| Paddy
Roberts: Songwriter Born 1910
in South Africa
Died:Sept 1975 in UK
A former lawyer in SA, he was in the RAF in WW2,
and after the war was a pilot with BOAC.
Held offices in the Performing Rights Society and
the Song Writers Guild.
His LPs include:
"Paddy Roberts at the Blue Angel"
(Live) Decca 1961
"The Best of Paddy Roberts" MFP/EMI
1968
His many hit songs in the 1950's include:
- The Book (David Whitfield)
- Lay Down Your Arms(Anne Shelton)
- Meet Me on the Corner(Max Bygraves)
- Pickin' a Chicken (Eve Boswell)
- Evermore (Ruby Murray)
- Softly Softly (Ruby Murray)
- Johnny is the boy for Me
- It's a Boy
- That Dear Old Gentleman
- Send For Me
- The Three Galleons
- Ballad of Bethnal Green
- The Belle of Barking Creek
- The Big Deejay
- T he Lavender Cowboy
His songs for Films include:
Magic Carpet (from "No Time for Tears")
Title Song for "The Heart of a Man"
(Frankie Vaughan)
You Are My First Love (from "Its Great to be
Young")
I' m in Love for the Very First Time (from
"An Alligator Named Daisy")
Several songs for "The Good Companions"
(1957)
Strictly
for Grown-Ups
Publisher's
blurb: "The somewhat low and twisted songs
in this collection are the mutterings of the
leader of the Victorian 'beat' generation, and
the original angry old man.
Paddy (Methuselah) Roberts is an ageing and
rather passé; words and music man; a square in
musical circles, unable to 'dig' the trends of
today's jungle music, and who is happiest when
reminiscing about his brief hours of glory
(spread over a twenty-year period) when he wrote
such commonplace doodles as "Horsey
Horsey", "Softly Softly",
"Lay Down Your Arms", "Meet Me On
the Corner", "Pickin' A Chicken",
etc., which disappointed his dear old
intellectual mother but pleased his local bank
manager. Among his hobbies is collecting
antiques, and his most prized possession is
himself.
This is probably the dear old man's last fling
and is published more in pity than in hope. The
author will be happy to supply a list of his
other works which are not obtainable from your
local music dealer." 1959
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