RONNIE HILTON – "No Other Love"

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Light entertainment watch: Ronnie Hilton was a familiar face on British television in the 1960s. All of these appearances are now missing;

BIG NIGHT OUT: with Mike and Bernie Winters (Hosts), Lionel Blair and his Dancers, Frank Berry, Freddie and the Dreamers, Ronnie Hilton, Adrienne Poster (1965)

DEE TIME: with Paul Jones, Ronnie Hilton, The Kinks (1967)

THE DES O’CONNOR SHOW: with Ronnie Carroll, Ronnie Hilton, Freddie
Davies, Jack Douglas (1966)

NORTHERN SHOWGROUND: with The Beverley Sisters, The George Mitchell Singers, The Ace High Steppers, Albert and Les Ward, Corinne Grey, Sara Luzita, Jack Watson, Joe Lynch, Ronnie Hilton, Jimmy James And Company (1956)

SCOTCH CORNER: with Andy Stewart, Ronnie Hilton (1973)

SHOWTIME: with David Nixon, Stanley Unwin, Ronnie Hilton, Imogene Coca (1959)

SIX-FIVE SPECIAL: with Tony Crombie and his Rockers, Dickie Bennett, Ronnie Hilton, Leonora Mila, Graham Stuart and his Jazz Band, Jackie Collins (1957)

STARS ON SUNDAY: with James Mason, Harry Secombe, Noel Harrison, Ronnie Hilton, Sheila Southern, David Watson (1971)

STARS ON SUNDAY: with Keith Michell, David Hughes, Ronnie Hilton, David Watson, Gracie Fields, The Madrigals (1971)

SUMMER SERENADE: with Stanley Black, Ronnie Hilton, Peter Darrell, Hermione Harvey, Frances Pidgeon (1956)

SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM (VAL PARNELL’S …..): with Bruce Forsyth, The Daily Mirror Disc Festival, Winifred Atwell, Eddie Calvert, Alma Cogan, Lonnie Donegan With His Skiffle Group, Ted Heath, Ronnie Hilton, Ruby Murray, Anne Shelton (1956)

THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS: with Ronnie Hilton, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, George Chisholm and the Tradsters, Cleo Laine, Audrey Jeans, The Bird Twins, The Springfields (1961)

THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS: with The Temperance Seven, Ronnie Hilton, Danny Williams, Michael Hill, Chas McDevitt & Shirley Douglas, The Vernons Girls, The Springfields, Jimmy Young (1961)

THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS: with The King Brothers, Billy Fury, Ronnie Hilton, David Ede, Tony Osbourne, Bobby Shafto, Marie McCann, Bobby Rydell, Ted King (1962)

THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS: with Brian Matthew, Billy Fury, The Springfields, Jet Harris & Tony Meehan, Ronnie Hilton, Maureen Evans, Back O’Town Syncopators, Bobby Vee, Sam Costa (1963)

THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS: with Brian Matthew, Jet Harris & Tony Meehan, Ronnie Hilton, Jimmy Justice, The Overlanders, Johnny Sandon and the Redcaps, Little Peggy March, Carol Deene (1963)

THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS: with Brian Matthew, The Dave Clark Five, Kathy Kirby, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, The Hollies, Ronnie Hilton (1964)

Just a couple of performances survive;

BIG NIGHT OUT: with Mike and Bernie Winters (Hosts), Lionel Blair and his Dancers, Ted Ray, The Kaye Sisters, Dennis Spicer, Ronnie Hilton (1963)

THE DAVID NIXON SHOW: with Freddie Davies, Cleo Laine, Ronnie Hilton, Benny Yorke, Penny Meredith (1972)

The flip is a duet with Alma Cogan, giving her a second number one by default. A lot more fun than the top side (“Wot did i do wrong?” asks Alma in her finest cocker-nee), It’s All Been Done Before is quite sassy, straight out of a musical I’d guess though there isn’t one credited on the label.

Pee Wee Hunt, now there’s an artist name that wouldn’t be happening thesedays. Charlie Kunz had it easy…

A section of Ronnie Hilton’s discography of which you might want to be aware, Jimmy:
1964: Leeds United Calypso b/w Elland Road Baht ‘At
1970: Glory Glory Leeds United b/w We Shall Not Be Moved
1971 (EP): The Lads of Leeds / The Ballad of Billy Bremner / The Tale of Johnny Giles
There’s a pattern there, I’m not quite sure what it is… (although the song “Leeds United” sung by the 1972 Cup Final squad, which reached number 10 while “Metal Guru” was number one, was by Les Reed)

Erithian – I would loved to have seen Hilton’s face when Gary Sprake let dear old Peter Houseman’s feeble shot slip underneath him in the 1970 Cup Final.

Ah, Gary Sprake! You could have devoted an entire “bloopers” show to that magnificent keeper!

According to the VERY FIRST POP ANNUAL, Discland, from 1955:

“Ronnie Hilton’s real name is Adrian Hill. When HMV recording manager Wally Ridley heard it he told me (the Daily Mirror’s Pat Doncaster) ‘We had to change that for the record label… sounded more like an osteopath'”

How intriguing, Rosie, I’d never heard of him. “He saw art therapy as becoming an integral part of the National Health Service” – it really makes you despair, doesn’t it.

I guess Ronnie H became a famous name first, but it was a close thing. Wally Ridley might not have been so damning if Adrian Hill the artist was well known in 1955.

I’d go with a 4/10 for Ronnie. A bit of a chore to listen to imho, but nothing outright bad.