Tag: Tony Bramwell

From the Beatles to Eva Cassidy: Tony Bramwell (1941-2024)

Tony and Eva

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 …

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The success of Eva Cassidy’s Songbird

Songbird

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 …

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Twenty years ago: Songbird number one!

Eva Cassidy Songbird

In November 2000 Blix Street Records sent record plugger Tony Bramwell the videotape that Bryan McCulley had made of the band’s live recording for Live At Blues Alley. Eva’s performance of ‘Over The Rainbow’ that night was far from perfect, with problems in image and sound quality, but it was …

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