1 July 2015(2015-07-01) (aged 88) Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Genres
Traditional pop
easy listening
swing
country
novelty songs
Years active
1951–2009
Labels
Decca, Pye, Philips, RCA, Parkfield
Website
valdoonican.com
Musical artist
Michael Valentine Doonican[1] (3 February 1927 – 1 July 2015) was an Irish singer of traditional pop, easy listening and novelty songs, who was noted for his warm and relaxed vocal style.
A crooner, he found popular success, especially in the United Kingdom where he had five successive Top 10 albums in the 1960s as well as several hits on the UK Singles Chart, including
"Walk Tall", Elusive Butterfly and If the Whole World Stopped Loving.
The Val Doonican Show, his eponymous variety programme, featured his singing and a selection of guests, and it had a long and successful run on BBC Television from 1965 to 1986. Doonican won the Variety Club of Great Britain's BBC-TV Personality of the Year award three times.[1]
^ abColin Larkin (2011), "Doonican, Val", The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Omnibus Press, ISBN 9780857125958
Tall", Elusive Butterfly and If the Whole World Stopped Loving. The ValDoonican Show, his eponymous variety programme, featured his singing and a selection...
comedy band The Bar-Steward Sons of ValDoonican (2010) Strong Arm Of The Law (with The Bar-Steward Sons of ValDoonican - on the album 'Cpl Kipper's Barnsley...
AS Val, a Soviet assault rifle Val, album by ValDoonicanVAL (band), Belarusian pop duo Val (given name), a unisex given name Rafael Merry del Val (1865–1930)...
and Jessie Reid The Ayoub Sisters Baby Queen The Bar-Steward Sons of ValDoonican B.C. Camplight Billie Marten Caity Baser The Cat Empire Cut Capers The...
Bar-Steward Sons of ValDoonican, Maartin Allcock, Eliza Carthy, Hugh Whitaker and Graham Oliver, on The Bar-Steward Sons of ValDoonican 2008-2018 (2018...
including Frankie Howerd (Robert Forknall), Eleanor Bron (Emma Humpston), ValDoonican (Mike Prior), Spike Milligan (Alexander Jonas) and John Fortune (Nathan...
female music managers. She managed singers Adam Faith, Sandie Shaw and ValDoonican, and composer John Barry, among others. She was born in London in 1915...
Silvio Berlusconi Tom Jones Tony Bennett Tony Clifton Tony Martin ValDoonicanVal Rosing Vaughn De Leath Vaughn Monroe Vic Damone Wayne Newton Whispering...
World). "O'Rafferty's Motor Car" – recorded by ValDoonican "Paddy McGinty's Goat" – recorded by ValDoonican "The Peeler and the Goat" – an old song recorded...
Obituary". "Ray Charles' World of Music (1979)". "Christmas Eve With ValDoonican (1986)". "Postman Pat's ABC (1990)". "Postman Pat's 123 (1990)". "Read...
14 May 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021. "Scott Doonican's Big Neet In". The Bar-Steward Sons of ValDoonican. Retrieved 25 June 2021. Brierley, Mark. "Frank...
worked outside of Top of the Pops, notably for two years on the ValDoonican show – Doonican said in 1968 “I thought the Gojos were fabulous, something really...
in the British Isles by ValDoonican, with both the Lind and Doonican versions reaching a UK chart peak of number 5 - Doonican's subsequent to Lind's -...
Camaro Bang Camaro 2007 — The Bar-Steward Sons of ValDoonican The Bar-Steward Sons of ValDoonican/2008-2018 2018 "Morris Dance" Billy Bauer Plectrist...
1985: The Royal Variety Performance 1985: Night of 100 Stars 1985: The ValDoonican Show 1985: The Bob Monkhouse Show 1985: Pebble Mill At One 1985: Tom...
Chart had competition not arisen from established Irish recording artist ValDoonican, who released a cover version of the song at the same time. In the end...
The Bar-Steward Sons of ValDoonican: Jump Ararnd (2013) The Rails: Fair Warning (2014) The Bar-Steward Sons of ValDoonican: The Devil Went Darn To Barnsley...
night of one hundred stars". The Stage. 18 December 1980. p. 39. "The ValDoonican Music Show – BBC One London". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 17 May 1980. Retrieved...
"Maggie Gove", a parody by UK comedy folk-band The Bar-Steward Sons of ValDoonican, appears on their 2022 album Rugh & Ryf. The anti-hero in this version...
in Concert (TV show) (1970) The Mike Douglas Show (June 3, 1970) The ValDoonican Show (July 3, 1971) Tom Jones Variety Special #5 (July 15, 1971) Beat-Club...
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