WAKEY WAKEY!!! He appeared on many occasions on the Billy Cotton Band Show ,alonside the likes of Kathy Kirby, Alma Cogan, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, Matt Munro,to name but a few, sad they are no longer with us, but their memories live on!!
My parents and grandparents use to love Russ Conway, so many happy memories from my childhood. It feels like there's no real 'entertainment' on TV these days, just endless reality TV and talent shows.
Yes Russ lost a top of one finger in a bread slicer when he was young. He was best mates with my father who us also a pianist and entertainer (although 84 yrs old now). My father was with Russ at his bedside when he passed away. They were also in the navy together. I have pictures of him with my brother and I circa 1956/7, when we used to call him 'Uncle Russ'
Russ Conway is my great-great uncle on my mum's side of the family. He is the one who inspired Elton John to play the piano, as well as me. His real name was Trevor Stanford.
My dad was a fantastic pianist. He died of covid on 30th March. A song popped into my head, a song that I couldn’t remember the name of. The next day it revealed itself-. I used to ask him to play it for me. I have a vision, a memory of him playing it for me. Damn, I miss him, he died alone
In 1961, I was in the USAF in Japan and was an announcer on our base AFRTS radio station. One of my buddies and I had gone to the movie and it happened to feature Russ Conway doing "Sidesaddle". After the movie, we went to our station to see if we had he song in our station library. We did, and in fact had 5 tracks of Russ Conway's music. We started playing them when we were on the air and they all became the most requested music among our personnel. This feature brings back a lot of great memories!
Mother would speak of Russ Conway as though he was family, can remember going to the pictures on the way in you could hear his music being played, a real joy
I come from the more Jazz world BUT side saddle the way he does is NOT EASY you gotta spot on great guy lotta talent lovely left hand reverse tenths that was HIS SOUND lovely stuff
This video is taken from the series The Wheelpappers and Shunters Social Club which aired on British TV in the 70's. Featuring Colin Crompton and Bernard Manning. You can see the back of Colin Crompton's head - wearing flat cap and smoking a cigar his trademark - at 1:40 with an old fashioned microphone in front of him. BTW Russ was pretty good - not brilliant but good looking guy with shiny set of molars and brylcreemed hair and was adored by the women.
We had a super music teacher back in the fifties and if we were good in her class she would finish up with popular music, the one we asked for most was Russ Conway's Sidesaddle, she did play it very well and often
For some reason it stuck in my head that he lived on a diet of bananas and peanut butter! A memory from over sixty years ago, I always think of this when I bump into his name.
Now discovering. From.trinidad As our queens hall ( concert hall) in capotal city port of soain trinidad now renamed in het honour. Pity a whole generation do not know het ..this will awaken intetest So thx for comments frim those who knew her talent abroad Trini from trinidad❤
Russ was a great entertainer and by all accounts a very kind man. Incidentally, he served in the Royal Navy during WW2 in the Mediterranean and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and was also Mentioned in Dispatches.
As kids in the 60`s our neighbours May & Horace Slade bought us kids records for our new Fidelity record player at Christmas and they gave Mum & Dad this Russ Conway LP
Russ Conway had a stroke and fought his way back to play again after being told he would never perform any more. He wrote this piece himself at it became his signature tune
@@karlmartin685 "Russ Conway" was a stage name (never seen anything about how he came to choose it). Trevor Stanford was his real one, and went on all his compositions.
I just lucked into these tunes by Russ Conway. Wow, this guy was good! I am a big fan of Joe "Fingers" Carr, and this tune reminds me of him. Being an English artist, we didn't have the benfit of seeing him on TV here in the states. thanks for posting.
This sosng and four others by Russ were in the AFRTS library and I did DJ work there in Japan. Played this song every show for months, the guys loved it!
Russ Conway was a superstar at the time of is heyday. He was on the telly a lot on variety shows. I like one called Snowcoach and have the record somewhere in my collection. Side Saddle was one of his biggest hits.
My mate Tommy Waters said he sometime finished by running his finger from one end of the piano to the other but missing the correct end note, and having a few goes at it until he got it right. He was laughing all the time. A happy man.
feel good music. He was such a personable man. I didn't think he was a great pianist when I was young but enjoyed his music just the same. But he really could play I know that now. I.m really enjoying going back and listening to all the stuff i thought i would never hear again. THANK YOU YOU TUBE AND YOUR BRILLIANT CREATORS. What real happiness you have brought to me and many others i know. I'm always trying to find a way to contact you tube but I can't fathom it out. Can anyone help.
