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Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April [2] 1910 or 1914 [nb 1] – 28 February 1983) was a British pianist, born in the colony of Trinidad who migrated to Britain and who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records. [3]
Winifred Atwell (1914–1983), British pianist, from Trinidad; B ... contemporary British pianist teacher with over 1 million YouTube followers, known as "Dr K" L
The "Black and White Rag" is a 1908 ragtime composition by George Botsford. [1]The song was recorded widely for both the phonograph and player piano, [2] and was the third ragtime composition to sell over one million copies of sheet music. [3]
The television series was broadcast 21 April to 23 June 1956 on ITV as "Bernard Delfont presents The Winifred Atwell Show",. [1] The series was initially booked by ITV for 6 episodes, but this was extended to 10 by popular demand. [2] Regulars included singing act Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr and the comedy act Morecambe and Wise.
Britannia Rag" is an instrumental that was written [1] and recorded by Winifred Atwell in 1952. It was written for the 1952 Royal Variety Performance . The song peaked at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart , [ 2 ] and spent a total of six weeks in the top 12.
"Let's Have Another Party" is a 1954 ragtime medley which became a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart for the pianist Winifred Atwell. It is a composite of several pieces of music, and was a follow-up to Atwell's successful hit "Let's Have a Party" of the previous year.
A recording of the tune by Les Baxter's orchestra (Capitol Records catalog number 3336, with the flip side "Theme from 'Helen of Troy'") was a number-one hit on the Billboard chart in the US in 1956: for four weeks on the Best Sellers in Stores chart, [5] [6] for six weeks on the Most Played by Jockeys and Hot 100 charts, and for three weeks on the Most Played on Jukeboxes chart.
Let's Have a Party is a 1953 ragtime medley by pianist Winifred Atwell.It entered the UK charts on 4 December 1953, spending nine weeks there and peaking at #2. [1] It entered the charts again the following year, appearing on 26 November 1954 on the back of the success of Let's Have Another Party. [1]