Lyrics | Artists | Marty Wilde

Charts

Genres

Images

Marty Wilde

Rock music

Rock'n'roll

British rock

With his tall, dashing looks and smooth delivery, Marty Wilde became one of the early British pop idols with a string of hits in the 1950s and '60s, before helping his daughter Kim to fame in the '80s. Born Reginald Smith in South London, he grew up in a musical family and when his bus driver father took him to a forces concert, the three-year-old jumped up on stage and sang his dad's favourite song 'It's a Grand Old Song They Sing'. As the skiffle craze was bringing Britain's post-war youth to life, he left school at the age of 15 to work as a messenger, but was soon out playing...