When i can play a piano as good as russ conway i will have the right to be picky at the sounds i produce or for that matter anyone else, until then i can say nothing and others in the same place should do the same
Is this the wheeltappers and social club? 0:22-0:26 Bullseye brought us here. It was the answer to "who is this playing?" 🕺💖🎶🎙️🎹🎵 💛💙💛💙💛💙 🥰🇯🇲🏴🕊️🔥✝️
@@nickturner2813 There are no bum notes. He never wrote the stuff down, so all he played was in his head, and since he made the stuff up then he only played good notes. I heard that Liszt made the odd mistake or rather his performances differed from the music that he had written down. Conway wasn't a concert pianist, but he was an entertainer.
In 1959 Russ was at his peak as a performer, and his playing was fresh and full of vitality, so a comparison with the later c1973 clip will show up some slight differences in his style (his playing was never quite so free and easy following his stroke in the mid 60s) and in any case, Side Saddle will never sound that great on a grand piano. However, Russ was the master on this kind of music and we just need to see more clips posted on TH-cam.
Incredible! Watching this I can’t help wondering what the record is for the maximum amount of notes played in a bar; and that’s a musical bar not a pub! 😜
Pure magic - listened to this and others of his in the sixties on the radio. I don't think he actually wrote his music down and the scores had to be derived?
WAKEY WAKEY!!! He appeared on many occasions on the Billy Cotton Band Show ,alonside the likes of Kathy Kirby, Alma Cogan, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, Matt Munro,to name but a few, sad they are no longer with us, but their memories live on!!
My parents and grandparents use to love Russ Conway, so many happy memories from my childhood. It feels like there's no real 'entertainment' on TV these days, just endless reality TV and talent shows.
Yes Russ lost a top of one finger in a bread slicer when he was young.
He was best mates with my father who us also a pianist and entertainer (although 84 yrs old now). My father was with Russ at his bedside when he passed away. They were also in the navy together.
I have pictures of him with my brother and I circa 1956/7, when we used to call him 'Uncle Russ'
Russ Conway is my great-great uncle on my mum's side of the family. He is the one who inspired Elton John to play the piano, as well as me. His real name was Trevor Stanford.
Kim love the info .xxx
@@oliviacranch3974 thank you for sharing. Parade of the Poppets was played by Russ and was my first record x
@@janethills3646 that's amazing!
My dad was a fantastic pianist. He died of covid on 30th March. A song popped into my head, a song that I couldn’t remember the name of. The next day it revealed itself-. I used to ask him to play it for me. I have a vision, a memory of him playing it for me. Damn, I miss him, he died alone
Russ and Hank Marvin ruled! And boy could they compose and play...We were so lucky to have this music as kids😊
I used to be allowed up late to watch him . My cousin and i would argue as to who he was smiling at
As a child I loved him. He inspired me to keep playing. Still love him.
The best two minutes you can add to any day
Loved actually watching this amazing enertainer live some years ago in LondonPalladium
In 1961, I was in the USAF in Japan and was an announcer on our base AFRTS radio station. One of my buddies and I had gone to the movie and it happened to feature Russ Conway doing "Sidesaddle". After the movie, we went to our station to see if we had he song in our station library. We did, and in fact had 5 tracks of Russ Conway's music. We started playing them when we were on the air and they all became the most requested music among our personnel. This feature brings back a lot of great memories!
The greatest left hand technique...orchestra in itself!
Mother would speak of Russ Conway as though he was family, can remember going to the pictures on the way in you could hear his music being played, a real joy
My parents played this a lot at home, I grew up with this in my ears. Oh, the memories... Love it.
The crowd taking this artisan talent for granted... amazing. If they could only see us now
Exactly! ...and the guy at the end in the tie coming back from the loo missed it all!! (are you by any chance the brilliant composer PD?)
Have we gone backwards
You Tube takes u back in time, that conway smile from the BBC Billy Cotton BandShow is ingrained in ur memory. Great & GRAND.
Bernard Kimmins my mum loved him.
Billy Cotton my late grandad!
I come from the more Jazz world BUT side saddle the way he does is NOT EASY you gotta spot on great guy lotta talent lovely left hand reverse tenths that was HIS SOUND lovely stuff
This video is taken from the series The Wheelpappers and Shunters Social Club which aired on British TV in the 70's. Featuring Colin Crompton and Bernard Manning. You can see the back of Colin Crompton's head - wearing flat cap and smoking a cigar his trademark - at 1:40 with an old fashioned microphone in front of him. BTW Russ was pretty good - not brilliant but good looking guy with shiny set of molars and brylcreemed hair and was adored by the women.
