- Singer and songwriter who wrote Top 10 hits for The Dave Clark Five and Cliff Richard. He became a well-known country music artist and recorded about 40 albums.
- Froggatt's first success came with his song "Red Balloon." Unfortunately, though played on local radio stations for two months, it was badly mishandled and never appeared in stores; later the song became a hit for the Dave Clark Five, and then for Marie Laforet in France.
- Chart success eluded the The Raymond Froggatt Band, although the Dave Clark Five had a No. 7 hit in the UK Singles Chart with Froggatt's "The Red Balloon" in 1968. His own original version of the song, under the title "Callow-la-vita", reached No. 3 in the Netherlands.
- Froggatt -later- became an internationally recognised country music performer, releasing Here's to Everyone (1993) on his Red Balloon record label.
- He made his debut singing at a Dunlop factory party and received ten cents for his efforts.
- Froggatt had been working on a musical production based on Shakespeare's life, which Arden sold to ATM Music. It was filmed as a television movie, but never aired.
- In the 1970s, the The Raymond Froggatt Band was managed by Don Arden, hoping to break into the United States music scene, but the experience led to the collapse of the band.
- Music entrepreneur Don Arden Arden put Froggatt on staff for Robbins EMIL Music Publishers and pre-sold all of his future recordings to Warner Brothers. His first single for Warners did nothing, but still the label suggested that he make an album at Richard Branson's Manor studio in Oxford. Rogues and Thieves came out in 1974 and almost made it to the charts, but was for the most part ignored. Arden then made Froggatt and his band tour with the band Wizzard, which played a totally different kind of music. The stress of the tour caused discord with Monopoly and eventually they went their separate ways.
- He left school in the 1950s to work a series of odd jobs.
- Froggatt signed to Bell Records in 1972, where he and his band Monopoly cut their first album, Bleach. The album's first single "The Singer" was mishandled by an inept deejay who accidentally played the record too fast on the Roundtable Show. The panelists had a good laugh and the single died then and there. Still, the album sold fairly well.
- HIS band Monopoly began playing the Birmingham club circuit and became regulars at the Belfry, a popular club. There Monopoly gained a devoted following, and was eventually signed by Polydor Records to a five-year contract in 1964.
- Froggatt's autobiography, Raymond Who, was published in 1995.
- His band, initially known as the Buccaneers, later Monopoly and ultimately The Raymond Froggatt Band with guitarist Hartley Cain (H Cain), drummer Len Ablethorpe and whose bassist was Louis Clark of Electric Light Orchestra and Hooked on Classics fame, were signed by Polydor in 1964.
- He had a recurrence of tuberculosis at age 18, and this time it attacked his kidneys and bladder. While isolated at yet another sanatorium than Yardley, he took up poetry and decided to form a band. After advertising for musicians in the Birmingham Evening Post, he met young guitarist Hartley "H." Cain, bassist Lou Clark, and drummer Len Ablethorpe.
- He began performing rock and roll in the early 1960s before moving on to focus on Country and Western.
- Raymond "Froggy" Froggatt was a singer/songwriter who spent much of his tumultuous career struggling to gain recognition.
- After his Bell contract expired, Froggatt signed with music entrepreneur Don Arden, who was known as a starmaker and could perhaps provide the singer a chance to make it in the U.S.
- Froggatt was a sickly child who spent much of his youth battling tuberculosis in the Yardley Sanatorium.
- Another Froggatt song, "Big Ship", was a No. 8 UK Singles Chart hit for Cliff Richard in 1969, and in the same year Froggatt's composition "Rachel" became a popular song in Australia and New Zealand, when it was released by the Australian artist Russell Morris.
- He ultimately became a very popular figure on the international country music scene.
- Don Arden founded Jet Records in the U.S. and Froggatt moved there. Though he asked to be released from his contract, Arden refused. Not long after, a dishonest business manager bankrupted Froggatt and he was left destitute. His former bandmate Cain encouraged him to talk to Arden, who helped both men get to the U.S. to record Memphis Moonshine. Unfortunately, it was never released.
- Froggatt recorded the album "Southern Fried Frog " with the hopes of catching the U.S. country market. Unfortunately, it was distributed as a rock album.
- In the 80's and 90's he continued to write his own songs and in 1993 released Here's to Everyone on his label.
- In 1979, Froggatt recorded one final album for Arden and was finally released from his contract. He began touring the U.S. as an opening act; though unfavorably received, he didn't let audience hostility stop him. Eventually his persistence paid off and he at last began to get warmer receptions from fans.
- Froggatt started his working days as a pipe lagger, night time would be spent singing in the pubs and secretly writing poetry in his spare time.
- His concerts were sold out across the country and abroad. The "Froggie" followers arrived at the shows clutching their frogs with green scarves waving, certainly a sight to behold.
- He grew up in Birmingham with friends Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne, John Bonham , Lou Clarke and Hartley Cain.
- Still today his songs are recorded by major artists. Performers Leapy Lee, Daniel O'Donnell, Dominic Kirwan and Gladys Knight are among those who have covered his material.
- The songwriter grew up in Birmingham and spent much of his later life in Telford after falling in love with Shropshire (= landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England) while visiting friends, his guitarist Hartley Cain said.
- He was born in Bordesley Green (= an inner-city area of Birmingham).
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