Doug Sheldon

Doug Sheldon was among the last successful members of the generation of teen pop crooners -- which included Adam Faith, John Leyton, and Craig Douglas -- to come along in the early-'60s England, immediately prior to the advent of the Merseybeat boom. An actor by training, his singing career happened almost by accident, yet he managed to record almost two-dozen sides for English Decca in the first half of the '60s. Sheldon was born in Stepney, London in 1936, the son of a carnival fairground owner -- from age 15 on, he lived in the seaside town of Skegness, Lincolnshire, and wo...