Norrie Paramor

Norrie Paramor was one of EMI's top producers in pop music and rock 'n roll up thru the end of the 1960's. For a time in England, he was the only record producer whose name teenagers might reasonably have been expected to recognize, because of his work in that capacity for more than a decade with pop-rock star Cliff Richard and his backing band, The Shadows. Indeed, he was almost single-handedly responsible for giving EMI's Columbia label the biggest stake in rock 'n roll of any record company in England during the late 1950's and early 1960's, where it had no previous presence in the field, as the discoverer of Cliff Richard & The Shadows. Before that, he was responsible for recording such top 1950's English pop stars as Ruby Murray and Eddie Calvert. And all along, he made best-selling records of instrumental pop and mood music that sold on both sides of the Atlantic.



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