TV Pop Diaries
Pop Music on British Television 1955 -
Despite having many big hits in the UK, Australia and even in America in the pre-
His one off special for Rediffusion in March 1965 would not lead to a series, but
in October that year ATV finally offered him a short series of thirty-
Considering his British chart career was over by this time offering him a series
appeared odd, but he was given a prime time spot of 9.10 -
He would be backed by The Mike Sammes Singers, The Pamela Devis Dancers (including Ifield's soon to be wife Gillian Bowden) and Jack Parnell and his orchestra.
It would be another two years before he was invited back, but in the meantime the
whole Tom Jones/Engelbert Humperdinck singer-
He explained to the Daily Express in 1974 "The truth is I'm not very fond of TV. I used to get very nervous doing these series without an audience. It was like performing in a vacuum."
FRANK IFIELD SINGS...
ATV
20th October 1965 -
15th December 1967 -