The Very Best Of Des O'Connor

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Francisco Alves com Radamés Gnattali e sua Orquestra REC, REL, Araci Cortes PRF, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Choruses by Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell He kept working until late into his life, on stage and screen, and touring with a one-man show. In 2011 he made his West End musical debut in Dreamboats and Petticoats, and joked: “I’m hoping to win a most promising newcomer award.” O'Connor appeared at the Glasgow Empire, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, the Opera House, Sydney, and the O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, and made more than one thousand solo appearances at the London Palladium. [4] Desmond Bernard O'Connor CBE (12 January 1932 – 14 November 2020) was an English comedian, singer and television presenter.

Between 1977 and 2002, O'Connor presented his own chat show series entitled Des O'Connor Tonight which lasted for seven series on BBC Two and later seventeen on ITV. The One and Only Des O'Connor". ITV. 19 March 2012. Archived from the original on 26 June 2012 . Retrieved 15 November 2020. Bing Crosby & Marjorie Reynolds [dubbed by Martha Mears] BRD, Bing Crosby with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REC, REL In April 2012, ITV aired The One and Only Des O'Connor, a one-off show that celebrated O'Connor's 80th birthday, with guests including Katherine Kelly, Olly Murs, Robert Lindsay, and Melanie Sykes. [10] Until 2019, O'Connor toured theatres around the UK with his one-man show. [ citation needed] Television [ edit ]Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour and His Orchestra REC, Frank Sinatra – Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl REL Between 1963 and 1971 O'Connor hosted The Des O'Connor Show, a British variety show, for eight series on ITV. This was followed by Des O'Connor Entertains, a show which ran for two series between 1974 and 1976 and featured singing, dancing, and comedy sketches. In 1969, thirteen editions of the show were sold to NBC in the United States, as a summer replacement for the network's Kraft Music Hall. The series was broadcast in more than forty countries. [ citation needed] Still Bringing Us Sunshine: Eric and Ernie's best moments". Daily Telegraph. 23 December 2016 . Retrieved 15 November 2020. Happy Holiday / Winter Wonderland / Snowy White Snow and Jingle Bells / Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reind…

I was dubbed a Casanova but I’d only been out with three girls in my life and I married them all,” he told an interviewer in 1996. Not quite. Among the women he dated was the singer Shirley Bassey, whom he took on a boating lake in Leeds and to the pictures in the early 1960s. Years later he asked her what she had thought of the experience. “I thought you were gay,” she replied. In 2001, O'Connor was presented with the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards for his contribution to television. Book Des O'Connor – Celebrities from The Mcleod Agency". The Mcleod Agency. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014 . Retrieved 15 November 2020. Yves Montand BRD, Cora Vaucaire - Au piano : M. Philippe-Gérard REL, Jo Stafford with Orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney

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a b c d " 'Ultimate entertainer' Des O'Connor dies aged 88". BBC News . Retrieved 15 November 2020. In May 2012, O'Connor replaced Russell Grant in the West End musical, The Wizard of Oz, at the London Palladium, as Professor Marvel, Doorman at the Emerald City, Tour Guide, and The Wizard. [7] Some of this was wordplay (“Des, short for desperate,” the comedian used to say), but, although Morecambe liked to claim that the hostility towards the performer was humorously fake, showbiz snobbery may have been involved. Comics, who saw their art as the hardest interaction with an audience, could be dismissive of song-and-dance men (Bruce Forsyth also faced some of this), and O’Connor was also part-Irish (on his father’s side, his mother being Jewish) in an era when racist jokes about people from Ireland were a staple of English comedy. Morecambe and Wise rip into Des O’Connor on their sketch show. It turned out O’Connor was in on the joke

a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.403. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. All three of his biggest-selling records were sad ballads, a man lamenting a love lost for some reason, and this helped to establish, for his fans, a sympathetic, self-deprecating, likeable image that lasted throughout his career.

O’Connor’s first marriage, to Phyllis Gill, a fellow redcoat at Butlin’s whom he married in 1953 and with whom he had a daughter, Karen, ended in divorce in 1960. That year he married the ballerina and actor Gillian Vaughan, with whom he had two daughters, Tracey Jane and Samantha, before their divorce in 1982. Three years later he married the model Jay Fufer and they had a daughter, Kristina, but divorced in 1990. Young, Graham (1 February 2009). "How Des O'Connor will never forget Buddy Holly". BirminghamLive. [ dead link] O'Connor was the first subject of the second incarnation of the long-running television programme This Is Your Life, when the show returned to screens after a five-year absence, produced by Thames Television. He was surprised live on the stage of the London Palladium by Eamonn Andrews in November 1969. [4]