| Description | The papers of Frankie Vaughan contains the sheet music; scores; and orchestral and band parts used by Frankie Vaughan throughout his career. The majority ofthe scores and parts are handwritten, with notes relating to the occasions they were used for, stage directions, lead-ins, and running orders for stage and television appearances.
Please note that this collection is currently uncatalogued, but you can still browse a provisional box list of items attached within the Multimedia field. |
| AdminHistory | Frankie Vaughan (1928-1999) was born in Liverpool and enjoyed a long career as a pop singer both in the UK and the US. He started out in variety theatre in the 1940s, progressed to film and TV appearances and made a large number of very successful recordings in the 1950s and 60s. He is perhaps best remembered for his signature tune Give me the Moonlight, recorded in 1955, and his cover versions of US hits such as Green Door, Kewpie Doll and Seventeen. Frankie was a stylish and relaxed live performer who headlined at the London Palladium Talk of the Town, which attracted family audiences. His television appearances included Sunday Night at the Palladium and The Ed Sullivan Show in the US.
As well as his musical career, Frankie carried out significant charitable work on social projects for which he received an OBE in 1965 and a CBE in 1997. He was a life-long supporter of the British Boys’ Clubs Association and in 1964 was appointed to a committee dealing with juvenile delinquency, successfully negotiating a deal with young Glaswegian gang members to turn in their weapons and accept an amnesty agreement. He was also made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University. |
| CustodialHistory | Kindly donated to LJMU Special Collections & Archives in 2000 by Stella Vaughan. |