Dick James
Dick James (12 December 1920 – 1 February 1986), born Leon Isaac Vapnick in the East End of London, was a British music publisher and, together with his son Stephen, founded the DJM record label and recording studios, as well as (with Brian Epstein) the Beatles' publisher Northern Songs.
Career
Early days
James sang with North London dance bands in his early teens, and was a regular vocalist at the Cricklewood Palais by the age of seventeen. He joined the Henry Hall band, and made first radio broadcast in 1940, but joined the Army in 1942. After World War II he continued to sing with leading bands, including Geraldo's. Later still, James was also a part-time member of The Stargazers, a popular early 1950s vocal group. In the 1950s he often appeared in the top ten Melody Maker vocal charts alongside the likes of Dickie Valentine and Frank Holder.
He was the singer of the theme songs of The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Buccaneers, from British television in the 1950s, and was a friend and associate of the record producer George Martin.
Dick James (American football)
Richard "Dick" Alwin James (May 22, 1934 – June 28, 2000) was an American football halfback and defensive back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, New York Giants, and the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football at the University of Oregon and was drafted in the eighth round of the 1956 NFL Draft. James' Mother was Mohawk/Mohican Native American.
He set a team record with four touchdowns in one game as the Redskins beat the Dallas Cowboys, 34-24 in 1961. He scored 34 touchdowns in his National Football League career. James was one of the smallest players in the NFL at 5-9 and 175 pounds. James was also known as gymnast, performing such acts as walking on his hands down flights of stairs before games. He died in 2000 of prostate cancer at the age of 66.
He had a short stint as a sports announcer in the Washington DC area after he retired mainly covering the Redskins on game day.
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Dick James
ALBUMS
- The Broons Family Album released: 2010
- Original Hits - 50s released: 2010
- 101 Fifties Songs released: 2008
- Complete Kids released: 2006
- Hello Children Everywhere released: 2005
- Hello Children Everywhere! 60 Favourite Kids' Songs released: 2004
- Best of the Fifties released: 2003
- Hello Children Everywhere released: 2002
- Junior Choice - Volume 1 released: 1990
- Hello Children... Everywhere released: 1988
- The Fabulous Fifties released:
- I Remember You released:
- A Time to Remember: 1956 released:
- 100% Television Themes released:
- Golden Hits of 1951 released:
- Hits of the 50's released:
The Broons Family Album
Released 2010- Come In Come In (White Heather Club intro)
- Gay Gordons
- Hoots Mon
- I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
- La Di Da
- These Are My Mountains
- Caledonia
- The Song of the Clyde
- Scotland the Brave / The Black Bear (medley)
- Green Green Grass of Home
- Scottish Reels / Celtic Reel
- I Love a Lassie
- Shang a Lang
- Donald Where's Your Troosers?
- Flower of Scotland
- Dashing White Sergeant
- Lily the Pink
- Bluebell Polka
- Bonnie Wee Jeanie McColl / Ye Canne Shove Yer Granny Aff a Bus
- Two Little Boys
- Amazing Grace
- Stop Yer Tickling Clock
- My Ain Folk
- My Home
- Auld Lang Syne
Original Hits - 50s
Released 2010- Bye Bye Love
- Wake Up Little Susie
- Wheel of Fortune
- Never Do a Tango With an Eskimo
- In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening
- Why Do Fools Fall in Love
- Get Happy
- Zambezi
- Dragnet
- Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody (medley)
- Blue Tango
- Tom Dooley
- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
- The Green Door
- Big Man
- Treasure of Love
- Sugar Bush (Songs From the Veldt)
- Cheek to Cheek
- From the Time You Say Goodbye
- Be My Girl
- The Clouds Will Soon Roll By
101 Fifties Songs
Released 2008- Love Me Tender
