Frank Weir was a British

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 orchestra leader and jazz

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 musician. He reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart

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 in 1954 with Vera Lynn

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 and the song "My Son, My Son", and with positive reviews in Variety

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, Cash Box and Billboard

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.

His version of "The Happy Wanderer" became one of the most popular recordings of 1954, in both the UK

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 and the US

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. It featured Weir's soprano saxophone

Soprano saxophone

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 solos between verses. He released one more single, six years later in 1960, "Caribbean Honeymoon", which reached a peak position of #42 on the UK Singles Chart.

Other recordings

• "Mister Cuckoo" / "If Ever You Go To Paree" - Parlophone
  Parlophone
  Parlophone is a record label that was founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch was formed in 1923 as "Parlophone" which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a leading jazz label. It was acquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which...
  
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• "What a Difference a Day Makes" / "Together" - Decca
  Decca Records
  Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
  
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• "The Never Never Land" / "The Little Shoemaker" - Decca F 10324 (1954)