Channelling the easy-listening style of the classic, old time entertainers,
Michael Holliday's velvet baritone voice and swaggering, laid-back cool made him
one of Britain's big pop crooners of the 1950s, renowned for his charm and
gentle manner. Holliday (real name Norman Alexander Milne) originally worked as
a merchant seaman and would bring back jazz records from America to his home
town of Liverpool and sell them in a small record shop run by Lilian Ablett, the
mother of Elvis Costello. On one trip to New York he won a talent contest held
at Radio City Music Hall and it encou...