Artist Info: Thomas Criddle

Thomas was born in Edmonton, London and, at the age of fourteen-and-­a-half, took first prize in a talent competition at the Granada Empire Cinema, Edmonton, singing Because. The organist, Andrew Fenner happened to be playing and, two weeks later, the manager of Granada, Sydney Bernstein came to see Criddle's father with a view to the boy touring the cinemas.

Thomas was soon on the BBC; his first broadcast was with Albert Sandler at the Palm Court Hotel studio in Lower Regent Street. [read more...]