Daniel Boone born 31 July 1942

Daniel Boone (31 July 1942 – 27 January 2023) was an English pop musician who became a one-hit wonder in the United States with the single "Beautiful Sunday" in 1972. 

The Beachcombers

Daniel Boone was born Peter Charles Green. Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Green began his musical career in 1958, when he joined a local band called the Beachcombers. In 1960, the Beachcombers met vocalist Tommy Bruce, who had just scored a hit single with his interpretation of "Ain't Misbehavin'." The record was credited to Tommy Bruce & the Bruisers, but a group of session musicians backed Bruce for the recording, and the Beachcombers were recruited by Bruce to be "the Bruisers" for live dates. 

Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers

The group went on using the name the Bruisers when they signed a record deal with EMI. "Blue Girl" was released on 11 July 1963, and entered the UK charts on 8 August, eventually reaching number 31. On the strength of this hit, the band appeared on the Thank Your Lucky Stars television show on 26 October, performing the follow-up "I Could If I Wanted To". This was probably the only TV appearance of the Bruisers as a group.   Green took the stage name Lee Stirling, and cut a solo single, "My Heart Commands Me" b/w "Welcome Stranger," in 1963. Between 1963 and 1964, he appeared on six Parlophone singles credited either to the Bruisers or Lee Stirling & the Bruisers. 

The Bruisers broke up in 1967 and Stirling became the co-owner, with Bernard Mattimore, of a recording studio in London's Whitechapel Road, which specialised in covering contemporary chart material. Then he he issued six singles as Peter Lee Stirling through Decca and MCA, but none of the records under this name entered the UK chart. As Peter Lee Stirling he appeared solo on later editions of Thank Your Lucky Stars and also on Ready Steady Go! Stirling went on to write or co-write "I Think of You" and "Don't Turn Around", both of which were hits for The Merseybeats,  and co-wrote "I Belong" for Kathy Kirby, which came second in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965. He subsequently joined the studio band 'Hungry Wolf' for one album, and when they became 'Rumpelstiltskin' he worked with them for a further two albums. He also wrote musical scores for the films Groupie Girl and Goodbye Gemini. 

                                   

In 1971, he struck a deal with Penny Farthing Records, a label founded by producer Larry Page, and adopted yet another stage name, Daniel Boone, in tribute to the American outdoorsman and folk hero. His first release for Penny Farthing, "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast," was a cover of a tune that was a hit for Wayne Newton in the United States, and it rose to number 17 on the U.K. singles chart. The follow-up, "Mamma," fell on deaf ears, but in March 1972, Penny Farthing released "Beautiful Sunday," which Boone wrote in tandem with Rod McQueen. 

The song peaked at number 21 in the U.K., and at number 15 in the United States, while the single was a chart hit in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, and Scandinavia. The song also became an unofficial anthem of the Scottish football club Dundee United. An album, Beautiful Sunday, followed in September 1972, and Mercury Records (which issued "Beautiful Day" and the Daniel Boone album in the United States) issued two follow-up singles, neither of which made the Top 40. In 1972, Boone was the recipient of the "Most Likeable Singer" award from Rolling Stone magazine. 

Arriving in 1975, "Run Tell the People" b/w "Rock and Roll Bum" was Boone's last single release in the United States, though he remained active in the U.K. through the '70s and into the early '80s. While Boone's recording career faded out, he continued to work as a songwriter and had  a working relationship with David Byron (Uriah Heep), and co-wrote and produced Byron’s 1978 solo album Baby Faced Killer. The pair also worked on a number of disco/dance releases under such names as Warlord, The Intergalactic Orchestra, and Technique who scored a hit with “Michael Angelo”. Boone ended the ’70s with his 1979 solo album All My Own Work (a Canada only release). 

In the ’80s, as Boone, he released a solo album in 1985 “I’m Only Looking,” and played on Peter Green’s (ex Fleetwood Mac) 1983 album Kolors. He also co-wrote 2 tracks that appeared on the first Byron Band single, as well as co-wrote and appeared on releases by guitarist Robin George. Boone continued his career as a composer and, in 1992 he collaborated with Larry Page to provide The Troggs with two songs for their Athens Andover album ("Tuned into Love" and "Hot Stuff"). 

Boone died in Paignton, Devon on 27 January 2023, at the age of 80 due to heart failure. 

(Edited from Wikipedia & AllMusic)