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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]
In 1962 he appeared on the bill of "The Winifred Atwell Show". From Monday 17 September 1962, for one week only, he gave twice-nightly performances at the Brighton Hippodrome. Carroll subsequently worked on cruise ships, including the QE2, with John Marcangelo who was the drummer with the Ronnie Carroll Orchestra.
Her mother loved opera singer Mario Lanza pianist Winifred Atwell. [3] She started singing at the age of four. [5] After her parents' marriage broke down, when Andrew was four years old and her sister Lorraine was five, they were moved to Mount Isa, Queensland, to live with his father's cousin and her husband. [3]
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]
As a 16-year-old, in 1953, she danced in a Folies Bergère-style musical revue, "Pardon My French", at the Prince of Wales Theatre, alongside Frankie Howerd and the pianist Winifred Atwell. She first appeared on television as one of the Dougie Squires Dancers on the British television music show Cool for Cats in 1956.
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The song was recorded by numerous artists, but most notably by Winifred Atwell, whose 1953 recording became a gold record [9] and was used as the theme of the long-running BBC2 snooker tournament show, "Pot Black". [10] The song was also used as theme music for the 1985 video game Repton. [11]