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Post by Gene Hunt on Jul 2, 2015 10:35:34 GMT
Irish singer and TV personality Val Doonican has passed away peacefully at 88 years of age.
R.I.P Val.
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Post by The Saint on Jul 2, 2015 12:06:25 GMT
RIP Val
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jul 2, 2015 23:28:54 GMT
Sad news! 
I remember when we were kids our parents used to watch his show. Most of the time we'd be bored until he'd get to the inevitable "Paddy McGinty's Goat" or "O'Rafferty's Motor Car"
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Post by John Steed on Jul 3, 2015 19:32:04 GMT
R.I.P. Val
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Post by Vienna on Jul 5, 2015 18:50:49 GMT
Perhaps remembered by many for his rocking chair and multicoloured jumpers, but he also had many hit records and a no.1 album in the 1960s.
RIP Val Doonican
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jul 5, 2015 20:37:24 GMT
Sorry I'm late with this.
Val came across as a hell of a nice guy. I wish there were a few more like him on the telly today.
R.I.p.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jul 5, 2015 21:06:51 GMT
One more thing about Val, I remember David Jason saying in his autobiography that Val was a mate of David's brother Arthur and sometimes attended their family parties.
We seem to be losing a lot of good people lately.
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Post by Tyne Tees Colour on Jul 8, 2015 8:24:52 GMT
He was the kind of artist who could compete with The Beatles and Stones for record sales in the mid 60s.
A favourite is 'Elusive Butterfly' (1966). In those years there could be US and UK versions of the same song in the charts simultaneously.
In this case both Val's and Bob Lind's versions reached no. 5 in the UK chart. It was actually Lind who had written the song.
Like a lot of MOR artists, Val began to do TV work simultaneous with his singing career in the 60s. Then concentrated on TV from the early 70s, which is probably how many on this forum remember him.
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