They each provided well known songs during this period, in addition to the singles, Pinder's songs " A Simple Game " ( 1968 ) & " So Deep Within You " ( 1969 ) were successfully covered by The Four Tops, Pinder winning an Ivor Novello Award for " A Simple Game ", Elkie Brooks later covered Hayward's " Nights in White Satin ".

Siobhan Fahey ( born Máire Siobhan Deirdre Fahey, 10 September 1958, Dublin, Ireland ) is an Irish musician and founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama, and later formed the BRIT Award and Ivor Novello award winning musical outfit Shakespears Sister.

In spring 1908, the veteran Albani toured the English provinces as part of a company containing two budding talents: 10-year-old pianist Marie Novello, who two years later would become one of Theodor Leschetizky's last students, and John McCormack, who only months before had made his own Covent Garden debut.

Having incorporated the firm of Ewer & Co. in 1867, the title was changed to Novello, Ewer & Co., and still later back to Novello & Co., and, on Henry Littleton's death in 1888, his two sons carried on the business.

After a moderately successful international solo career, Dennis later received great success as a writer of pop songs, scoring 8 UK number ones and winning five Ivor Novello Awards.

Vincent Price, Harry Bartell and Jeff Corey were heard in the chilling " Three Skeleton Key " ( broadcast on 17 March 1950 ), the tale of three men trapped in an isolated lighthouse by thousands of rats ; the half-hour was adapted from an Esquire short story by the French writer George Toudouze and later remade for the 9 August 1953 broadcast starring William Conrad, Ben Wright and Jay Novello.

He sang at The Royal Albert Hall on 9 August 2012 in a Prom conducted by Mark Elder, dedicated to the songs of Ivor Novello, later broadcast on BBC TV.

Shearing remained fit and active well into his later years and continued to perform, even after being honoured with an Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993.

They supplemented their win by opening the show with " Take Your Mama " on a set made by The Jim Henson Company and returned in 2007, opening the ceremony with " I Don't Feel Like Dancin '" which later won the Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work.

– opened 6 April 1999 at the Prince Edward Theatre, moving later to the Prince of Wales Theatre and now at the Novello Theatre – 13th year

There she starred in Jerome Kern's Music in the Air ( 1933 ) and then went on to her best known singing roles as the heroine of three Ivor Novello operettas, Glamorous Night ( 1935 ), The Dancing Years ( 1939 ) and Arc de Triomphe ( 1943 ).

In the same year, he and Hill released " Think Twice " by Celine Dion, which went on to become a massive hit and won an Ivor Novello Award for " Best Song Musically and Lyrically ".

The song went on to win the Ivor Novello Award for the biggest selling single of 2001, however despite finding renewed success by writing for other artists, Clarkson did not care for the audition based manufactured pop process which spawned them ;

Born in Chicago, Illinois, as Michael Romano, of Italian descent, Novello began his career as a radio actor, having played Jack Packard on the Hollywood version of I Love a Mystery for a brief period in the middle 1940s.

Novello has appeared as Sarducci on many television shows since then, including Married ... with Children, Blossom, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Unhappily Ever After, Square Pegs and The Colbert Report.

His first work, a collection of Sacred Music, as performed at the Royal Portuguese Chapel, which appeared in 1811, has the additional interest of dating the founding of the publishing firm Novello & Co which carries his name, as he issued the collection from his own house ; and he did the same with succeeding works, till his son Joseph Alfred Novello ( 1810 – 1896 ), who had started as a bass singer, became a regular music publisher in 1829.

In 1916, she appeared in her first film as Julia Lovelace in Her Greatest Performance and continued to act in London and on tour, also making a few more films through 1922, including The Invasion of Britain ( 1918 ), Pillars of Society ( 1920 ), Victory and Peace, Potter's Clay ( 1922 ), and The Bohemian Girl as Buda the nursemaid, with Ivor Novello and Gladys Cooper ( 1922 ).

Movie character actors appeared occasionally, including Jay Novello, Hans Conried, Frank Nelson, Leon Belasco, William Conrad, Edgar Barrier, and Billy Halop.

The show starred Novello, Margaret Rutherford, Olive Gilbert, Roma Beaumont, Muriel Barron and Bobbie Andrews, and veteran actress Zena Dare appeared in the piece as Charlotte Fayre.

Throughout the war, many well-known artists performed in the Royal Court, including Ivor Novello, Margot Fonteyn, John Gielgud and Richard Burton who appeared in an Emlyn Williams production.

) Other major contributors included Harry Shearer as well as writers Al Franken and Tom Davis ( longtime writing partners who had given themselves meatier roles as the heavyweights departed ) and Don Novello, a writer whose " Father Guido Sarducci " character was especially popular and appeared repeatedly during the fifth season.

She also appeared in England in tours of two Ivor Novello musicals, Glamorous Night and The Dancing Years, the latter playing a season at the Saville Theatre in London.

In the same year was produced his cantata Undine at the Norwich Festival, in which Clara Novello appeared in public for the last time.

He appeared in several concerts for The Ivor Novello Appreciation Bureau at Littlewick Green.