- Cry Me A River
- My Funny Valentine
- Secret Love
- You Belong To Me
- Stranger In Paradise
- Here In My Heart
- No Other Love
- I Believe
- When I Fall In Love
- Come Softly To Me
- All I Have To Do Is Dream
- Mr. Sandman
- Love And Marriage
- Memories Are Made Of This
- Young Love
- Just Walking In The Rain
- Stairway Of Love
- Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
- I'll Be with You In Apple Blossom Time
- Sway
- Stardust
- Three Coins In The Fountain
- Vaya Con Dios (May God Be With You)
- Softly Softly
- Rose Marie
- Wheel Of Fortune
- Wanted
- The Great Pretender
Hello Children Everywhere
Released 2005- When I See Elephant Fly
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Woody Woodpecker
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Soldier Won't You Marry Me
- Little Sir Echo
- I've Got No Strings
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
- The Little Shoemaker
- Coronation Scot
- In the Middle of the House
- The Happy Wanderer
- A Windmill in Old Amsterdam
- The Siamese Cat Song
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- Little Red Monkey
- Baby Sittin' Bodgie
- Beep Beep
- Sixteen Tons
- Tom Dooley
- Ragtime Cowboy Joe
- Boom Do Yata-Ta-Ta
- Hippopotamus Song
- Pickin' a Chicken
- Kitty in the Basket
- Right Said Fred
- Lily the Pink
Hello Children Everywhere! 60 Favourite Kids' Songs
Released 2004- Jake the Peg
- The Grand Old Duke of York
- Right Said Fred
- The Runaway Train
- Ernie
- Lily the Pink
- All Things Bright and Beautiful
- When I See an Elephant Fly
- Grandfather's Clock
- I Know an Old Lady
- The Ballad of Davy Crockett
- Ragtime Cowboy Joe
- Puffin' Billy
- You're a Pink Toothbrush
- Pickin' a Chicken
- Woody Woodpecker
- The Hippopotamus Song
- Bring Me Sunshine
- Happiness
- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
Best of the Fifties
Released 2003- Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
- Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody
- In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening
- Get Happy
- You Keep Me Swingin'
- Side by Side
- Bell Bottom Blues
- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
- Mister Sandman
- Pickin' a Chicken
- A Blossom Fell
- All of You
- Two Sleepy People
- Because You're Mine
- Unchained Melody
- How Wonderful to Know (feat. The Geoff Love Orchestra)
- Look at That Girl
- Garden of Eden
Hello Children Everywhere
Released 2002- Nellie the Elephant
- The Runaway Train
- In the Middle of the House
- Grandfather's Clock
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- Puffin' Billy
- All Things Bright and Beautiful
- Robin Hood
- (How Much Is) That Doggy in the Window
- I've Lost My Mummy (Rolf Harris)
- The Laughing Policeman
- My Boomerang Won't Come Back
- You're a Pink Toothbrush
- I Tawt I Taw a Puddy-Tat
- Teddy Bears Picninc
- Ballad of Davy Crockett
- The Hippopotamus Song
- Jake the Peg
- Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the Sea
- Woody Woodpecker
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
- The Ugly Duckling
- I Know an Old Lady
- The Bee Song
- When I See an Elephant Fly
Junior Choice - Volume 1
Released 1990- Nellie The Elephant
- The Runaway Train
- Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer
- Robin Hood
- I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat
- Ernie (Fastest Milkman In The West)
- I've Lost My Mummy
- My Boomerang Won't Come Back
- Little Boy Fishin'
- The Laughing Policeman
- Teddy Bears Picnic
- You're A Pink Toothbrush
- Mr Custer
- Woody Woodpecker
- Ragtime Cowboy Joe
- Buckingham Palace
- Jake The Peg
- The Hippopotimus Song
- Ballad of Davy Crocket
- Grandad
Hello Children... Everywhere
Released 1988- Puffin Billy
- Nellie the Elephant
- I Know an Old Lady
- (How Much Is) That Doggy in the Window
- The Runaway Train
- Swedish Rhapsody
- Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea
- Home on the Range
- All Things Bright & Beautiful
- Little Red Monkey
- Where Will the Dimple Be?
