John Nicholas Shakespeare (born 20 October 1940),
known as John Carter, is an English
singer
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...
,
songwriter
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, and
record producer
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.
Overview
Mainly popular in the 1960s and early 1970s, Carter's craftsmanship can be heard at work with:
*
Carter-Lewis and the Southerners
Carter-Lewis and the Southerners were an early-1960s rock band, formed by the Birmingham-born musicians Ken Lewis (songwriter), Ken Lewis (guitarist, singer, songwriter) and John Carter (English musician), John Carter (producer, singer, songwriter ...
.
*
The Ivy League - "Funny How Love Can Be", "That's Why I'm Crying", "
Tossing and Turning"
*
Herman's Hermits
Herman's Hermits are an English beat, rock and pop group formed in 1964 in Manchester, originally called Herman and His Hermits and featuring lead singer Peter Noone. Produced by Mickie Most, the Hermits charted with number ones in the UK a ...
- "
Can't You Hear My Heartbeat
"Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" is a song written by John Carter and Ken Lewis, produced by Mickie Most, and performed by Herman's Hermits. It reached #2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1965. "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" was kept from the #1 ...
"
*
Brenda Lee
Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Performing rockabilly, pop and country music, she had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s and is ranked fourth in that decade, surpassed only ...
- "Is It True?"
*
The Music Explosion
The Music Explosion was an American garage rock band from Mansfield, Ohio, United States, discovered and signed by record producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffry Katz. The quintet is best known for their number two hit, "Little Bit O' Soul", that ...
- "
Little Bit O' Soul
"Little Bit O' Soul" is a song written in 1964 by British songwriters John Carter and Ken Lewis. It was originally recorded by Coventry band The Little Darlings, and released in 1965 on Fontana Records in the UK.
The Music Explosion version
In ...
"
*
Peter and Gordon
Peter and Gordon were a British pop duo, composed of Peter Asher (b. 1944) and Gordon Waller (1945–2009), who achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling single " A World Without Love". The duo had sever ...
- "Sunday for Tea"
*
The Flower Pot Men
The Flower Pot Men were an English pop group created in 1967 as a result of the single, "Let's Go to San Francisco", recorded by session musicians, becoming a major UK Top 20 and Continental Europe hit in the autumn of 1967. The group's sound ...
- "
Let's Go to San Francisco
"Let's Go to San Francisco" is the only UK-charting single by the British pop group The Flower Pot Men. The song was written and produced by John Carter and Ken Lewis, engineered by John Mackswith and released in 1967 on 7" single format. Cart ...
"
*
The First Class
The First Class were a British pop music studio-based group, put together by songwriter and record producer John Carter. They are best known for their hit song " Beach Baby," a top 20 hit in both the US and UK.
Career
The First Class was the ...
- "
Beach Baby
"Beach Baby" is a song by the British band The First Class. Written by John Carter and his wife, Gillian (Jill) Shakespeare, the song became the band's only substantial hit. The subject of the lyrics is not holiday love, but a broken love relatio ...
"
*
Sacha Distel
Alexandre "Sacha" Distel (29 January 1933 – 22 July 2004) was a French singer, guitarist, songwriter and actor who had hits with a cover version of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" in 1970, which reached No 10 in the UK Charts, " Scoubidou" ...
- "Vite, Cherie, Vite" (French version of "Beach Baby")
*
Mary Hopkin
Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti from her marriage to Tony Visconti, is a Welsh singer-songwriter best known for her 1968 UK number 1 single "Those Were the Days". She was one of the first artists ...
- "
Knock, Knock Who's There?
"Knock, Knock Who's There?" is a song written and composed by John Carter and Geoff Stephens, released on Apple Records. It was originally sung and recorded by the Welsh singer Mary Hopkin and was the 's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1 ...
"
*
Kincade - "Dreams Are Ten A Penny"
Biography
Carter met his future songwriting partner
Ken Hawker at school in Birmingham. They formed a
skiffle
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band in the 1950s called LVI. It was then they began writing songs together: "We began to write real Buddy Holly take-offs. Which was good, it got us excited about songwriting."
In 1960 the duo went to London and presented themselves under their songwriting
pseudonym
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s John Carter and Ken Lewis. Terry Kennedy became their
manager
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Management includes the activities o ...
and convinced them to start their own band as an outlet for their songs. In 1961 the first single by Carter-Lewis and the Southerners was released, "Back on the Scene". But the band never broke through and their main claim to fame remains a brief stint that
Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Page is prolific in creating guitar riffs. His style involves various alternative ...
did as their
lead guitar
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ist.
In 1964 they met Perry Ford, who worked as an
engineer
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in a small
recording studio
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in
Denmark Street
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,
London
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. They noticed their
voices blended well and started
recording
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demos
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...
together, resulting in a
single
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* Single (music), a song release
Songs
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on
Pye Records
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, "What More Do You Want" as
the Ivy League. Their luck changed when
Herman's Hermits
Herman's Hermits are an English beat, rock and pop group formed in 1964 in Manchester, originally called Herman and His Hermits and featuring lead singer Peter Noone. Produced by Mickie Most, the Hermits charted with number ones in the UK a ...
recorded "
Can't You Hear My Heartbeat
"Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" is a song written by John Carter and Ken Lewis, produced by Mickie Most, and performed by Herman's Hermits. It reached #2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1965. "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" was kept from the #1 ...
