- See also Prof Sir Michael Berry
Michael Victor Berry , is a mathematical physicist at the University of Bristol.He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1982 and knighted in 1996. From 2006 he has been Editor of the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society.He is famous among other things for the Berry phase, a...
, the physicist.
Mike Berry (born
Michael Hubert Bourne, 24 September 1942,
NorthamptonNorthampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. It is about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, and lies on the River Nene...
,
NorthamptonshireNorthamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
) is an
EnglishThe English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and singer, best known for his appearances as Mr. Spooner on the
British sitcomA British sitcom is a situation comedy produced in the United Kingdom. Like sitcoms in most other countries, they tend to be based around a family, workplace or other institution where a group of contrasting characters are brought together each episode. A common factor is the exploration of social...
,
Are You Being Served?Are You Being Served? was a British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. It was set in the men's and women's departments of Grace Brothers, a large, fictional London department store. It was written mainly by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, with contributions by Michael Knowles and John Chapman...
.
He had three
hitA hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
s in the 1960s in the
UK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...
(notably "Tribute To Buddy Holly"). His first
singleIn music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats.-History:...
s were
producedIn the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...
by
Joe MeekJoe Meek was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter...
.
In the mid-1970s he returned to the charts in the Netherlands and Belgium, as
pirate radioPirate radio is illegal or unregulated radio transmission. Its etymology can be traced to the unlicensed nature of the transmission, but historically there has been occasional but notable use of sea vessels – fitting the most common perception of a pirate – as broadcasting bases...
station
Radio Mi AmigoRadio Caroline is the name of several broadcasting ventures situated in several countries and from ships in territorial or international waters. Its name originated with fashion and society magazine editor Beatrix Miller as early as December 1961, but the first attempt to use the name for radio...
played his new record material, released on Dutch record label Pink Elephant Records.
- See also Prof Sir Michael Berry
Michael Victor Berry , is a mathematical physicist at the University of Bristol.He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1982 and knighted in 1996. From 2006 he has been Editor of the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society.He is famous among other things for the Berry phase, a...
, the physicist.
Mike Berry (born
Michael Hubert Bourne, 24 September 1942,
NorthamptonNorthampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. It is about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, and lies on the River Nene...
,
NorthamptonshireNorthamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
) is an
EnglishThe English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and singer, best known for his appearances as Mr. Spooner on the
British sitcomA British sitcom is a situation comedy produced in the United Kingdom. Like sitcoms in most other countries, they tend to be based around a family, workplace or other institution where a group of contrasting characters are brought together each episode. A common factor is the exploration of social...
,
Are You Being Served?Are You Being Served? was a British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. It was set in the men's and women's departments of Grace Brothers, a large, fictional London department store. It was written mainly by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, with contributions by Michael Knowles and John Chapman...
.
He had three
hitA hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
s in the 1960s in the
UK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...
(notably "Tribute To Buddy Holly"). His first
singleIn music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats.-History:...
s were
producedIn the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...
by
Joe MeekJoe Meek was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter...
.
In the mid-1970s he returned to the charts in the Netherlands and Belgium, as
pirate radioPirate radio is illegal or unregulated radio transmission. Its etymology can be traced to the unlicensed nature of the transmission, but historically there has been occasional but notable use of sea vessels – fitting the most common perception of a pirate – as broadcasting bases...
station
Radio Mi AmigoRadio Caroline is the name of several broadcasting ventures situated in several countries and from ships in territorial or international waters. Its name originated with fashion and society magazine editor Beatrix Miller as early as December 1961, but the first attempt to use the name for radio...
played his new record material, released on Dutch record label Pink Elephant Records. "
Don't Be Cruel"Don't Be Cruel" was originally the A side of RCA single 47-6604, with "Hound Dog" on the B-side, although both sides became chart-toppers, RCA reissuing the single in later decades as double A-side...
" made #14 in the
Dutch Top 40The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the pirate radio channel Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the pirate radio channel was forced to stop. Joost den Draaijer was the initiator of...
in May, 1975. His next record, a remake of his 1960 debut song "Tribute to Buddy Holly", hit #2 in October of that same year. In 1977 a song "I'm A Rocker", released on Flemish record label Scramble Records (owned by Radio Mi Amigo DJ Norbert) failed to chart.
In the late 1970s he played Mr. Peters, the father of the two children in the
TVTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
version of the
Worzel GummidgeWorzel Gummidge is a British children's fictional character who originally appeared in a series of books by the novelist Barbara Euphan Todd. A walking, talking scarecrow, Gummidge has a set of interchangeable turnip, mangel worzel and swede heads, each of which suit a particular occasion or endow...
books, along with
Jon PertweeJohn Devon Roland Pertwee , better known as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, where he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974 and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge...
and
Una StubbsUna Stubbs is an English actress and former dancer.-Film and television:Una Stubbs was one of The Dougie Squires Dancers on the British TV music show Cool for Cats in 1956....
. His character, Bert Spooner, replaced
Trevor BannisterTrevor Bannister is an English actor best known for playing Mr. Lucas the sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1979.-Career:...
's Mr. Lucas in
Are You Being Served? in 1981, and stayed until the end of the show's run in 1985.
In 1980, he had a
chartA record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
success in the
UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
, with "The Sunshine Of Your Smile", a
cover versionIn popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of a romantic
songA song is a metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad....
written before the
First World WarWorld War I , also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict which involved most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance...
and produced by
Chas HodgesChas Hodges , is the piano and guitar playing half, and lead vocalist, of the English musical duo, Chas & Dave....