We had a super music teacher back in the fifties and if we were good in her class she would finish up with popular music, the one we asked for most was Russ Conway's Sidesaddle, she did play it very well and often
I met him in 1954 on a cruise ship I was working on.I asked him to play ( The Golden Tango) for me and he did.
Russ could play just about anything and everything in any key. Great talent.
For some reason it stuck in my head that he lived on a diet of bananas and peanut butter! A memory from over sixty years ago, I always think of this when I bump into his name.
Just brilliant👍
Now discovering. From.trinidad
As our queens hall ( concert hall) in capotal city port of soain trinidad now renamed in het honour.
Pity a whole generation do not know het ..this will awaken intetest
So thx for comments frim those who knew her talent abroad
Trini from trinidad❤
Russ was a great entertainer and by all accounts a very kind man. Incidentally, he served in the Royal Navy during WW2 in the Mediterranean and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and was also Mentioned in Dispatches.
A kind man through and through. Then his shares for our parents and
wonderful to hear Russ Conway playing Side Saddle again, I used to dance around the room when I was three years old to this! My first music love!
nothing wrong with Russ's playing; he was a good pianist.
Brilliant man and pianist
I remember Russ Conway playing this tune and seeing him perform on Billy Cotton's Bandshow. Those were the days of real entertainment.
Rip Russ Conway
Just found this - Russ was my Mums pin up!! I miss her.
That’s a Lot of talent playing on that piano.. at the wheel tappers 👍🏻
What with Juke box jury great days for the few
My Grandmother's favourite, it brings back memories of her.
Same here.
I'm sitting here watching this, and right beside is a piano he played on himself back in the 1950's in tea rooms, blackrock, county louth.
Classic!
As kids in the 60`s our neighbours May & Horace Slade bought us kids records for our new Fidelity record player at Christmas and they gave Mum & Dad this Russ Conway LP
Russ Conway had a stroke and fought his way back to play again after being told he would never perform any more. He wrote this piece himself at it became his signature tune
Hi regarding who wrote Side Saddle on my piano music copy it says written by Trevor H Stanford...?
@@karlmartin685 "Russ Conway" was a stage name (never seen anything about how he came to choose it). Trevor Stanford was his real one, and went on all his compositions.
@@karlmartin685 That's him.
@@karlmartin685 . Hello, yes my sheet music says the same.
@@alisoncotton9087 Hi Alison, Just found out that "Side Saddle" was writte
n under his real name as opposed to Russ Conway his stage name.
Oh gosh, I still love this. grew up on Russ Conway
Love this tune.
I was 5 when this came out. Annoyed my parents by singing it. Even so, it encouraged me to learn piano.
I just lucked into these tunes by Russ Conway. Wow, this guy was good! I am a big fan of Joe "Fingers" Carr, and this tune reminds me of him. Being an English artist, we didn't have the benfit of seeing him on TV here in the states. thanks for posting.
Superb - Makes it look absolutely effortless....
This sosng and four others by Russ were in the AFRTS library and I did DJ work there in Japan. Played this song every show for months, the guys loved it!
Best Christmas tune?
Top bloke,great era!!
Good God, this fella can tickle the ivories. Awesome!
that sounded oddly sexual. XD
Russ Conway was a superstar at the time of is heyday. He was on the telly a lot on variety shows. I like one called Snowcoach and have the record somewhere in my collection. Side Saddle was one of his biggest hits.
vordman He was a past master and a greatly enjoyed penis
My mate Tommy Waters said he sometime finished by running his finger from one end of the piano to the other but missing the correct end note, and having a few goes at it until he got it right. He was laughing all the time. A happy man.
Amazing pianist!! Conway reminds me of Maestro Les Reed, OBE, THRILLING GIVES ME CHILLS
Amazing ❤❤❤❤❤
I like this pianomusic very much a good player Russ Conway
This takes me back.Lovely man and a great song. 😉😉👌
The gold old days ! If today he would be in a singlet with tattoos. Russ Conway oozed class. Cuff links - who wears them these days !
