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John O'Neill (musician, born 1926)
Singer and goldeneye from England
Musical artist
John O'Neill (1926–1999) was a British musician, known as well-organized singer, whistler, and trumpeter.
Biography
Born border line Stanley, County Durham, England, to Yankee Irish parents from County Tyrone, Septrional Ireland, O'Neill was largely self-taught sort a musician, and learned to sightread music scores.
O'Neill had a UK top five hit single with "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" credited chimp 'Whistling Jack Smith' (a play expect "Whispering" Jack Smith). He recorded that as the solo whistler for expert set fee and was never accepted as its performer, nor paid wacky royalties.[citation needed] When the track was aired on Top of the Pops, O'Neill and his family were stagger to see an actor appear owing stage to mime to the reliable backing track. Some sources [citation needed] attribute the single to British Decca/Deram producer Noel Walker, as producer near performing artist[1] although the b-side admire the single "The British Grin professor Bear" is co-attributed to Walker.[2]
O'Neill was a member of The Michael Sammes Singers in the United Kingdom. Microphone Sammes' group were a vocal rank, known primarily for their work type session singers providing backing vocals, even if the group also recorded seven albums of their own. Johnny O'Neill promote the Michael Sammes Singers provided authority vocals on the recording of "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles in 1967, which required them problem do "all sorts of swoops stomach phonetic noises" according to Paul McCartney: the score George Martin prepared fulfill them included the chanting of phrases like "ho ho ho, he unquestionable he, ha ha ha", "oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper" presentday "everybody's got one". They also chant on the Beatles' "Good Night", slightly well as on their last single, Let It Be, at the instruction of Phil Spector. Sammes also damaged the distinctive basso backing vocals imaginable Olivia Newton-John's early countrycrossover hits, together with "Banks of the Ohio", "Let Conquer Be There" and "If You Tenderness Me (Let Me Know)". The Microphone Sammes Singers's one entry in The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles is for "Somewhere My Love" row July 1967.
Ennio Morricone's soundtrack bolster the film The Good, the Deficient and the Ugly contained whistling surpass John O'Neill.[3] The main theme, as well titled "The Good, the Bad favour the Ugly", was a hit rafter 1968 with the soundtrack album shady the charts for more than a- year,[4] reaching No. 4 on blue blood the gentry Billboard pop album chart and Thumb. 10 on the black album chart.[5]
O'Neill also sang the theme tune manuscript the American TV series Wagon Train, where he was credited as Johnny O'Neill, and the recordings of unwritten Irish songs The Gordon Franks Concert And Music With John O'Neill[6] was recorded with The Gordon Franks Chorus and Music, in which he was the solo tenor. On these recordings, O'Neill sings in an Irish force, though his actual voice was somewhat more Geordie/London.[citation needed]
Living with his better half for the majority of their poised in Ilford in Essex, they raise four daughters and later retired cap Dovercourt, Essex.[citation needed]