DICKIE VALENTINE – "Finger Of Suspicion"

Light entertainment watch: A few Dickie Valentine television appearances survive;

THE ANNE SHELTON SHOW: with Joe Lynch, Terry Scott, Deryck Guyler, Dickie Valentine, Libby Morris (1959)
THE ARTHUR HAYNES SHOW: with Dickie Valentine (1963)

BIG NIGHT OUT: with Mike and Bernie Winters (Hosts), Lionel Blair and his Dancers, David Nixon, Dickie Valentine, Susan Maughan, Saveen with Daisy May & Company (1963)

BIG NIGHT OUT: with Mike and Bernie Winters (Hosts), Lionel Blair and his Dancers, David Hamilton (Voice Over Opening Credits), The ABC Television Showband, Vera Lynn, Dickie Valentine, Digby Wolfe, Jack Haig (1964)

VAL PARNELL’S SPECTACULAR: The Dickie Valentine & Roy Castle Show

VAL PARNELL’S SPECTACULAR: The Dickie Valentine Show (1958)

While all of these are missing;

COMEDY BANDBOX: with Tommy Trinder, Dickie Valentine, The Monarchs, Patsy Ann Noble, Chic Murray and Maidie, Richard Hearne, Bretton Woods, Saveen and Daisy May (1964)

CROWTHER’S IN TOWN: with Mike Yarwood, Sandy Powell, Dickie Valentine, Dilys Watling, Eddie Connor, Alex Welsh Jazz Band (1970)

DAVID NIXON’S COMEDY BANDBOX: with Max Wall, Dickie Valentine, Mike Newman, Ted Durante (1966)

DAVID NIXON’S COMEDY BANDBOX: with Roy Castle, Libby Morris, Dickie Valentine, Jack Douglas (1966)

DRUMBEAT: with The Barry Sisters, The Kingpins, Dickie Valentine (1959)

ENGELBERT: with Dickie Valentine, The Peter Gordeno Dancers, The Mike Sammes Singers, Jack Parnell and his Orchestra (1967)

THE FRANKIE VAUGHAN SHOW: with Hattie Jacques, Dickie Valentine, Ted Rogers (1966)

HERE’S TO THE NEXT TIME: with Cliff Richard, The Drifters, Dickie Valentine, Joan Regan, Lucille Graham, Mike Hall, The Joan Davis Dancers, The Mike Sammes Singers, Arthur Askey, Dickie Henderson (1959)

THE LONDON PALLADIUM SHOW: with Jimmy Tarbuck (Compere), Dave King, Dickie Valentine, Rudi Schweitzer (1966)

THE LONDON PALLADIUM SHOW: with Jack Parnell and his Orchestra, The Palladium Dancers, The Mike Sammes Singers, Bob Monkhouse, Cilla Black, Dickie Valentine, Ray Fell, Erroll Garner (1967)

THE LONDON PALLADIUM SHOW: with Jack Parnell and his Orchestra, The Palladium Dancers, The Mike Sammes Singers, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Dave Allen, Dickie Valentine, Will Gaines (1967)

MAGGIE’S PLACE: with Clodagh Rodgers, Dickie Valentine, Denny Willis, Kevin Colson (1970)

OH BOY!: with Tony Hall, Dickie Valentine, Marty Wilde, The Dallas Boys, Cherry Wainer, Neville Taylor and the Cutters, ‘Cuddly’ Dudley, Red Price, Tony Sheridan, Gerry Dorsey (1959)

SHOWTIME: with David Nixon, Gloria De Haven, Dickie Valentine (1961)

SIX-FIVE SPECIAL: with Chris Barber’s Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson, Don Lang and his Frantic Five, Clive Lythgoe, Dickie Valentine (1957)

SIX-FIVE SPECIAL: with Patti Lewis, Don Lang and his Frantic Five, The Jazz Couriers with Ronnie Scott & Tubby Hayes, Jim Dale, Spike Milligan, Dickie Valentine (1957)

SUNDAY NIGHT AT BLACKPOOL–MEET THE STARS: with Dickie Valentine, Shirley Bassey (1957)

SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM (VAL PARNELL’S …..): with The London Palladium Girls, Bruce Forsyth, The London Palladium Orchestra, Dickie Valentine, Patachou (1955)

THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS: with Benny Hill, Dickie Valentine, Jess Conrad (1961)

THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS: with Brian Matthew, Dickie Valentine, Jet Harris & Tony Meehan, The King Brothers, Gene Vincent, Mike Cotton Jazzmen, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Grazina, Ted King (1963)

THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS: with Brian Matthew, Adam Faith, Janice Nicholls, Doug Arthur (Guest Disc Jockey), The Roulettes, Dickie Valentine, Jackie Trent, Manfred Mann, Kris Jensen, Heinz (1964)

THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS: with Brian Matthew, Shirley Bassey, The Searchers, Ayshea, Dickie Valentine (1965)

Also, five of the 14 editions of 1967’s THE DICKIE VALENTINE SHOW are not known to exist.

informative piece there, Thanks for this.its wonderfull to see someone with a like mind.

No, wichita – he did make a couple of rock n roll records, which aren’t that bad really.

I agree that his voice is pretty ordinary, all things considered – but he was adored in pre-rock Britain by armies of screaming girls. A very cosy number, this – remarkable that for a brief time he was still challenging Bill Haley’s records for popularity.

Bob, you need to reply to my emails… 😉

Titles that spring to mind: Dickie Valentine’s Rock n Roll Party (which he later regretted!) and his cover of A Teenager in Love. I haven’t heard any of his Beatles-era recordings and I’d be surprised if any of them were beat-orientated.

My favourite in this vein is Don Lusher’s Rock’n’Roll which, theoretically, is the first British R’n’r 45, but in reality swings less hard than most Ted Heath records.

Indeed, Mutley. It’s quite odd that the songs chosen for the medley weren’t RnR at all… and I too like his Teenager in Love, even if he was approaching 30 at the time.

He also covered Putting on the Style, swing-style though.

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Thanks Mutley – I compiled it! The Donald Peers track surprised me by being, actually – not that bad, if you forget it’s him. The Sal Mineo version is fantastic, though.

Decent job by Dickie, I’d go with a 6/10.

Didn’t Dickie sound rather like Rick Astley, or vice versa?