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So the records I had with me from that trip were Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key Of Life, Johnny “Guitar” Watson's Ain’t That A Bitch, Deniece Williams’ Free, Parliament… they all became the soundtrack to my existence. My brother and I travelled back by ourselves from there to Sweden, from the sunshine into the dark, cold weirdness of Sweden. It broke my heart but those records kept me alive because I was love sick. I had my first boyfriend there, fell in love for the first time and the stack of records I brought back from there when I had to go back to Sweden to stay with our grandparents was an important bunch for me. Then, when I was 11, I went to live with my family in LA, in the Compton area. Hush my darling dont fear my darling the lion sleeps tonight. Hush my darling dont cry my darling the lion sleeps tonight. Near the village the peaceful village the lion sleeps tonight. I was surrounded by all my dad’s friends, jazz artists like Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane and his records, but I bought a Donny Osmond solo record when I was about ten, that’s what everybody I went to school with was listening to. In the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight. The first record I bought which was mine though, you won’t believe, was a Donny Osmond record. The Karl Denver Trio, all in fine voice, at the Peterborough Country Music Festival (UK) 1983 si nging Rose Marie & Love me with all your heart.Those records kept me alive because I was love sick (info mainly from Dave Laing, The Guardian, 1998) Karl Denver died of a brain tumor a few days after his 67th birthday at the end of 1998 although Karl had claimed that he was born during 1934- probably because he liked to appear younger than he really was.
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This made no impact on the psyche of the acid house generation, however, and Denver returned to the cabaret circuit. There was a brief, unexpected return to the charts in 1989 when the eccentric Happy Mondays had them guesting on their track Lazyitis and on an updated recording of Wimoweh on the fashionable Factory label. Although The Karl Denver Trio faded from the media limelight, they continued to perform in cabaret at home and overseas.
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There were small hits for the Trio in 1964, but their music sounded decidedly old-fashioned compared with that of the Fab Four and the numerous beat groups who now dominated the pop scene. Denver's song "Never Goodbye" was an entry in A Song for Europe in 1962.
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The Karl Denver Trio version displayed Denver's vocal gymnastics to full effect and its success propelled the group into the upper reaches of British show business. Taking the stage name Karl Denver, he appeared on radio and television, and the prestigious Grand Ole Opry show, before the immigration department caught up with him and he was deported in 1959.ĭenver claimed to have discovered the song in South Africa during his days as a seaman but it had already been a hit in the hands of American folk group The Weavers, and The Tokens had re-recorded it with new lyrics as The Lion Sleeps Tonight. By this time he had set his sights on a career as a singer, and he jumped ship in the United States and made for Nashville, the centre of country and western music. After being discharged from the army he again went to sea. Wounded, he practised guitar during his convalescence and developed a taste for country and folk music. In 1951 he enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and fought in the Korean war. Karl recorded 155 tracks commercially during a career spanning five decades, the majority of which were in his favoured music genre - ‘countryĭenver left school at 15 to join the Norwegian merchant navy. He was a familiar figure on both radio and the concert stage, performing in what one reviewer called his 'eardrum piercing, multi-octave range'. KARL DENVER TRIO Wimoweh (Original 1962 UK Cromwell four-page fold-out sheet music folio for the song adapted and arranged by Paul Campbell with new English lyrics by Roy Ilene, recorded by The Karl Denver Trio on Decca Records.
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Karl Denver (born Angus Murdo McKenzie, 16 December 1931, Springburn, Glasgow - died 21 December 1998,) was a Scottish singer, who during the early 1960s had a series of UK hit singles.