote the Shadows hit "A Place in the Sun" (1966) and also, with Hank Marvin, "Love, Truth and Emily Stone" for Cliff Richard on his album Tracks 'n Grooves (1970).[6][7] His second marriage was to Claudine Albus/Hammerschmidt in 1980.[8]

Death

Lordan died on 24 July 1995 in Shrewsbury Hospital,

acute renal failure, aged 61. A memorial service was held for him at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 25 October 1995, during which Bruce Welch of the Shadows participated.[2]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1-904994-10-7
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 1-85227-745-9
    .
  3. ISBN 978-1-904994-10-7
    .
  4. ^ a b Marchese, Joe (16 October 2012). "In The Shadow of The Shadows: Songwriter Jerry Lordan Remembered on "All My Own Work"". Theseconddisc.com. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. AllMusic
    . Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  6. ISBN 978-0-9567384-0-0
    .
  7. ^ General Register Office of England and Wales, Marriages, September quarter 1963, Hampstead, Vol 5c, page 2146.
  8. ^ General Register Office of England and Wales, Marriages, September quarter 1980, Camden, Vol 14, page 1777.

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