Russ Hamilton

Russ Hamilton was a singer/songwriter of the late '50s who tasted brief chart success in both the U.K. and the U.S. with different sides of the same record. He was born Ronald Hulme in Liverpool on January 29, 1932, and made his first tentative steps in show business as a Butlins Redcoat entertainer. He and a few other staff put together a skiffle group, and after completing his national service, he cut his first disc, the teen ballad "We Will Make Love," which climbed to number two in the summer of 1957. Surprisingly, it was the B-side, "Rainbow," that proved the more popular...