Eamonn Andrews

• Born: December 19, 1922, Dublin, Ireland
• Died: November 05, 1987
• Active: '50s, '60s
• Genres: Easy Listening
• Instrument: Performer, Handbells

Biography

Eamonn Andrews CBE was born in Dublin on the 19th of December 1922. Beginning his career as a boxer, after he realised he could not earn enough money as a sportsman, he turned his attention to sports journalism and became a commentator on Radio Éireann in Dublin. Moving to the BBC in 1950, his first success was as the quiz-master on the radio program Ignorance is Bliss. Amazingly in the mid 1950s for a very brief period, (actually three weeks), he reached the pop charts with his recording of the spoken word tale of The Shifting Whispering Sands, recorded with Ron Goodwin & his Orchestra which hit the top 20 early in 1956. He eventually became one of televisions most successful and moved loved and admired presenters and personalities, fronting the shows What's My life, World Of Sport, Crackerjack, his own late night chat show, The Eamonn Andrews Show and perhaps most famously of all, the biography show, This Is Your Life with the big red book telling the life story of entertainers and sportsmen and also unsung heroes with an interesting story to tell in two stints between 1955-1964 and again when the show was revived in 1969 until he died on the 5th of November 1987 of heart failure. ~ Sharon Mawer, All Music Guide