Joe Henderson (b. May 2, 1920, Glasgow) was a popular British piano player during the 1950s. May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Glasgows location in Scotland Glasgow (or Glaschu in Gaelic) is Scotlands largest city and unitary council, situated on the River Clyde in the countrys west central lowlands. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the the baby boom from returning GIs who...

Joe was taught to play the piano by his mother and he turned pro at 15, playing in dance bands. After the war he began working for the Peter Maurice publishing company and it was while there that in 1947 he met the singer Petula Clark. In 1949, Joe introduced Petula to Alan A. Freeman who was forming his own record company, Polygon, and it was there that she made her earliest recordings. 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Petula Clark on the cover of her latest DVD/CD release Petula Sally Olwen Clark (born November 15, 1932), CBE, is a British singer, actress, and composer, best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Most well-known for being Petula Clarks producer from 1949 until 1963, when he was taken over by Tony Hatch. ... Polygon Records was one of the first British independent record labels. ...

In 1955, Petula insisted to Alan that Joe be allowed to make his own records and he enjoyed two chart hits on Polygon: Sing It With Joe and Sing It Again With Joe, both medleys of popular songs. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A medley is a collection of related but different things, served as one. ...

It was around this time that Petula and Joe became romantically involved. The romance lasted a couple of years, culminating professionally in a weekly BBC radio series in which they performed together. In 1994, a fourteen-minute medley of Pet singing while Joe played piano was found in the Pye vaults and released on the Petula Clark set The Nixa Years Volume 2, and it is assumed this recording was made around 1958. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

Speculation became rife that Joe and Petula were to marry. However, with the increasing glare of being in the public spotlight, and Petula's increasing fame (her stardom in France was just beginning) Joe decided to call the whole thing off, reportedly not wanting to end up as "Mr Petula Clark". In 1962, he penned a song about their break-up for Petula's LP In Other Words, called There's Nothing More To Say.

Joe's biggest hit was with Trudie, which made #14 in the record charts and #1 in the sheet music charts, where it was the biggest hit of 1958. The song also won an Ivor Novello Award. Sheet music is written representation of music. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are prizes awarded for songwriting and composing. ...

He continued to work through the 1960s and 1970s until May 4, 1980, when he sadly died of a heart attack, aged 60. The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...