Summary: The Cuban-born singer and musician moved to Adelaide several years ago from Liverpool. Not to be confused with the keyboard player from “The Shadows”.
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Clifford Samuel Hall
Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, GB
Known For: Member of the English group – “The Spinners”
Instruments: Guitar
Music Styles: Folk, Rock
Location: Australia
Date Born: 11th September 1925
Location Born: Oriente Province
Date Died: 26th June 2008
Location Died: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Cliff Hall
A member and singer, guitarist with the pioneering folk group The Spinners.
Their many achievements, The Spinners was the first multiracial singing group to have a major success in the UK. Cliff Hall, their West Indian singer and guitarist, brought many songs from the Caribbean to their repertoire and although they are known as a Liverpool folk group, only one of The Spinners, Hughie Jones, was born in the city.
Hall was born in Oriente Province, Cuba, of Jamaican parents, in 1925.
In 1953 he met Tony Davis, who invited him to hear his jazz group in Liverpool, and Hall was soon joining in on bongos. This led to the formation of The Spinners with Hall, Davis, Jones, Mick Groves and, initially, a girl singer, Jacqui MacDonald.
The Spinners released many albums during the 1960s including concert performances from Liverpool, Folk at The Phil 1964, The Family of Man 1966.
In 1965, when they were recording an album, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders asked if they could borrow Cliff for a few minutes and he added the deep-voiced “love” on their Top 10 single, “Game of Love”.
In 1988, The Spinners disbanded with their album Final Fling, although there was the occasional reunion.
Cliff later settled in Adealide, South Australia.
Clifford Hall, died Adelaide, South Australia in June 2008. He was 82.
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