On this day in music history: 8 September
Today's dose of music history celebrates Peter Sellers.
8 September 1925: Peter Sellers was born in Portsmouth, UK. He was an actor and comedian. Sellers first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, featured on several hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series.
Sellers’ first album was ironically called The Best of Sellers. It was released in December 1958, produced by Goerge Martin and often called "the first British comedy LP created in a recording studio".
"I'm So Ashamed" has Sellers in the guise of an eight-year-old singing an inane pop ballad expressing his shame because - despite all the gimmicks he's tried - he hasn't had a top twenty hit in three weeks.
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Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity. ~ Stevie Wonder