Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson

Pearl Lavinia Carr (born 2 November 1923, Exmouth, Devon) and Edward Victor Johnson (born 4 September 1920, Surbiton) were a popular English husband-and-wife team of entertainers during the 1950s and early 1960s.

Early days

They were both successful solo singers before their marriage in 1955. Pearl Carr had been lead singer with The Keynotes, who had two UK hits in 1956 with Dave King: "Memories Are Made Of This" (#5) and "You Can't Be True To Two" (#11)cite book
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year= 2006
title= British Hit Singles & Albums
edition= 19th
publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
location= London
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Teddy Johnson had led his own teenage band, was a professional drummer and a recording artist for Columbia in the early fifties. He also was a DJ on Radio Luxembourg and had appeared in TV shows like the BBC's children's favourite, "Crackerjack".

Joint success

Together they had some music success, as well as acting honours.

Carr and Johnson were frequently on UK television light entertainment programmes, such as "The Winifred Atwell Show" as well as "Big Night Out" and "Blackpool Night Out". They represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 and finished second with the song, "Sing, Little Birdie". This peaked at #12 on the UK Singles Chartcite book
first= David
last= Roberts
year= 2006
title= British Hit Singles & Albums
edition= 19th
publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
location= London
pages= p. 95
id= ISBN 1-904994-10-5] . They also tried to represent United Kingdom again in 1960 entering two songs into the pre-selection, however only one, "Pickin' Petals", made the final. It was up against Teddy's own brother, Bryan Johnson. In the end Bryan won through, duly representing the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960. He also came second, with the song "Looking High, High, High."

Carr and Johnson released another single the following year entitled, "How Wonderful To Know", which charted at #23 in the UK.

In 1986, the two featured on a dedicated episode of "This Is Your Life" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0721885/] .

After this success finished they appeared in a West End revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical, "Follies".

ee also

*United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
*List of British pop musicians of the 1950s
*List of British pop musicians of the 1960s

External links

* [http://www.esctoday.com/annual/songinfo.php?contest=276&song=10 Biography and "Sing, Little Birdie" song lyrics]
* [http://www.diggiloo.net/?info.1959uk Eurovision Song Contest details website]

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