Chart entered : 7 June 1962
Chart peak : 41
Number of hits : 11
This isn't working is it ? I'll have to change my methodology.
Vincent was born in Coventry in 1937. He became a 15 year old pub singer in Kent but also worked as a baker, driver and miner. He did his national service as a singer with the Royal Signals Band after which he found work in musicals. He joined the vocal group The Raindrops in 1958 who worked on radio and TV but didn't record. Vince left to go solo at the end of 1961.
"The River's Run Dry" was his first record. It was written by his Raindrop colleague Johnny Worth ( as Les Vandyke ). The singer tells his girl that he won't let her back in his life. I was expecting a dreary ballad but instead , after a startling string intro, it's a perfectly acceptable piece of early-sixties teen pop with an above-average singer.
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