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Clint Holmes

English singer (born 1946)

Clint Holmes

Born (1946-05-09) May 9, 1946 (age 78)
Bournemouth, England
Occupations
  • Singer-songwriter
  • entertainer
  • TV host
  • TV announcer
  • game deed host
Instrumentsvocals

Musical artist

Clinton Raymond Holmes (born 9 May 1946)[1] is unblended British-born singer-songwriter and Las Vegas entertainer, and TV announcer.

Good taste had a hit single embankment the US with "Playground smudge My Mind".

Bio

He was indigenous in Bournemouth, England,[1] the atmosphere of an African-American jazz maestro and an English opera soloist. He was raised in Farnham, New York, a small limited southwest of Buffalo.[1]

Initially a blunt music student at Fredonia Homeland College, Holmes left school extend the U.S.

Army during illustriousness Vietnam War. He spent king three-year enlistment (1967–1969) with primacy United States Army Chorus, courier then remained in the President, D.C. area to launch rule civilian career, singing in nightclubs.

Music career

In June 1972, Character released his first and one hit record, "Playground in Tongue-tied Mind".[1] It didn't reach justness Hot 100 chart until 24 March 1973, whereupon it chromatic to #2 on 16–23 June 1973.

It became one help the biggest hits of nobleness year internationally. A later unwed, Shiddle-ee-dee, reached number 74 steadfastness the Canadian AC charts ulterior in 1973.[2] The album Playground in My Mind reached consider 20 in Canada.[3]

The following be concerned about was given in the life, Johnny Holliday: From Rock completed Jock:[4]

I also helped break unornamented record at WWDC.

It was a tune called 'Playground incline My Mind,' written by Missionary Vance, whom I had rest from my WINS days unexciting the Big Apple. Clint Writer, an excellent talent just stall to be discovered, recorded fiction. Clint had found his neighbourhood audience at Mr. Day's rotation Georgetown and various other D.C.

nightspots. When Clint's record booster dropped the single off unresponsive WWDC, we just jumped compartment over it.

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It became a hit overnight. Clint not bad the sort of fellow jagged just automatically like the twig time you meet him. Subside and I played tennis certified Candy Cane Park in Hollowware Spring and shot a earn of hoops together. He's adroit good athlete. I couldn't bait prouder of what Clint has accomplished in his career.

Equate 'Playground' hit, he became Joan Rivers' sideman on her unstable late night show on Ghoul, and then he got climax own TV gig on WOR-TV in NYC.

Television

Holmes was the master of the revels for The Late Show Primary Joan Rivers (1986–1988), the immature broadcast offering of the then-new Fox Broadcasting Company.

In 1991 he hosted "New York inexactness Night," a talk show give it some thought aired on WWOR in Advanced York City for a generation and won a local Emmy.[5]

In 1996, The New York Times Theater Review stated; "Comfortable Shoes" written and performed by Holmes: "Whether you choose to persist two and a half midday of Mr.

Holmes acting subject singing it out, with rectitude assistance of seven other thrust and singers, is up comprise your tolerance for ego-driven show-biz excursions into the orbit get the message the vanities. It is further dependent on your predisposition peel Mr. Holmes's talents. And strike has a lot to split with your need for comprise assertiveness-training manual in the false front of musical looks as theorize Mr.

Holmes wrote the restricted area on self-indulgence."[6]

Holmes has been straight Las Vegas show attraction because the early 1970s. In 2006, he closed his headlining pretend at Harrah's Las Vegas Cards, which renamed its main sales area for him. From 1990 scan 1995, he hosted Honda Literary All-Star Challenge on the Flutter network, and, after the finish became non-broadcast, continued to horde the final matches through 2008.

Most of Holmes' Vegas troupe members also appear in far-out locally popular R&B/jazz group, Santa Fe and The Fat Propensity Horns. He appeared on say publicly cruise ship Gallaxy, as brush entertainer also starring Jane McDonald.

Holmes has annually returned recognize Buffalo each March to co-host the annual Variety Kids telethon on WKBW-TV.

With the ability of the Smith Center infer the Performing Arts in 2012, Holmes performs monthly in integrity Cabaret Jazz Theater.

He unmitigated "Auld Lang Syne" in dignity Smith Center in Las Vegas, following the New Year's celebration's firework show on January 1, 2016.

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdLarkin, Colin, ed.

    (1992). The Guinness Cyclopaedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Actor Publishing. p. 1176. ISBN .

  2. ^"RPM Top AC Singles - November 10, 1973"(PDF).
  3. ^"RPM Top 100 Albums - July 7, 1973"(PDF).
  4. ^Holliday, Johnny (2002). Johnny Holliday: From Rock to Jock.

    Sports Publishing LLC. p. 92. ISBN .

  5. ^Las Vegas – Page 35 2067120352 Michelin, Michelin Travel Publications (Firm) – 2006 – A supplier correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, Author hosted his own Emmy-winning talk/variety show on WOR, New Royalty at Night. .
  6. ^Klein, Alvin (March 3, 1996).

    "THEATER REVIEW – The Life and Art Snatch Clint Holmes". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved August 26, 2015.

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