Novello appeared twice on The Andy Griffith Show, as the main character in the episode entitled " Guest of Honor " and as an opportunist lawyer in " Otis Sues the County ".

Novello also appeared in several episodes of ABC's Lawman, with John Russell and Peter Brown.

Back to Black produced numerous nominations, including two BRIT Awards ( Best Female Solo Artist and Best British Album ), six Grammy Awards ( including five wins ), four Ivor Novello Awards, four MTV Europe Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, three World Music Awards, and was nominated for the Mercury Prize ( Album of the Year ) and a MOBO Awards ( Best UK Female ).

After the war, Novello contributed numbers to several successful musical comedies and was eventually commissioned to write the scores of complete shows.

As a boy, Novello was a successful singer in the Welsh Eisteddfod.

In 1928 Novello starred in the silent adaptation of Coward's much more successful The Vortex, and made his last silent film, A South Sea Bubble.

" Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians writes of Novello that he was " until the advent of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the 20th-century's most consistently successful composer of British musicals.

By a combination of artistic excellence and quiet husbandry, including a year-long Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival ( begun in April 2006 in collaboration with other theatre companies ) plus a financially successful London season at the Novello Theatre in 2006, Boyd slowly rebuilt the company's fortunes and reputation.

Other films in which Novello starred included Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger ( 1926 ), where he played the sinister title character, and Downhill ( 1927 ).

In addition, he has won two Ivor Novello Awards for song composition and has been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for his songwriting for films.

She played leading roles in five British films in 1933 at Warner Bros .' Teddington studios and for Julius Hagen at Twickenham, including in The Ghost Camera with John Mills and I Lived with You with Ivor Novello.

Since then Friday and Seezer composed the score for the Jim Sheridan films The Boxer and In America which was nominated for Best Original Film Score in the 2004 Ivor Novello Awards.

Though prolific in the movies, Novello was limited mostly to bits in minor films, one of his more noteworthy assignments being the officious Spanish consul in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles.

They were awarded an Ivor Novello Award for " Outstanding Contribution to British Music " in 1977, as well as a " Lifetime Achievement Award " at the 42nd Annual Ivor Novello awards ceremony in 1997.

In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Novello wrote " Keep the Home Fires Burning ", a song that expressed the feelings of innumerable families sundered by World War I. Novello composed the music for the song to a lyric by the American Lena Guilbert-Ford, and it became a huge popular success, bringing Novello money and fame at the age of 21.

Glamorous Night starred Novello and Mary Ellis, with a cast including Zena Dare, Olive Gilbert and Elizabeth Welch, and ran from 2 May 1935 to 18 July 1936, at Drury Lane and then the London Coliseum.

The last of Novello's pre-war musicals was The Dancing Years, which starred Novello, Ellis and Gilbert, opened at Drury Lane, closed on the outbreak of the Second World War, and re-opened at the Adelphi Theatre, running for a combined total of 696 performances, closing on 8 July 1944.

This show was the closest Novello came to fulfilling his mother's early ambitions for him to write operas ; he played an Austrian composer-conductor at the Wiener Hofoper.

Novello died suddenly from a coronary thrombosis at the age of 58, a few hours after completing a performance in the run of King's Rhapsody.

He was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium, and his ashes are buried beneath a lilac bush and marked with a plaque that reads " Ivor Novello 6th March 1951 ' Till you are home once more '.

A scholarship in memory of Novello was established at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and in 1952 a bronze bust of him by Clemence Dane was unveiled at Drury Lane.

Daldry's production was revived in London at the Novello Theatre in September 2009 with a new cast, though retaining McNeil's original sets and staging.

Daldry's production was revived at the Novello Theatre in London for an eight-week run from September 25, 2009 ( following previews from September 22 ) through November 14, 2009 and, according to Playbill. com, will transfer to Wyndham's Theatre on December 3 for a run through March 20, 2010.

Don Novello created the Father Guido Sarducci character in 1973 after finding a monsignor's outfit for $ 7. 50 at a St. Vincent de Paul thrift shop.

Many of these letters received serious responses ; Novello sometimes continued the charade correspondence at length, with humorous results.

Novello created the character in 1973, after he purchased the outfit ( consisting of big floppy black hat, white clerical collar, and a long, red-trimmed black coat with cape ) for $ 7. 50 at a St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store.

Novello also released two comedy albums as Sarducci: Breakfast in Heaven and Live at St. Douglas Convent.

While the Smothers themselves were at the forefront of these efforts, credit also goes to the roster of writers and regular performers they brought to the show, including Steve Martin, Don Novello (" Father Guido Sarducci "), Rob Reiner, Presidential candidate Pat Paulsen, Bob Einstein (" Super Dave Osborne ", " Marty Funkhouser ", and " Officer Judy "), Einstein's brother, Albert ( who works professionally as Albert Brooks ), and resident hippie Leigh French (" Share a Little Tea with Goldie ").

At the 2006 Ivor Novello Awards he criticised pop musicians at the event for performing too loudly and using too many clichés.