MARTY WILDE - RECORD ALBUM SLEEVE SIGNED - HFSID 137418

MARTY WILDE
45 RPM seven inch single with Bad Boy and It's Been Nice, signed by teen idol Marty Wilde on the sleeve. Bad Boy was Wilde's only song to chart in the United States.
Record album sleeve signed "Marty/Wilde" in blue ink. Pencil notations at top edge of sleeve and black ink notations on both sides of label in unknown hand. 6¾-diameter record with color label, in a 7x7 printed paper sleeve. 45 RPM Phillips Minigroove single with Bad Boy by Marty Wilde on the A side and It's Been Nice by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman on the B side, both performed by Wilde. Made by Phillips Records. Bad Boy reached No.7 on the U. K. charts and was Wildes' only song to chart in the United States. British musician Wilde, born Reginald Leonard Smith in 1939, came to London at the beginning of the rock and roll explosion in England. He was 17 years old and performing for a pound and a meal a night at the Condor Club when he met promoter Larry Parnes. Parnes changed Smith's name to Marty Wilde and, until the end of the 1950s, he and his band the Wild Cats managed to compete against heavyweights like Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard. Wilde was a teen idol but had a dark and more brooding voice; it served him well on his 1958 hit Bad Boy, which even broke into the Top 50 in the United States and has been since been covered by Nirvana and rockabilly singer Robert Gordon. But Wilde's teen idol cred sank after he married Joyce Baker of the Vernons Girls in 1959, and Liverpool's Mersey Beat made him yesterday's flavor by 1963. During his time in the sun, though, Wilde charted 11 singles in England between 1958 and 1962, including five Top 10 hits. He continued to record, but found greater success as a composer for other artists. His daughter is singer Kim Wilde. Record is lightly scratched. Label is lightly worn and has adhesive residue and paper loss. Sleeve is lightly toned, stained and creased. Lightly torn in top right corner. Rounded and worn corners. Otherwise in fine condition.