Paddy Roberts (songwriter)

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Paddy Roberts (1910 - 1975) was a popular songwriter, having previously been a lawyer and a pilot (serving with the RAF in World War II). He was born in South Africa and died in the United Kingdom. He enjoyed success with a number of songs in the 1950s and 1960s and wrote songs for several films. He released several LPs and EPs of his own material, often featuring what were, for the time, slightly risqué lyrics.

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Songs:

• L'Anglais Avec Son Sang-froid
• Follow Me
• Love Isn't What it Used to be
• The Book (David Whitfield)
• Lay Down Your Arms (Anne Shelton)
• Meet Me on the Corner(Max Bygraves)
• Pickin' a Chicken (Eve Boswell)
• Evermore (Ruby Murray)
• Softly Softly (Ruby Murray)
• Johnny is the boy for Me
• It's a Boy
• That Dear Old Gentleman
• Send For Me
• The Three Galleons
• Ballad of Bethnal Green
• The Belle of Barking Creek
• The Big Deejay
• The Lavender Cowboy
• Magic Carpet (from No Time for Tears)
• Title Song for The Heart of a Man (Frankie Vaughan)
• You Are My First Love (from Its Great to be Young)
• I'm in Love for the Very First Time (from An Alligator Named Daisy)
• Several songs for The Good Companions (1957)
• Merry Christmas You Suckers

LPs:

• Strictly for Grown Ups (1959)
• Paddy Roberts at the Blue Angel (1961)
• Songs for Gay Dogs (1966)
• The Best of Paddy Roberts (1968)