For the evening hour ..... DJ Jerome Ong playing an oldie song from the late 1950s entitled Till The End Of Time sung and popularisd by Earl Grant. The End ( Now called Till The End Of Time ) is a song (music by Jimmy Krondes and lyrics by Sid Jacobson) which was released (in the United States) as a 1958 single by Earl Grant. Grants single on the Decca label, featured Charles Bud Dant on orchestra; some pressings of the single were shown with the title (At) The End (Of A Rainbow). The single was Grants only entry into the U.S. Top 40 reaching number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number sixteen on the R&B chart.[1] He also released a German version of the song, titled Jeder Tag geht zu Ende (Every Day Comes to an End).[2] The song rose to number 12 on the German charts. Nancy Sinatra recorded a cover-version of the song for her 1966 album Nancy in London and in 2007 this version of the song was used in a TV commercial for Vodafone mobile telephone services in the U.K. Steve Lawrences 1973 revival reached #46 in the Billboard Easy Listening survey. Earl Grant (January 20, 1931 – June 10, 1970) was an American pianist, organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Grant was born in Idabel, Oklahoma. Though he would be known later for his keyboards and vocals, Grant also played trumpet and drums. Grant attended four music schools, eventually becoming a music teacher. He augmented his income by performing in clubs during his army service, throughout which he was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas. Grant signed with Decca Records in 1957 and his first single The End reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Ebb Tide, released in 1961, was his first album, which also rose to number 7 on the Billboard 200. The single Ebb Tide sold over one million copies, gaining gold disc status. He recorded five more singles that made the charts, including Swingin Gently (from Beyond the Reef), and six additional albums (mostly on the Decca label) through 1968. He also recorded the album Yes Sirree and the instrumental album Trade Winds, single-tracked on the Hammond organ and piano, featuring the love theme from the film El Cid and Chaplins Eternally. This album featured some realistic sounding tropical bird calls produced by his electric organ. The House of Bamboo was another big-selling single. In all, Grant recorded 30 albums for Decca. Several of his albums featured tenor saxophonist Plas Johnson. Grant also made a few appearances in film and television, including Tender Is the Night (1962), Juke Box Rhythm (1959), and The Ed Sullivan Show (1961). Grant sings the title theme for the 1959 film Imitation of Life in a way very close to an imitation of Nat King Cole He died instantly in a car accident in Lordsburg, New Mexico, at the age of 39 when the car he was driving ran off Interstate 10. He was driving from Los Angeles to an intended destination in Juarez, Mexico. His 17-year-old cousin was also killed in the accident. youtube/watch?v=8DegVjPeZ1w
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