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
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!!
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 RUclips.
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.
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! 😜
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i think you are now getting all abit picky about bum notes and technicalities its Russ on RUclips not live at The Palladium he continued to entertain at the ripe old age of 75 until his passing in 2000 so come on raise a glass for agreat showman x
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?
He wasn't trained and he did make mistakes no doubt about that. But he had a happy vibe, He was missing half a finger maybe that didn't help. I don't know why your comment was taken down you are expressing your opinion which you are entitled to do. Incidentally what took you to his page was it a detour?
Sorry for butting in on a comment after 5yrs and I don't know who you were asking but 'who played this song' was a question on bullseye and that's what brought me here. Anyway enjoy your evening
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.
Russ and Hank Marvin ruled! And boy could they compose and play...We were so lucky to have this music as kids😊
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
My parents played this a lot at home, I grew up with this in my ears. Oh, the memories... Love it.
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!!
The greatest left hand technique...orchestra in itself!
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
Loved actually watching this amazing enertainer live some years ago in LondonPalladium
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
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!
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
I used to be allowed up late to watch him . My cousin and i would argue as to who he was smiling at
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
Just brilliant👍
nothing wrong with Russ's playing; he was a good pianist.
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
The best two minutes you can add to any day
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.
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.
My Grandmother's favourite, it brings back memories of her.
Same here.
Oh gosh, I still love this. grew up on Russ Conway
Love this tune so much ..
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!
I was 5 when this came out. Annoyed my parents by singing it. Even so, it encouraged me to learn piano.
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.
Brilliant man and pianist
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.
That’s a Lot of talent playing on that piano.. at the wheel tappers 👍🏻
What with Juke box jury great days for the few
Just found this - Russ was my Mums pin up!! I miss her.
Amazing pianist!! Conway reminds me of Maestro Les Reed, OBE, THRILLING GIVES ME CHILLS
I like this pianomusic very much a good player Russ Conway
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
Top bloke,great era!!
This takes me back.Lovely man and a great song. 😉😉👌
love this music:)
Superb - Makes it look absolutely effortless....
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.
His appearance has something of Terry Wogan and Michael Aspel, but the talent was all his ! Bravo !!
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
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
Loved watching him xx
Happy music.🎉
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.
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
Classic!
I used to play this on the Juke box
Side Saddle was one of Russ's best!
What's it like having a 10yr old comment?
For a moment, I thought he was the American TV star of the same name.
Rip Russ Conway
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 !
happy memories of my grandad jack playing this
This is Real Music!!!!
Marvelous
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.
Although long gone, great to see that my mothers cousin can still entertain. Wish I'd inherited his musicality !
0:31 the smile on his face, he's got it!
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 RUclips.
Stokes too many dried out heads. Not enough water
Yeh, whatever you say!@@raystyles8289
Fabulous stuff
The Mrs. Mills documentary brought me here. Good stuff.
Saw him play this live on stage on Southport pier in early 70's with Les Dawson & Dana.
Believe it or not, I was a great fan.
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.
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.
💗💗💗💗 Szédületes, óriási !!! 2022- Maria Hungaria
I'd love to play like Russ.
My first piano hero...self taught...as am i..
Love this tune as a pick me up.
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! 😜
Is this the wheeltappers and social club?
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Bullseye brought us here.
It was the answer to "who is this playing?"
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My first knowledge of the 'hit parade' and records at age 9😊
Best Christmas tune?
@eruptionista Oh...that reverse-stride business is to die for! What a sound! Isn't it wonderful?
I'm sure the other side of this was the pixilated penguin. My grandad had the record.
Brilliant..Simply Brilliant...Better Than Libber-WhatHisFace!!!....
Russ had all the girls chasing him after each live show
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!
Simplemente...ME ENCANTA!!!!!!
ha ha, russ u legend!
Looks like more better times imo.
top turn. :)
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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Russ Conway, we need more
Russ Conway was a real goodie entertainer of his time. Where did they get that piano form though....
I think he used to live in Notting Hill Gate and owned a convertible Ford Zephyr
i think you are now getting all abit picky about bum notes and technicalities its Russ on RUclips not live at The Palladium he continued to entertain at the ripe old age of 75 until his passing in 2000 so come on raise a glass for agreat showman x
Russ Conway plays sidesaddle at the piano
Champion!
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.
my dad knew russ as well .
My teen crush, was Russ. Finally met him in my 40's and became great friends til his sad death @75yrs. Now i'll be 75 next year hopefully!
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.
Good Lord ! It's Terry Wogan .
Does the piano need tuning?
Yes! Does it ever!!
partner ?? you are correct about the time he spent with people.l had over ten happy yaers working with him
This was after his stroke.
I remember Russ Conway.......Did he have 1 finger shorter then the rest?
Who came here to find this after hearing Jean talk about it on Dinner-ladies
He wasn't trained and he did make mistakes no doubt about that. But he had a happy vibe, He was missing half a finger maybe that didn't help. I don't know why your comment was taken down you are expressing your opinion which you are entitled to do. Incidentally what took you to his page was it a detour?
his music made you feel happy
Sorry for butting in on a comment after 5yrs and I don't know who you were asking but 'who played this song' was a question on bullseye and that's what brought me here. Anyway enjoy your evening
@johndehaura Well said matey. Completley agree.