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Artist
Gordon Mills
12+ albums
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Mills' success began in the 1950s. He also wrote hit singles in the 1960s, recorded by some of the more successful singers known. Mills' own album, Do It Yourself was recorded, but never released. Some of his songs were later recorded by Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck. Mills began playing the harmonica, taught to him by his mother Lorna, (Gordon was her only child). His parents had met and married in India, when his father was there working in the British Army. They returned to England shortly after Gordon's birth. At fifteen, Gordon joined his first group, playing in the local pubs and clubs in South Wales. Then at the age of seventeen Mills was called up for National Service, left his then home town of Tonypandy in South Wales and served in Germany and Malaya. Gordon Mills Upon his return, he read in a music magazine that Hohner were staging a British Championship at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He came second up and he went on to Europe to represent the UK. He won the championship and upon his return was asked to join the Morton Fraser Harmonica Gang where he met Don Paul and Ronnie Wells. Together they formed a trio known as The Viscounts. They achieved some fame for the song "Who Put the Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" which was a minor hit in the UK Singles Chart. The Viscounts were one of the vocal groups in the 1960s and achieved their first hit with their cover of "Short'nin' Bread". Mills wrote some songs, with his first "I'll Never Get Over You", recorde
