Cherry Wainer Explained

Cherry Wainer
Birth Date:March 2, 1935
Birth Place:East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Death Place:Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Spouse:Don Storer (died 2006)[1]

Cherry Wainer (March 2, 1935 – November 14, 2014) was a South African-born musician, best known as a member of Lord Rockingham's XI and a soloist on the Hammond organ.[2]

Biography

Wainer was born in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, the daughter of a music promoter. A piano player since childhood, she once said: "I was going to be a classical pianist and at the age of eight, I performed a concerto with an orchestra." When taking up the Hammond organ, she was influenced by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith.[3]

In her first recording she collaborated with accordionist Nico Carstens on an early South African rock and roll 10" LP titled Flying High.[4] [5] On moving to the United Kingdom in 1958 with drummer Don Storer, her future husband, her flatmate, the singer Georgia Brown, introduced Wainer to her manager, Tito Burns, who managed to gain spots for her on the light-entertainment programme Lunchbox.[6] She became a regular on ATV-Midland's Lunchbox from Birmingham, which was hosted by Noele Gordon.[7]

From summer 1958 Wainer was the featured Hammond organist in groundbreaking young producer Jack Good's ABC-TV Oh Boy!, one of Britain's first teenage all-music 'Live' TV shows following Good's resignation from his BBC-TV hit show Six-Five Special. Oh Boy! (named by Good after Buddy Holly & The Crickets' 1957 hit single "Oh, Boy!") featured rock and roll regularly, with Lord Rockingham's XI, serving as the house band used to support singers, which was led by Harry Robinson and included Benny Green and Red Price. Their single, "Hoots Mon", was number one in the UK charts in 1958.[8] She occasionally sang vocals on the show, and became close to one of the acts who appeared regularly in Oh Boy!, the teenage Cliff Richard, effectively serving as his chaperone.[9]

Along with the band, Wainer played in the 1959 Royal Variety Performance, held at the Palace Theatre, Manchester.[10] In 1960, she appeared as herself in the musical Girls of the Latin Quarter.[11]

Wainer married drummer Don Storer with whom she appeared regularly as a duo during the 1960s.[12] They appeared regularly in a German television series, Beat! Beat! Beat (1967). Wainer released several solo albums and singles, none of which made the UK charts.[13] Wainer and her husband moved to Las Vegas in 1968, working in cabaret. She later retired from music but remained in Las Vegas and worked in a gift shop. Her husband died in 2006.

In 2013 she appeared in the BBC aired documentary 50's Britannia.

Wainer died on November 14, 2014, in Las Vegas, Nevada, aged 79.

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External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Don Storer Obituary. Las Vegas Review-Journal. 2006. 6 April 2019.
  2. http://www.timeout.com/london/tv-reviews/rock-n-roll-britannia Time Out TV review
  3. News: Cherry Wainer – obituary. The Daily Telegraph. December 29, 2014. 6 April 2019.
  4. Web site: Cherry Wainer. Brian. Currin. www.rock.co.za.
  5. Web site: Cherry Wainer - Oh Boy!. Webmaster.
  6. News: Cherry Wainer. The Times. London. 12 December 2014. 6 April 2019.
  7. http://www.turnipnet.com/whirligig/tv/adults/other/lunchbox.htm Whirligig: Lunchbox
  8. Book: Roberts, David. 2006. British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th. Guinness World Records Limited. London, UK. 1-904994-10-5. 231.
  9. Book: Stafford Hildred. Tim Ewbank. Cliff: An Intimate Portrait of a Living Legend. 13 April 2010. Ebury Publishing. 978-0-7535-3610-0. 90.
  10. http://www.eabf.org.uk/royal-variety-performance/archive/1950s/1959 Royal Variety Performance official website
  11. Web site: Girls of the Latin Quarter. https://web.archive.org/web/20180624152252/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b71eeb35f. dead. June 24, 2018. British Film Institute. 24 June 2018.
  12. http://www.theladyorganist.com/cherry-wainer-with-don-stoner Profile
  13. Web site: Cherry Wainer Discography. discogs. 4 April 2018.
  14. Web site: Cherry Wainer.
  15. Web site: Cherry Wainer and the Knightsbridge Brass – Waltzes in Swingtime (1960, Vinyl). Discogs.
  16. Web site: Cherry Wainer with the Sound of the Sixties – Showtime in Your Club - Wainer's a Winner (Vinyl). Discogs.
  17. Web site: Cherry Wainer - Rhythmus Im Blut. Discogs.
  18. Web site: Cherry Wainer. 17 March 2016.
  19. Web site: Cherry Wainer – Musik Im Blut (Cherry Wainer und Ihre Swinging Hammond-Orgel) (1967, Vinyl). Discogs.
  20. http://www.discogs.com/Cherry-Wainer-Hammond-Organ-Light-And-Liverly/release/4037799 Profile
  21. Web site: User Account.
  22. Web site: 7.92 GB folder on MEGA.
  23. Web site: Late Great Cherry Wainer Rock Organist, the Queen of the Hammond.
  24. Web site: CherryWainerVEVO Cherry Wainer & Don Storer music inCOMPLETE collection on Youtube :(- YouTube. YouTube.

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