Tommy Adderley

Thomas Arthur "Tommy" Adderley (7 April 1940 – 5 February 1993) was a New Zealand singer.[1]

Adderley was born in Birmingham, England in 1940.[2] He later managed Auckland's Top 20's club, and in the 1970s was best known as leader of Tommy Adderley's Head Band.[2][3]

He died in Takapuna in 1993.[2]

Discography

Tommy Adderley With Max Merritt & His Meteors – I Just Don't Understand (1964) single

Tommy Adderley's Head Band - Good Morning Mr Rock 'n' Roll (1972) single (Tommy Adderley/Billy Kristian)

References

  1. ↑ Tommy Adderley (1940-1993): The Man and His Contributions to Pop, Jazz, and Rock Music in New Zealand "Birmingham-born Tommy Adderley was a working-class lad who started singing in New Zealand in the late 1950s when he was still in the Merchant Navy."
  2. 1 2 3 "Tommy Adderley". Audio Culture. Retrieved 26 March 2015.In the fall of 1964 he scored airplay across North America with "I Just Don't Understand", a remake of Ann-Margret's single two years earlier. His version made major radio playlists in Chicago, New York and Detroit, and peaked at #4 in Vancouver.
  3. ↑ Archaeology in New Zealand - Volume 47 - Page 92 2004 "It also provides an interesting journey back through Auckland's early alternative music scene from Tommy Adderley 's Top 20's club (where the Rolling Stones once played after a concert) to the Punk club Swine, through to Babes Disco until it ..."


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