Georgie Fame

Georgie Fame - Am I Wasting My Time (1969) From the BBC 2 show The Price Of Fame TV in 1969 that also featured Sissy Houston and Alan Price. Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell, 26 June 1943) is a British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. He was born in Leigh. At sixteen years of age, he entered into a management agreement with Larry Parnes, who gave artists new names such as Marty Wilde and Billy Fury. Fame was already playing piano for Billy Fury in a backing band called the Blue Flames, which later became billed as "Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames". The band had great success with rhythm and blues. One young musician who opened with Georgie Fame on 26 December 1966 for three weeks in the "Fame in ’67 Show" at London’s Saville Theatre was Cat Stevens, who at that point had released only his first hit song, "I Love My Dog". Fame's greatest success was "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" in 1968, which was a number one hit in the United Kingdom, and No.7 in the United States; Fame also had UK number one hits with "Yeh Yeh" (1965) and "Get Away" (1966).