- The King's New Clothes
- You're a Pink Toothbrush
- Black Hills of Dakota
- Bluebelll Polka
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- (The) Ballad of Davy Crockett
- Mister Cuckoo (Sing Your Song)
- Me and My Teddy Bear
- Little White Duck
- Buckingham Palace
- Typewriter Song
- I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat
The Fabulous Fifties
- Mule Train
- I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
- The Wedding Samba
- I Remember the Cornfields
- You're Breaking My Heart
- The Old Piano Roll Blues
- The French Can-Can Polka
- Sentimental Me
- Bewitched
- Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
- If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake
- Tenessee Waltz
- Cherry Stones
- Let's Do It Again
- Dear Hearts and Gentle People
- Christmas in Killarney
- Ferry Boat Inn
- On Top of Old Smokey
- Any Time
- Too Young
- Jezebel
- The Petite Waltz
- My Heart Cries for You
- Because of You
- The Roving Kind
- Shrimp Boats
- Cold, Cold Hearts
- Mary Rose
- Come On-A My House
- My Truly, Truly Fair
- Rose, Rose, I Love You
- Unless
I Remember You
- That Old Black Magic
- Nevertheless
- I Remember You
- The Song Is You
- More Than You Know
- I'll See You Again
- Two Sleepy People
- There Goes That Song Again
- It Might as Well Be Spring
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- You Do Something to Me
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- Heart and Soul
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Solomon
- Dinah
- Jeepers Creepers
- Wher or When
- You'll Never Walk Alone
A Time to Remember: 1956
- Be Bop a Lula
- Sixteen Tons
- Teach You to Rock
- Experiments With Mice
- Tumbling Tumbleweeds
- Zambesi
- Robin Hood
- Cindy Oh Cindy
- No Other Love
- Blueberry Hill
- You Are My First Love
- Memories Are Made of This
- Pickin' a Chicken
- Too Young to Go Steady
- Bad Penny Blues
- The Cat Came Back
- Why Do Fools Fall in Love
- Rock Island Line
- Hot Diggity
- True Love
100% Television Themes
- Time Tunnel
- Streets Of San Francisco
- Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo
- Flipper
- Magnum, P.I.
- Rin Tin Tin
- Tarzan
- Star Trek
- Daktari
- The Men From Shiloh
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Bonanza
- Miami Vice
- Batman
- Kojak
- Daniel Boone
- Rockford Files
- Spiderman
- The Flintstones
- Pink Panther
- Popeye
- Road Runner
- Hawaii Five-O
- Hart to Hart
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Peter Gunn
- Mannix
- Mission Impossible
- Charlie's Angels
- Perry Mason
- Dynasty
- Cannon
- Dallas
- The Partridge Family
- Mr. Ed
- The Courtship Of Eddie's Father
- General Hospital
- The Odd Couple
- The Nanny
- The Addams Family
- Family Affair
- The Monkees
- Thirtysomething
- Johnny Carson's Tonight Show
- The Tracey Ullman Show
- This is Tom Jones
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- The Dean Martin Show
Golden Hits of 1951
- Undecided
- Come on-A My House
- Because of You
- Too Young
- The Loveliest Night of the Year
- Jezebel
- Sparrow in the Treetop
- Hot Canary
- In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening
- My Truly, Truly Fair
- Shrimp Boats
- Unforgettable
- Little White Cloud That Cried
- The Gypsy Fiddler
- Tennessee Waltz
- Mockin' Bird Hill
- Syncopated Clock
- Gone Fishin'
- Aba Daba Honeymoon
- On Top of Old Smokey
- Allentown Jail
- Black and White Rag
- Forty Fahsend Fevvers on a Frush
- Oh What a Face!
- Barwick Green
Hits of the 50's
- Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
- Side Saddle
- Dragnet
- Big Man
- Zambesi
- Do It Again
- Isn't This a Lovely Day
- Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
- Theme From "Man With the Golden Arm"
- Robin Hood
- Tom Dooley
- Our Love Is Here to Stay
- Anything Goes (feat. The Count Basie Orchestra)
- Terry's Theme From "Limelight"
- Unchained Melody
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Happiness Street
- Look at the Girls
Born: 1920-12-12
Died: 1986-02-01
Any Time
by: Riders In The SkyAny time you're feeling lonely
Any time you're feeling blue
Any time you feel downhearted
That will prove your love for me is true
Any time you're thinking about me
That's the time I'll think of you
Any time you say, you want me back again
That is the time I'll come back home to you
Any time you're feeling lonely
Any time you're feeling blue
Any time you feel downhearted
That will prove your love for me is true
Any time will be the right time
Any time that all will do
Any time, you say you want me back again
That is the time I'll come back home to you