Christopher Frederick Andrews (born 15 October 1942) is an English-German singer-songwriter whose musical career started in the late 1950s.

Career

Andrews was born in Romford, Essex, England, and by his mid teens had formed his own group, Chris Ravel and the Ravers.Larkin C ''Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music'', (Muze UK Ltd, 1997) ) p13 On 14 March 1959, he made his British television debut, performing on the '' Oh, Boy!'' show. He would later return in April to perform a cover of Cliff Richard's, " Move It". For Adam Faith, Andrews wrote "The First Time" (No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart, 1963) and "We Are in Love" (No. 11, 1964), and then a string of

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for Sandie Shaw. They included "

Girl Don't Come "Girl Don't Come" is a song, written by Chris Andrews that was a No. 3 UK hit in the UK Singles Chart for Sandie Shaw in 1964–65. Background The track was recorded at Pye Recording Studios in Marble Arch in a session whose personnel include ...

" (No. 3, 1964/65), " I'll Stop at Nothing" (No. 4, 1965), "

Message Understood "Message Understood" is the sixth single by the British singer Sandie Shaw. Released in September 1965, it was written by Shaw's usual songwriter Chris Andrews, and became her fifth consecutive top-ten hit single in the UK Singles Chart T ...

" (No. 6, 1965) and " Long Live Love" ( No. 1, 1965). The latter remained a

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in the UK Singles Chart for three weeks. "Girl Don't Come" was covered by

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on her debut album, '' All I Really Want to Do''. Also in 1965, Andrews as a solo artist, got to No. 3 in the same listings with "

Yesterday Man "Yesterday Man" is a song written by Chris Andrews and was his first single as a solo singer, released in September 1965. It climbed to No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart, and No. 1 in Ireland, New Zealand, Germany and Austria. In England it sold 20,00 ...

", which peaked in Germany at No. 1 for four weeks; followed up with a No. 13 hit in the UK "To Whom It Concerns". The instrumental section of this song was used as the theme for

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's long-running TV programme, ''

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'', until 1999, and a re-arranged version returned as the show's theme music in September 2009. As well as obtaining a high placing in the UK

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, "Yesterday Man" climbed to No. 1 in Ireland and Germany. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Later releases were not as successful, but his own hits are seen as early examples of bluebeat influenced white pop music. Although his chart appearances dwindled in Britain by 1966, his chart topping success continued in mainland Europe for a number of years, particularly in Germany, and Andrews often recorded in foreign

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. It is possible that Chris Andrews' huge success in Germany was connected to the fact that his two UK hits, at least, were rhythmically redolent of Oom-pah music (although not intentionally so; see above), thus making them more acceptable to older German audiences who would not have liked many of the other Anglophone songs which became hits there. In South Africa, his later single releases proved particularly popular, with " Pretty Belinda" (1969), "Carol OK" and "Brown Eyes" (both 1970) all topping the charts there. "Yo Yo" reached No. 7 at the end of 1970. Andrews remains active in his career as a singer-songwriter, working primarily in continental Europe and in the United Kingdom. He lives with his second wife Alexandra, who is also his manager, in Selm, Germany, and

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. Because of the Brexit vote, Andrews also obtained German citizenship in 2016.

Songwriting credits

*"To Whom It Concerns" –

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*" As Long as You're Happy Baby" – Sandie Shaw *"Come Closer" – Adam Faith *" Don't Run Away" – Sandie Shaw *"The First Time" – Adam Faith *"

" – Sandie Shaw *" Heart of Stone" – Suzi Quatro *"Here's Another Day" – Adam Faith *"

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" – Sandie Shaw *"I'll Remember Tonight" – The Mamas & the Papas *" I'll Stop at Nothing" – Sandie Shaw *" Long Live Love" – Sandie Shaw *"

" – Sandie Shaw *"

Nothing Comes Easy ''Nothing Comes Easy'' is a boxed set of four CDs by the British girl singer Sandie Shaw released in 2004. It contained digitally remastered versions of every A-side and B-side of the singles she released in the UK from 1964 to 1988, plus sev ...

" – Sandie Shaw *"Nothing Less than Brilliant" – Sandie Shaw *"

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" – Sandie Shaw *" Show Me" – Sandie Shaw *"

Think It All Over "Think It All Over" (1969) is the twenty-second single by the English singer Sandie Shaw. It was her final single to be written by Chris Andrews and was influenced by the German oompah Oom-pah, Oompah or Umpapa is an onomatopoeic term desc ...

" – Sandie Shaw *" Think Sometimes About Me" – Sandie Shaw *" Today" – Sandie Shaw *" Tomorrow" – Sandie Shaw *"

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" – Adam Faith *"You Don't Love Me" – The Roulettes *"

You've Not Changed "You've Not Changed" is the fifteenth single by the British singer Sandie Shaw. This was the first single A-side to be written by Chris Andrews since "Think Sometimes About Me" almost a year previously. Shaw feels that at the time this was her b ...

" – Sandie Shaw

Discography

Singles

References

External links