"
and took it to
number 2
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on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the United States.
In the UK it was a smaller
hit
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for
Goldie and the Gingerbreads
Goldie & the Gingerbreads was an all-female American rock band from 1962 to 1967. They were the first all-female rock band signed to a major record label.Lucy O'Brien. ''She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul.'' London ...
.
They then provided backing vocals for "
I Can't Explain
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", by
the Who
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. In 1965 and 1966, The Ivy League scored four UK chart hits, including "Tossing and Turning", which reached number 3 in the
UK Singles Chart
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and "Funny How Love Can Be" being their other top 10 hit.
By early 1966 Carter decided he had had enough of
touring and was replaced by
Tony Burrows
Anthony Burrows (born 14 April 1942) is an English pop music, pop singer and recording artist. As a prolific session musician, Burrows was involved in the production of numerous transatlantic hit singles throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, ...
from The Kestrels. That year he married Gill Shakespeare who would later write
lyrics
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for some of his
song
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s. Carter concentrated on songwriting, providing hits for
Peter and Gordon
Peter and Gordon were a British pop duo, composed of Peter Asher (b. 1944) and Gordon Waller (1945–2009), who achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling single " A World Without Love". The duo had sever ...
and
Brenda Lee
Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Performing rockabilly, pop and country music, she had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s and is ranked fourth in that decade, surpassed only ...
. He found a new songwriting partner in
Geoff Stephens
Geoffrey Stephens (1 October 1934 – 24 December 2020) was an English songwriter and record producer, most prolific in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s. He wrote a long series of hit records, often in conjunction with other British so ...
, resulting in "My World Fell Down", recorded by The Ivy League, later to be
covered
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by
Gary Usher
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's
Sagittarius and Dutch band
The Buffoons.
Carter sang lead on
the New Vaudeville Band
The New Vaudeville Band was a group created by songwriter Geoff Stephens in 1966 to record his novelty composition "Winchester Cathedral", a song inspired by the dance bands of the 1920s and a Rudy Vallee megaphone-style vocal. To his surprise, ...
's
hit single
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"
Winchester Cathedral
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", a traditional pop pastiche that became a U.S. chart-topper. He also released a single "White Collar Worker", recorded with Mickey Keen and Robin Shaw, as ''The Ministry of Sound''. Early in 1967,
Ken Lewis quit the Ivy League and started writing and recording again with Carter. One of the first results was "
Let's Go to San Francisco
"Let's Go to San Francisco" is the only UK-charting single by the British pop group The Flower Pot Men. The song was written and produced by John Carter and Ken Lewis, engineered by John Mackswith and released in 1967 on 7" single format. Cart ...
", released as
the Flower Pot Men
The Flower Pot Men were an English pop group created in 1967 as a result of the single, "Let's Go to San Francisco", recorded by session musicians, becoming a major UK Top 20 and Continental Europe hit in the autumn of 1967. The group's sound ...
.
As was the case with "Winchester Cathedral", when the recording, made by
session musician
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s, became a hit, a band had to be assembled for live appearances.
In late 1967, Carter and Lewis formed Sunny Records as their production company. Starting early 1968 Carter's output became more and more confusing. Songs intended for the Flowerpot Men were released as Friends, Haystack and Dawn Chorus, only to be re-released in this century as the Flowerpot Men. The 'touring' Flower Pot Men were forced by
Deram Records
Deram Records was a subsidiary record label of Decca Records established in the United Kingdom in 1966. At the time, U.K. Decca was a different company from the Decca label in the United States, which was owned by MCA Inc. Deram recordings w ...
to record songs by
Roger Greenaway
Roger John Reginald Greenaway, (born 23 August 1938) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for his collaborations with Roger Cook. His compositions have included "You've Got Your Troubles" and the transatlantic mill ...
and
Roger Cook. As Mark Frumento wrote in the liner notes of the retrospective Flowerpot Men album ''Listen To the Flowers Grow'' (compiled by Carter): "At this point Deram decided that the Flower Pot Men name was no longer commercial and the next single, "Piccolo Man" was released as 'Friends'.... The final Flowerpot Men single was released in 1969, but this time the writing team Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway were behind the production". After one abortive attempt the remains of the Flowerpot Men changed their name to
White Plains.
The 1970s started with a disappointment when
Mary Hopkin
Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti from her marriage to Tony Visconti, is a Welsh singer-songwriter best known for her 1968 UK number 1 single "Those Were the Days". She was one of the first artists ...
became runner-up in the
Eurovision Song Contest
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with "Knock, Knock Who's There?", which Carter had written with Stephens.
