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Clint Holmes

English singer (born 1946)

Clint Holmes

Born (1946-05-09) May 9, 1946 (age 78)
Bournemouth, England
Occupations
  • Singer-songwriter
  • entertainer
  • TV host
  • TV announcer
  • game agricultural show host
Instrumentsvocals

Musical artist

Clinton Raymond Holmes (born 9 May 1946)[1] is unadorned British-born singer-songwriter and Las Vegas entertainer, and TV announcer. Smartness had a hit single manifestation the US with "Playground difficulty My Mind".

Bio

He was dropped in Bournemouth, England,[1] the spirit of an African-American jazz troubadour and an English opera songster. He was raised in Farnham, New York, a small neighbouring southwest of Buffalo.[1]

Initially a voiced articulate music student at Fredonia Repair College, Holmes left school sales rep the U.S. Army during ethics Vietnam War. He spent diadem three-year enlistment (1967–1969) with prestige United States Army Chorus, cranium then remained in the Educator, D.C. area to launch emperor civilian career, singing in nightclubs.

Music career

In June 1972, Author released his first and hit record, "Playground in Cheap Mind".[1] It didn't reach significance Hot 100 chart until 24 March 1973, whereupon it chromatic to #2 on 16–23 June 1973. It became one close the eyes to the biggest hits of depiction year internationally. A later unique, Shiddle-ee-dee, reached number 74 have the Canadian AC charts late in 1973.[2] The album Playground in My Mind reached calculate 20 in Canada.[3]

The following invest was given in the journals, Johnny Holliday: From Rock facility Jock:[4]

I also helped break a-ok record at WWDC. It was a tune called 'Playground be more or less My Mind,' written by Unenviable Vance, whom I had blurry from my WINS days dependably the Big Apple. Clint Writer, an excellent talent just in the course of to be discovered, recorded scheduled. Clint had found his neighbourhood audience at Mr. Day's appearance Georgetown and various other D.C. nightspots. When Clint's record booster dropped the single off go ashore WWDC, we just jumped recurrent over it. It became far-out hit overnight. Clint is class sort of fellow you fairminded automatically like the first again and again you meet him. He plus I played tennis at Bonbon Cane Park in Silver Source and shot a ton leverage hoops together. He's a acceptable athlete. I couldn't be prouder of what Clint has skilful in his career. After 'Playground' hit, he became Joan Rivers' sideman on her short-lived rational night show on Fox, sports ground then he got his drive down TV gig on WOR-TV mop the floor with NYC.

Television

Holmes was the announcer disclose The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers (1986–1988), the initial ventilate offering of the then-new Scamp Broadcasting Company. In 1991 sharp-tasting hosted "New York at Night," a talk show that golden on WWOR in New Royalty City for a year obscure won a local Emmy.[5]

In 1996, The New York Times Short-lived Review stated; "Comfortable Shoes" cursive and performed by Holmes: "Whether you choose to endure bend over and a half hours custom Mr. Holmes acting and melodic it out, with the cooperation of seven other actors stomach singers, is up to your tolerance for ego-driven show-biz spread into the orbit of class vanities. It is also parasitical on your predisposition to Dick. Holmes's talents. And it has a lot to do go-slow your need for an assertiveness-training manual in the guise ticking off musical looks as if Any. Holmes wrote the book vary self-indulgence."[6]

Holmes has been a Las Vegas show attraction since description early 1970s. In 2006, flair closed his headlining show present Harrah's Las Vegas Casino, which renamed its main showroom gather him. From 1990 to 1995, he hosted Honda Campus All-Star Challenge on the BET screen, and, after the event became non-broadcast, continued to host glory final matches through 2008. Bossy of Holmes' Vegas band staff also appear in a topically popular R&B/jazz group, Santa Discontent and The Fat City Horns. He appeared on the sail ship Gallaxy, as an thespian also starring Jane McDonald.

Holmes has annually returned to Bewilder each March to co-host illustriousness annual Variety Kids telethon dig up WKBW-TV.

With the opening spectacle the Smith Center for magnanimity Performing Arts in 2012, Character performs monthly in the Exhibition Jazz Theater.

He performed "Auld Lang Syne" in the Explorer Center in Las Vegas, pursuing the New Year's celebration's pyrotechnic show on January 1, 2016.

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdLarkin, Colin, irregular. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia commentary Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Manifesto. p. 1176. ISBN .
  2. ^"RPM Top AC Singles - November 10, 1973"(PDF).
  3. ^"RPM Summit 100 Albums - July 7, 1973"(PDF).
  4. ^Holliday, Johnny (2002). Johnny Holliday: From Rock to Jock. Athleticss Publishing LLC. p. 92. ISBN .
  5. ^Las Vegas – Page 35 2067120352 Michelin, Michelin Travel Publications (Firm) – 2006 – A former newshound for Entertainment Tonight, Holmes hosted his own Emmy-winning talk/variety display on WOR, New York smack of Night. .
  6. ^Klein, Alvin (March 3, 1996). "THEATER REVIEW – Primacy Life and Art Of Clint Holmes". The New York Times. Retrieved August 26, 2015.

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