Harvey Andrews

Harvey John Andrews (born 7 May 1943 in Stechford, Birmingham) is an English singer-songwriter and poet. Andrews has produced 16 albums singing his own songs, many of which have also been recorded by other artists....From 1964, Andrews supported his nascent career as a singer-songwriter by working as a schoolteacher, before becoming a full-time professional musician in 1966.
He has appeared at many festivals around the world. Television appearances include the Old Grey Whistle Test, Rhythm on Two and over 50 other shows. He has made two television specials featuring his songs, The Camera and The Song, and The Same Old Smile. Two further specials were produced in the Netherlands and Ireland. He sang "Riding Free", the theme song from the cult British horror movie Psychomania in 1973, and wrote and sang the theme songs for two Australian TV series, Golden Pennies (1985) and The Haunted School (1986). He has hosted BBC Radio Two's Folk on Two and a Radio Four Kaleidoscope special was devoted to his work. 
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== Links to Peel ==
Harvey Andrews was a well-known name on the folk scene but didn't record an LP under his own name until 1970, for Decca's Nova label. Two albums followed in 1972 and 1973 on the Cube label, newly founded by music publisher David Platz, who had recently had major success with T Rex on Fly Records, until Marc Bolan decided to start his own record label. Cube's signings included Andrews and Peel favourites the JSD Band. 
It was during this period that Harvey Andrews did two sessions for Peel, the second one credited jointly to the singer and Graham Cooper, who was his regular partner on stage and on record in the mid-1970s. As well as the sessions, Andrews also did three Radio One In Concert programmes, in 1973, 1975 and 1976, but after that his name seems to vanish from Peel's playlists.
== Festive Fifty Entries ==
*None
== Sessions ==
*Two sessions. In Ken Garner's The Peel Sessions, the second is credited to "Harvey Andrews and Graham Cooper". No known commercial release.
1. Recorded 1972-07-17. First broadcast 15 August 1972.
*Gift Of A Brand New Day / Unaccompanied / Hey Sandy / I Used To Revolve At 78rpm But Now It's Down To 33⅓ / Don’t Know The Time
2. Recorded 1973-05-21. First broadcast 14 June 1973. Repeated: 26 July 1973.
*Whisky Jack / The Mallard / Down So Long It Looks Like Up / Headlines 
== Other Shows Played ==
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*04 July 1972: In The Darkness (single) Cube
*24 May 1973: Requiem (LP – Friends Of Mine) Cube
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Facebook page
Category:Artists