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Cliff Adams Singers, the Glossary

The Cliff Adams Singers were a British male/female vocal group, known for ballads and novelty songs, and especially their regular performances on BBC Radio from the 1950s onwards.^[1]

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British vocal groups

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).

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Actor

An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

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Ambrose (bandleader)

Benjamin Baruch Ambrose (11 September 1896 – 11 June 1971), known professionally as Ambrose, was an English bandleader and violinist.

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Anita Harris

Anita Madeleine Harris (born 3 June 1942) is an English actress, singer and entertainer.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Bassett's

George Bassett & Co., known simply as Bassett's, was an English confectionery company and brand.

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BBC Radio

BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the public service broadcast outlet British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927).

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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Records

BBC Records was a division of the BBC founded in 1967 to commercially exploit the corporation's output for radio and television for both educational and domestic use.

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Big band

A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Cheapside

Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London, England, which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Columbia Graphophone Company

Columbia Graphophone Co.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one performer or by several performers.

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Conscription

Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.

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Coventry Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael, commonly known as Coventry Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry within the Church of England.

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Cyril Stapleton

Cyril Stapleton (31 December 1914 – 25 February 1974) was an English violinist and jazz bandleader.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Dick James

Dick James (born Reginald Leon Isaac Vapnick; 12 December 1920 – 1 February 1986) was a British music publisher and singer.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.

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Easy listening

Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Fry's Turkish Delight

Fry's Turkish Delight is a chocolate bar made by Cadbury.

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Hit song

A hit song, also known as a hit record, hit single or simply hit, is a recorded song or instrumental that becomes broadly popular or well-known.

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Instrumental

An instrumental or instrumental song is music normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting.

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Jack Emblow

Jack Alexander Emblow (born 27 June 1930) is a British jazz accordionist who is best known for his musical work accompanying the Cliff Adams Singers on BBC Radio.

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Jingle

A jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses.

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Liza of Lambeth

Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while he was a medical student and obstetric clerk at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth, then a working-class district of London.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Medley (music)

In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces played one after another, sometimes overlapping.

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Milk Tray

Milk Tray is a brand of boxed chocolates currently manufactured by Cadbury.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Musician

A musician is one who composes, conducts, or performs music.

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Novelty song

A novelty song is a type of song built upon some form of novel concept, such as a gimmick, a piece of humor, or a sample of popular culture.

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Old MacDonald Had a Farm

"Old MacDonald Had a Farm" (sometimes shortened to Old MacDonald) is a traditional children's song and nursery rhyme about a farmer and the various animals he keeps.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Putney Vale Cemetery

Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium in southwest London is located in Putney Vale, surrounded by Putney Heath and Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park.

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Pye Records

Pye Records was a British record label.

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Radio broadcasting

Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.

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Ronald E. J. Milne

(Capt.) Ronald Edwin James Milne (11 April, 1921 – 9 February, 2014) was a British-born singer and band director.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Sheet music

Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.

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Sing Something Simple

Sing Something Simple was a half-hour radio programme, which featured Cliff Adams and The Cliff Adams Singers, with Jack Emblow on accordion.

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Smash (instant mashed potato)

Smash is a brand of Instant mashed potatoes in the United Kingdom.

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Song

A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice.

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Southwark

Southwark is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark.

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St Mary-le-Bow

The Church of St Mary-le-Bow is a Church of England parish church in the City of London, England.

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Strand (cigarette)

Strand was a British brand of cigarettes which was owned and manufactured by W.D. & H.O. Wills (a now defunct subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco).

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Ted Heath (bandleader)

George Edward Heath (30 March 1902 – 18 November 1969) was a British musician and big band leader.

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Television advertisement

A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers were an American rock duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing.

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The Stargazers (vocal ensemble)

The Stargazers were a British vocal group, jointly founded in 1949 by Cliff Adams and Ronnie Milne.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre.

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Traditional pop

Traditional pop (also known as classic pop and pre-rock and roll pop) is Western pop music that generally pre-dates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Adams_Singers

Also known as Cliff Adams.

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British vocal groups

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