COLLABORATIONS

The following list of collaborations only comprises songs that have been recorded. The list of songs which have never seen the light of day and probably never will is infinitely longer, too long to include.  Denis King

ALAN AYCKBOURN

• WHENEVER - click here
• ORVIN - CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS - click here
• AWAKING BEAUTY - click here

DON BLACK

• WHERE FOREVER BEGINS - Denis King 1972
• RICH MAN’S DAUGHTER - Alan Randall 1970
• THE SUPERSTAR’S BALL - Sharon Whitbread 1975
• THE MARRIED LADIES OF MILWAUKEE - Sharon Whitbread 1975
• ON A ROOFTOP IN MEMPHIS - Davy Clinton 1970
• RANSOM - Davy Clinton 1970
• RAINCOATS ON THE RIVER - Johnny Hackett 1972
• YESTERDAY’S CHILDREN - John Kirk 1972
• A STEP IN THE WRONG DIRECTION - John Kirk 1972
• TWO PEOPLE - Matt Monro
• TELL THE WORLD WE’RE NOT IN - The Peddlars

SAMMY CAHN

• TWO’S COMPANY - Elaine Stritch and Donald Sinden 1976 - click here

SID COLIN

• THE BEST OF EVERYTHING - D. King Big Band 1985 - click here

ALBERT FINNEY - click here

• BUT I WAS A CHILD
• I’D LIKE IT TO BE ME
• CRAZY SONG
• WHEN IT’S GONE
• WE’LL BE OKAY
• HOW DO YOU KNOW?
• THOSE OTHER MEN
• THEY SAY
• WHAT HAVE THEY DONE (TO MY HOME TOWN)?
• THE BIRD OF PARADISE
• THE STREAM OF LIFE
• A STATE OF GRACE

BENNY GREEN

• I’VE LOST MY LITTLE WILLIE - Lonnie Donegan 1976
• WONDER - D. King Big Band 1986
• WHO WOULD HAVE DREAMED - D. King Big Band 1985
• WITHOUT YOU - D. King Big Band 1984
• LONDON SONG - 1988 Deekers Music
• “BASHVILLE” - click here

WILLIS HALL

• THE BRIGHT SIDE - 1991
• TREASURE ISLAND - click here
• THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS - click here

JOHN JUNKIN

• BY THE WAY - Matt Monro 1962
• LEAVE ME NOW - Matt Monro 1963
• ALL THAT REMAINS - Matt Monro 1968
• THAT’S THE WAY IT GOES - Matt Monro
• THAT’S THE WAY IT GOES - The King Bros 1969
• DON’T COME TO ME - Peter Gordeno 1965
• A JOYOUS TIME OF THE YEAR - Marty Feldman 1968
• HERE AND NOW - Matt Monro 1964
• I’VE GOT LOVE - Matt Monro 1965
• THE “B” SIDE - Marty Feldman 1968
• NO MORE KISSES - The King Bros 1968
• ONE WAY TICKET - The King Bros 1968
• RAINBOW’S END - Doris Day 1964
• LOVE LEFT OVER - D. King Big Band 1985
• TUPPERWARE BRIGADE - King Bros 1967

DENIS KING

• GOTTA FEELING - Doris Day
• GOTTA FEELING - King Bros 1960
• OH WHAT A FOOL I’VE BEEN - King Bros
• KING SIZE TWIST - King Bros

HERBERT KRETZMER

• THE SONG THAT I SING - Stutz Bear Cats 1983
• HOW MANY TIMES? - D. King Big Band 1990
• WHO REMEMBERS - Standard Music 1974

PETER NICHOLS

• PRIVATES ON PARADE - click here

JACK ROSENTHAL

• PLEASED TO MEET YOU - D. King Big Band 1984

MYLES RUDGE

• HOLDING ON - Clive Dunn 1976
• TWO OF A KIND - D. King Big Band 1986
• LOVE OF MY LIFE - D. King Big band 1986
• LOVE’S BACK IN STYLE - D. King Big Band 1985
• THE GAME’S WE USED TO PLAY - D. King Big Band 1990
• HOW’S YOUR FATHER

BILL SOLLY

• EVERY TIME I SEE YOU - King Bros 1966
• WHO ARE YOU, I LOVE YOU - D. King Big Band 1985
• EVERY TIME IT RAINS

MARY STEWART-DAVID

• STEPPING OUT - THE MUSICAL aka ONE NIGHT A WEEK - click here

DICK VOSBURGH

• WHERE DO YOU STOP, AND I BEGIN? - D. King Big Band 1986
• I’M NOBODY’S APRIL FOOL - D. King Big Band 1986
• THE JOKE’S ON ME - D. King Big Band 1984
• STOP WALKING AROUND IN MY MIND - D. King Big Band 1990
• A SAINT SHE AIN’T - click here

PETER WILDEBLOOD

• THE LADY’S STILL AROUND - D. King Big Band 1984

KEITH WATERHOUSE (& WILLIS HALL)

• WORZEL GUMMIDGE - click here

KINGS’ COMMENTS:

I came home from the school run one day to find Denis standing on the stairs just inside the front door, holding a big brown envelope. 

“What are you doing?”  

“Waiting to be disappointed by my PRS check,” he said. “I can’t decide if I want breakfast first.”

PRS stands for Performing Rights Society and is money, royalties you get from composing. When you write a piece of music you register it with PRS and they keep track of what’s being played where, by whom, all over the world, twenty-four hours a day. I have an image of little old ladies in earphones sitting at desks in wooden huts with pencils poised saying, “Golly, this sounds like one’s of Den’s--have a listen here, Grace.”

How it works is four times a year a big envelope, now white, containing a computer print-out arrives, and you stare at it until you get the courage to open it. The big hope is the world can’t get enough of the 52 episodes of “BLACK BEAUTY” and then we can have the hall painted or buy a new washing machine pump or other girly frivolous things, but usually you tear it open to find there’s twenty-six pence coming from a song Den doesn’t even remember writing, having had one play on Radio Malta. He also seems to be popular in Chad.

Then there’s something called MCPS, known as mechanicals, which is something that’s been explained to me, but not very well, all I know is once instead of thirty pounds we got eight thousand for Den’s TV series “SMUGGLER” being shown in Germany. Nothing since, but you don’t want to call and check in case they added wrong.  Astrid King