Loved watching him xx
love this music:)
feel good music. He was such a personable man. I didn't think he was a great pianist when I was young but enjoyed his music just the same. But he really could play I know that now. I.m really enjoying going back and listening to all the stuff i thought i would never hear again. THANK YOU YOU TUBE AND YOUR BRILLIANT CREATORS. What real happiness you have brought to me and many others i know. I'm always trying to find a way to contact you tube but I can't fathom it out. Can anyone help.
Love this tune so much ..
The Mrs. Mills documentary brought me here. Good stuff.
Side Saddle was one of Russ's best!
What's it like having a 10yr old comment?
His appearance has something of Terry Wogan and Michael Aspel, but the talent was all his ! Bravo !!
Although long gone, great to see that my mothers cousin can still entertain. Wish I'd inherited his musicality !
One of the greatest piano players of all time wounderfull
Hmm, you haven't heard that many real pianists, then, obviously.
Love thy neigbour as yourself
@eruptionista Oh...that reverse-stride business is to die for! What a sound! Isn't it wonderful?
0:31 the smile on his face, he's got it!
Marvelous
He was damned good on the piano, and rather handsome in a Cary Grant-ish way.
Khayyam1048 my mum loved him...
Plus he had the Cary smile
happy memories of my grandad jack playing this
This is Real Music!!!!
Saw him play this live on stage on Southport pier in early 70's with Les Dawson & Dana.
Fabulous stuff
For a moment, I thought he was the American TV star of the same name.
Believe it or not, I was a great fan.
I'd love to play like Russ.
I used to play this on the Juke box
Happy music.🎉
I wonder why Mum loved him so much! I must look up 'pixilated' too, as in penguin, as I don't know what it means!
We had the 78s of both of them!
I'm sure the other side of this was the pixilated penguin. My grandad had the record.
When i can play a piano as good as russ conway i will have the right to be picky at the sounds i produce or for that matter anyone else, until then i can say nothing and others in the same place should do the same
Love this tune as a pick me up.
💗💗💗💗 Szédületes, óriási !!! 2022- Maria Hungaria
Is this the wheeltappers and social club?
0:22-0:26
Bullseye brought us here.
It was the answer to "who is this playing?"
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For a man with a finger missing this is truly amazing.
He didn't have a missing finger, he lost a small part of the tip, that's why he plays so many bum notes.
@@nickturner2813 There are no bum notes. He never wrote the stuff down, so all he played was in his head, and since he made the stuff up then he only played good notes. I heard that Liszt made the odd mistake or rather his performances differed from the music that he had written down. Conway wasn't a concert pianist, but he was an entertainer.
In 1959 Russ was at his peak as a performer, and his playing was fresh and full of vitality, so a comparison with the later c1973 clip will show up some slight differences in his style (his playing was never quite so free and easy following his stroke in the mid 60s) and in any case, Side Saddle will never sound that great on a grand piano.
However, Russ was the master on this kind of music and we just need to see more clips posted on TH-cam.
Stokes too many dried out heads. Not enough water
Yeh, whatever you say!@@raystyles8289
Russ had all the girls chasing him after each live show
Russ Conway, we need more
Simplemente...ME ENCANTA!!!!!!
Russ Conway was a real goodie entertainer of his time. Where did they get that piano form though....
Incredible! Watching this I can’t help wondering what the record is for the maximum amount of notes played in a bar; and that’s a musical bar not a pub! 😜
When I heard this as a kid I thought it was a variation on 'in an English country garden' 😊
Most music is a variation on something or other.
Yes, I can hear it now💞
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ha ha, russ u legend!
reminds me of the tune 'Engish Country Garden'
My first piano hero...self taught...as am i..
Champion!
My first knowledge of the 'hit parade' and records at age 9😊
I think he used to live in Notting Hill Gate and owned a convertible Ford Zephyr
top turn. :)
Pure magic - listened to this and others of his in the sixties on the radio. I don't think he actually wrote his music down and the scores had to be derived?
The published scores were much simplified but there are now multiple transcriptions of his works based on the recordings. They're easy to find.
Looks like more better times imo.
Brilliant..Simply Brilliant...Better Than Libber-WhatHisFace!!!....
Good Lord ! It's Terry Wogan .
Music Choice ( Easy Listening) brought me here.
Yeah me to, A bit of trivia he had part of his little finger missing, I think it was the pinky on his left hand. LOL
Catherine. Right hand ring finger, I think.
@@tonyelliott1171 Yes, but his best song is Hi Lili Hi Lo.
Russ Conway plays sidesaddle at the piano
partner ?? you are correct about the time he spent with people.l had over ten happy yaers working with him