Tag: Paul Walters

June 2024, Tony Bramwell, one the most important people behind the success of Eva Cassidy’s Songbird album died. Tony’s last post on X (@BeatlesFriend) was not about the Beatles but about Eva Cassidy’s last gig at Jillian’s Sports Bar in Annapolis: ‘When Eva’s final notes evaporated the barman sighed and …

Eva Cassidy’s success in the UK started when Terry Wogan played songs from her album Songbird on his BBC radio 2 breakfast show in the summer of 1998. Top record promotor Tony Bramwell had given up his retirement to make sure that the Songbird album would get the attention it …

The huge response to Eva’s music was down to Terry Wogan’s (1938 – 2016) support for her. However, the first song by Eva that Wogan played was not ‘Over The Rainbow’, as most would assume, but ‘Autumn Leaves’ during the last week of August 1998. The following week he played …