. In 1985, his song "
Everyone's A WallyEveryone's a Wally is a computer game released in 1985 by Mikro-Gen for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. The effective sequel to Pyjamarama, it featured the same hero character, Wally Week, and used an upgraded version of the same game engine. It was authored by Chris Hinsley,...
" was included as the
b-sideA-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
to the video game by Mikro-Gen of the same name. His most recent
CDA Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively, but later it also allowed the preservation of other types of data. Audio CDs have been commercially available since October 1982...
was
About Time Two, recorded in
NashvilleNashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state...
,
TennesseeTennessee is a state located in the Southeastern United States. According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 6,214,888, an increase of nearly 9.5% since 2000. Tennessee is the 14th fastest growing state in the US and is ranked 17th by population. It is ranked 36th by total land area. In...
with
The CricketsThe Crickets are a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day," released in 1957....
.
His most recent
filmFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
work was acting in
Julie and the Cadillacs (1999).
Singles
- "Will You Love Me Tomorrow
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" is the title of a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It has been recorded by many different artists and was ranked among Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at #125.-The Shirelles' version:...
" / "My Baby Doll" (with The OutlawsThe Outlaws were an English instrumental band that recorded in the early 1960s. One time members included Ritchie Blackmore, Chas Hodges, Bobby Graham, Ken Lundgren, Mick Underwood, Reg Hawkins, Billy Kuy and others....
– DeccaDecca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades...
11314 – 01/61)
- "Tribute to Buddy Holly" / "What's the Matter" (with The Outlaws – HMV 912 – 11/61) - UK
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...
No. 24
- "It's Just a Matter of Time" / "Little Boy Blue" (with The Admirals (Outlaws) – HMV 979 – 04/62)
- "Every Little Kiss" / "How Many Times" (HMV 1042 – 06/62)
- "Don't You Think it's Time" / "Loneliness" (with The Outlaws – HMV 1104 – 12/62) - UK No. 6
- "My Little Baby" / "You'll Do It You'll Fall in Love" (with The Outlaws – HMV 1142 – 04/63) - UK No. 34
- "It Really Doesn't Matter" / "Try a Little Bit Harder" (HMV 1194 – 06/63)
- "Intro" / "Brown Eyed Handsome Man
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man" is a rock and roll song by Chuck Berry, which was originally released in 1956 as the B side to "Too Much Monkey Business". It was also included on Berry's 1957 debut album After School Session. The song title was also used as the title of a biography of Berry.-Relevance...
" (Graham Dean / The Innocents - ColumbiaColumbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of notable singers,...
1536 – 1963)
- "My Little Baby" / "More Than I Can Say" (with The Innocents – Columbia 1536 – 1963)
- "La Bamba
"La Bamba" is a Mexican folk song, originally from the state of Veracruz, best known from a 1958 adaptation by Ritchie Valens, a top 40 hit in the U.S. charts and one of early rock and roll's best-known songs.-Traditional origins:...
" / "Don't You Think it's Time" (with The Innocents – Columbia 1536 – 1963)
- "On My Mind" / "This Little Girl" (with The Innocents – HMV 1257 – 01/64)
- "Lovesick" / "Letters of Love" (with The Innocents – HMV 1284 – 03/64)
- "Who Will It Be" / "Talk" (with The Innocents – HMV 1314 – 06/64)
- "Two Lovers" / "Don't Try to Stand in My Way" (HMV 1362 – 11/64)
- "That's All I Ever Want from You" / "She Didn't Care" (HMV 1449 – 07/65)
- "It Comes and Goes" / "Gonna Fall in Love" (HMV 1484 – 11/65)
- "Warm Baby" / "Just Thought I´d Phone" (HMV 1530 – 05/66)
- "Raining In My Heart
"Raining in My Heart" is a popular rock and roll ballad recorded by Buddy Holly with the orchestral backing by Dick Jacobs. The music and lyrics are written by the songwriting team of Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant. It was released as a single on Coral Records in 1959, peaking at #88 on the...
" / "Eyes" (PolydorPolydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used, as an export label, in 1924, the British and German branches...
56182 – 08/67)
- "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" / "Alice
-Books and comics:* Alice!, a webcomic by Michael McKay-Flaming* Alice 19th, a manga series, written by Yū Watase* Gakuen Alice/Alice Academy, a manga series, written by Tachibana Higuchi* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a book by Lewis Carroll...
" (D-Metronome – 1967)
- "Don't Be Cruel
"Don't Be Cruel" was originally the A side of RCA single 47-6604, with "Hound Dog" on the B-side, although both sides became chart-toppers, RCA reissuing the single in later decades as double A-side...
" / "It's All Over" (Pink Elephant Records - 1975)
- "Tribute to Buddy Holly" (remake) / "Dial Me Up" (Pink Elephant Records - 1975)
- "I'm a rocker" / "It's a Hard Hard Hard World" (Scramble Records - 1977)
- "Don't Ever Change" (Polydor
Polydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used, as an export label, in 1924, the British and German branches...
) 1978
- "The Sunshine Of Your Smile" (Polydor - 1980) - UK No. 9
- "If I Could Only Makie You Care" (Polydor - 1980) - UK No. 37
- "Memories" (Polydor - 1981) - UK No. 55
- "Diana" (Polydor
Polydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used, as an export label, in 1924, the British and German branches...
) 1981
- "What'll I Do" (Polydor
Polydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used, as an export label, in 1924, the British and German branches...
) 1982
- "Hi There Darlin'! Merry Christmas" (Mr. Bert Spooner with instrumental accompaniment by Mike Berry & The Outlaws - Rollercoaster Records 2007)
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