Frank Collins (born 25 October 1947 in

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

) is an English composer, singer and

arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

who was a prominent member of the bands The Excels,

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, and Kokomo.Williams, Richard
"The groove abides"
Thebluemoment.com, 19 December 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2014 He wrote Arrival's 1970s Top 10

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, "I Will Survive" (not the

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song); a band that included keyboard and vocalist

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, vocalists

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and Paddy McHugh, saxophonist

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, guitarist

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, guitarist

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, bass player

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, percussionist

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, and drummer

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. Collins has worked as

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and

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for

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, and

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. In May 2008, Collins was part of the temporarily reformed 1970s jazz funk band Kokomo, with

, Paddy McHugh, Dyan Birch,

, Adam Phillips, Mark Smith,

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, Bernie Holland, and Glen Le Fleur.

References

External links

Frank Collins
Frank Collins interviewed by

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on his life and times in the music business.
Frank Collins with Kokomo

Frank Collins and Kokomo

Tony O'Malley
{{DEFAULTSORT:Collins, Frank 1947 births Living people Musicians from Liverpool British male singers British composers English session musicians