In the following years Carter released records under many names: Stamford Bridge (number 47 with "Chelsea"),
Scarecrow and Stormy Petrel. He also released a single "Cowboy Convention" as
the Ohio Express
The Ohio Express is an American bubblegum pop band formed in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1967. Though marketed as a band, it would be more accurate to say that the name "Ohio Express" served as a brand name used by Jerry Kasenetz's and Jeffry Katz's ...
, an American
bubblegum
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group. A hit came in 1974 with "Beach Baby" - Carter/Shakespeare by
First Class in 1974. The record also charted in Europe, Australia and South Africa.
Another song written by Carter and his wife Gill Shakespeare was "Dreams Are Ten A Penny" by
Kincade which was successful on in Europe. After two First Class albums, Carter started concentrating on writing
advertising
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jingles
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. Among his work are
commercials
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for
British European Airways
British European Airways (BEA), formally British European Airways Corporation, was a British airline which existed from 1946 until 1974.
BEA operated to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from airports around the United Kingdom. The a ...
,
Vauxhall Motors
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, and, for
Rowntree's
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, the 1974 children's song "Please Yourself" which introduced a band of four toy characters based on the four different types of
Tots sweets: Jerry Joe, vocals (Jelly); Tom, guitar (Tiger); Tim, drums (Teddy); Candy-Doll, keyboards (Candy). His last shot at a hit single was in 1977 as Starbreaker with "Sound of Summer", which itself began life as music in a commercial for
Butlin's
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Between 1936 and 1966, ten camps were built, including one ...
.
Under the name 'John Shakespeare' he also composed scores for British films, including ''
Death Is a Woman
''Death Is a Woman'' is a 1966 British mystery film directed by Frederic Goode and starring Mark Burns, Shaun Curry, William Dexter, Wanda Ventham, Terence De Marney and Trisha Noble. Location filming took place in Malta.
Plot
A British underc ...
'' (1966), ''
The Hand of Night'' (1968), ''
Connecting Rooms
''Connecting Rooms'' is a 1970 British drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Franklin Gollings. The screenplay is based on the play ''The Cellist'' by Marion Hart. The film stars Bette Davis, Michael Redgrave, and Leo ...
'' (1970), ''Swedish Wildcats'' (1972), ''
Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman
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The film is about ...
'' (1973), ''
The Over-Amorous Artist'' (1974), ''Confessions of a Sex Maniac'' (1974), ''
The Great McGonagall'' (1974), ''Girls Come First'' (1975), ''
The Sexplorer
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'' (1975), ''
Side by Side'' (1975), ''
Secrets of a Superstud
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'' (1976), ''
The Office Party
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'' (1976), ''Under the Bed'' (1977), ''
Killer's Moon
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'' (1978) and ''Can I Come Too?'' (1979).
In more recent times, Carter has been managing the marketing of his back catalogue through Sunny Records, releasing many songs that were never released at the time of recording.
These includes Stamford Bridge's albums ''Come Up And See Us Sometime'' and ''The First Day Of Your Life'' (1997).
Carter worked with Micky Keen and Robin Shaw and as a result of this collaboration they released two albums, ''Men From The Ministry'' and ''Midsummer Nights Dreaming'' (2005).
In late 2005, Carter released the
compilation album
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; ''John Carter - A Rose by any Other Name'' (2005).
In the mid-eighties, John served on the Council of the
British Academy of Composers and songwriters and the council as a writer-member of the
Performing Right Society
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.
He currently runs with his wife Gill, his own publishing company and record production company, which concentrates on compiling and promoting his enormous back-catalogue of songs and records.
In 2012 Carter teamed up with the
Brazilian songwriter
Salomao Hamzem, who is also a
musician
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and a producer. As writers, they wanted to try something a bit different so hit on the idea of writing songs together in English and Portuguese. When Carter and Hamzem were thinking about names for the band, they came up with the idea of combining the first part Salomao's surname of Hamzem and the last part of Carter making 'Hamzter'. That's why the
hamster
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has become their mascot. Their first album ''A Friend in Need'' (2016) was a result of this collaboration, followed by ''Coming Home'' (2017) and their third album, ''Time Will Tell'' (2018).
In 2019, they are planning to release their next album.
See also
*
Carter & Lewis
Sources
* Mark Frumento, liner notes of ''Listen To the Flowers Grow'' (RPM Retro 809), April 2007
* Mark Frumento, liner notes ''John Carter - A Rose by any Other Name'' (
Rev-Ola
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REV 84), January 2005
* Bob Stanley, liner notes ''The John Carter Anthology - Measure by Measure'' (RPM rpmd268), 2003
* ''
Melody Maker
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'' 1962-1979
* ''
New Musical Express
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'' 1963-1979
* ''
Record Mirror
''Record Mirror'' was a British weekly music newspaper between 1954 and 1991 for pop fans and record collectors. Launched two years after the ''NME'', it never attained the circulation of its rival. The first UK album chart was published in ''Re ...
'' 1964-1967
Song list
References
External links
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Living people
English record producers
English songwriters
English male singers
Musicians from Birmingham, West Midlands
People from Small Heath, Birmingham
The New Vaudeville Band members
The Ivy League (band) members
White Plains (band) members
The First Class members
1940 births
British male songwriters