Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. See also About the relationship for the Oscar-winning Rusovitsky chair. See also Prosiben: The legend "FreeSc". Harding Hansen. Wannabe twitter trailblazer. Freelance beer evangelist. Amateur pop culture nerd. Natalie, followed by our four eldest children, bounced onto the stage first, grinning from ear to ear. When I asked her how she'd managed to keep the secret she told me - and the millions watching - that until that very morning not even the kids had known.
Instead of driving them to school, as they'd expected, she had diverted to London. Their change of clothes had been deposited at the studio by her on a previous trip. Alex, at three, was too little to appear, she said, but on the screen Eamonn then flashed a film clip of him singing and plucking on my guitar. I gulped hard to avoid embarrassing tears on television. Still dazed I greeted guest after guest.
My sister, who I hadn't seen for six years; old friends now scattered all over the world; friends from Kenya, who only a few weeks earlier I'd been living with - they, too, had kept the secret; Rolf Harris , my oldest friend in the business; Frank Carson , who gave me my first break; Joan Collins , Chet Atkins, my old university professor and even one of my first pupils from my teaching days in Africa. Had I really done so much, I thought?
Then a bonus surprise! From the wings came Brett and we talked briefly about the nine years he'd spent as part of the family.
Truly a most poignant moment. He was now six foot four, with a handsome beard, and engaged to be married. As he took his seat I reckoned that was the end of the show, but no, sleepy little Alexander toddled out and flung his arms around me.
Then the little ham blew kisses at the audience! As the title music heralded the end of the show, we took the traditional walk to the front of the stage to wave goodbye - there, surrounded by my friends and family, I was overwhelmed by thoughts of where I was, and how it had all begun. From the late '70s into the early '80s, Whittaker continued to score minor chart entries in the U. He also addressed his non-English-speaking audience by singing phonetically in other languages, releasing Mein Deutsches Album in West Germany in , for example.
In , he scored a number one hit in West Germany with "Albany," and the same year he returned to Kenya for the first time in two decades, commemorating the occasion with the album and documentary In Kenya: A Musical Safari.
He had toured the U. In the late '70s, he had launched his own Tembo Records company tembo is the word for elephant in Swahili. Tembo licensed his recordings to Main Street Records in the U. But by , he was back to releasing his records through RCA in the U. Often, his albums repackaged older recordings with perhaps one or two new tracks. Thus, if he did make a new album, it was an event. Contains all new material! After completing a tour of Germany by then his strongest market in , a year-old Whittaker announced his retirement from performing and settled down with his wife of 37 years in Ireland.
Like many musical performers, however, he was unable to hold to this declaration and was back on tour in Germany in , with plans for more recordings and concerts planned years ahead. His steady rise in popularity was bolstered by a successful appearance at the Knokke music festival in Belgium in By learning the translation of his songs phonetically, he has taken the trouble to record especially for his German audience.
This growing band of admirers spread in time to the Antipodes and Canada, yet he had still to crack the UK market. Licensed from Muze. Detailed Site Map of Links. Filter Results. Roger Whittaker. Add to Cart.
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