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Myles Rudge
Birth name
Myles Peter Carpenter Rudge
Born
(1926-07-08)8 July 1926
Origin
Bristol, England
Died
10 October 2007(2007-10-10) (aged 81)
Genres
Folk, popular music
Occupation(s)
Songwriter, scriptwriter
Years active
1960–1992
Musical artist
Myles Peter Carpenter Rudge (8 July 1926 – 10 October 2007) was an English songwriter, known for writing the lyrics for novelty songs. His songs "The Hole in the Ground" and "Right Said Fred" were both British Top 10 chart hits in 1962,[1] both recorded by Bernard Cribbins to music by Ted Dicks and produced by George Martin for Parlophone.[2] Another of his songs, "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam", was a hit in 1965 for Ronnie Hilton, and won an Ivor Novello Award in 1966 for the Year's Outstanding Novelty Composition.[3]
^Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 127. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
^Stevens, Christopher (2010). Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams. John Murray. p. 393. ISBN 978-1-84854-195-5.
^"The Ivors 1966". Theivors.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
Myles Peter Carpenter Rudge (8 July 1926 – 10 October 2007) was an English songwriter, known for writing the lyrics for novelty songs. His songs "The...
"The Hole in the Ground" is a comic song written by MylesRudge and composed by Ted Dicks. When recorded by Bernard Cribbins and released by EMI on the...
Lionel Blair in the revue And Another Thing, written by Ted Dicks and MylesRudge. The show brought Cribbins to the attention of Parlophone head George...
Windmill In Old Amsterdam" is a 1965 novelty song written by Ted Dicks and MylesRudge. The song, about a mouse that wears clogs, and arranged in waltz time...
Bernard Cribbins with lyrics by MylesRudge, and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. Another song by Dicks and Rudge, "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam"...
Amsterdam" by Katzenjammer "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam" by Ted Dicks and MylesRudge "Aan de Amsterdamse grachten", lyrics by Pieter Goemans in 1949, composed...
About, while series two, which was entirely original, was written by MylesRudge, David Cumming and Derek Collyer. Stop Messing About was recast as a...
1965, "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam", a song written by Ted Dicks and MylesRudge, became a UK hit for Ronnie Hilton. The song spent a total of 13 weeks...
in 1965 with "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam" written by Ted Dicks and MylesRudge. The latter spent a total of 13 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking...
Grant and Stephen Lewis 29 April 1973 (1973-04-29) 72 11 "The Allowance" MylesRudge 6 May 1973 (1973-05-06) 73 12 "Friends in High Places" George Layton...
on Pleasure Bent 1967, Decca LK 4856. Music by Ted Dicks, lyrics by MylesRudge. Arrangements and musical direction by Barry Booth, sound supervision...
Bryan Izzard. Various people wrote the episodes of this series. Arthur Rudge never appears in this series and Stan Butler only appears until halfway...
are hastily reworked by writers Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke with MylesRudge into a new vehicle for former co-star Kenneth Williams called Stop Messing...
Wagstaff as Ada Seymour Vincent Holman as Briggs Mark Daly as Goodwin MylesRudge as estate agent Jack Taylor as 1st thug Larry Taylor as 2nd thug Robert...
by Pound, Olga Rudge followed the couple to Italy, and in July 1925 she gave birth to a daughter, Maria, in a hospital in Brixen. Rudge and Pound placed...
National Curriculum in British schools, and film versions are being planned. Myles McDowell quotes Layton's The Balaclava Story as an example of how adults...
Tom Finney Award James Coppinger (Doncaster Rovers) Contribution to League football John Rudge Moment of the Season Dean Lewington (Milton Keynes Dons)...
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