by RayL » 10 Mar 2021, 12:29
Wikipedia says
He wrote the 1960s pop hit "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter", which was recorded by Herman's Hermits.[6] Other hit songs to his credit include "Mystery Girl" (recorded by Jess Conrad),[7] "Made You" (Adam Faith),[8] "Gossip Calypso" (Bernard Cribbins),[9] "Stick Around" (Billy Fury),[10] "That's What Love Will Do"[11] and "Nature's Time For Love"[12] (both recorded by Joe Brown).
Peacock wrote the lyrics for several hit singles by The Vernons Girls. The songs he wrote for the group include "Be Nice To Him Mama", "You Know What I Mean", "Funny All Over" and "He'll Never Come Back".[13] He contributed the lyrics for the musical show Passion Flower Hotel (music by John Barry), and for a musical based on the newspaper cartoon strip, Andy Capp (music by Alan Price). Before his acting career took off, Peacock compered Drumbeat for the BBC, also writing scripts for Oh Boy! and Six-Five Special.
I can't let mention of Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter go by without again quoting from Mickey Most, who was the producer on that session for Herman's Hermits. He's speaking of Peter Noone.
The one he'll always be remembered for is Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter which is probably the worst record ever been made.
Well, ever I've been associated with, so much that I don't even remember making it. I made it but I don't remember making it.
You get a phone call from MGM saying "We need an album by Thursday" and you get the lads down and we're in the studio - What can we do?
And they say "Well, er . . ." and I say "What do you do on stage?"
"der . .der . . everyone's doing that one . . . . I do this one Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter dunk-a-dunk"
"All right, let's try it"
Yea, all right, put it down, send it to America, forget about it.
Then three weeks later you get a phone call "We want to bring it out as a single"
"What? You got to be . .? Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter? Oh, is it on the album?"
And that's how it was, and that particular single did three quarters of a million in one day.
Trevor Peacock's songwriter's royalties must have brought him in a tidy sum!
Ray