Emile Ford & The Checkmates

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Michael Emile Telford Miller (16 October 1937 – 11 April 2016), known professionally as Emile Ford, was a musician and singer born in Saint Lucia. He was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of Emile Ford & the Checkmates, who had a number one hit in late 1959 with "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?". He was also a pioneering sound engineer. Emile Ford was born in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West Indies. He was the son of Barbadian politician, Frederick Edward Miller, and Madge Murray, a singer and musical theatre director whose father had founded and conducted the St. Lucia Philharmonic Band. His mother married again, taking the name of Sweetnam; some sources erroneously give Emile Ford's birth name as Sweetnam or Sweetman. He was educated at St Mary’s College, Castries. He moved to London with his mother and family in the mid-1950s, partly motivated by his desire to explore improved sound reproduction technology, and studied at the Paddington Technical College in London.[4] It was during this time that he taught himself to play a number of musical instruments, including guitar, piano, violin, bass guitar and drums. Using an abbreviated form of his name, as Emile Ford, he first entered show business at the age of 20, and made his first public performance at the Buttery, Kensington. His first appearance with a backing group was at the Athenaeum Ballroom in Muswell Hill. His TV appearances in 1958 included outings on Th

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What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes At Me For?

The Best Of (Remastered)

Counting Teardrops (The Pye/Piccadilly Anthology)

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Magical Memories For Mum

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Greatest Hits Of The Millennium: 60s (Vol. 1 CD1)

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100 Huge Hits Of The 60s & 70s

25 Greatest Hits

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The 59 Special

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Joe Meek - The Alchemist Of Pop

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Joe Meek The Alchemist Of Pop Cd1

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1960 British Hit Parade: Part 1

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Top 100 Hits - Rock And Roll

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