Humperdinck’s Success
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, July 8.
The pop singer, Englebert Humperdinck, has signed a contract worth about $4.3m for a television series for America.
The series, to be made in England, will put Humperdinck, aged 31—real name Gerry Dorsey—in the same money - earning bracket as Tom Jones.
Humperdinck was virtually unknown two years ago. He got his lucky break when a singer became ill before a London Palladium television show, and he was called in as a replacement
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32035, 9 July 1969, Page 2
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