Half The Day's Gone and We Haven't Earne'd a Penny (Remastered) Kenny Lynch

• 1 Half the Day's Gone and We Haven't Earne'd a Penny (2025 Remastered) 07:15
• 2 Never Give Up On Love (2025 Remastered) 04:36
• 3 Because I Love You (2025 Remastered) 04:23
• 4 Another Groovy Saturday Night (2025 Remastered) 04:38
• 5 Average Man (2025 Remastered) 04:20
• 6 Built to Last (2025 Remastered) 04:33
• 7 Name Your Game (2025 Remastered) 05:02
• 8 Locked into Love (2025 Remastered) 05:33
• 9 They Don't Know You (2025 Remastered) 03:54
• 10 B.A. Woman (2025 Remastered) 04:51
• Total Runtime 49:05

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Kenny Lynch was a popular singer, songwriter, actor and all-round entertainer. A self-styled “black cockney”, Kenny was one of the few people of Caribbean origin prominent in the British entertainment industry during the ‘60s and ‘70s.

During his musical career, Kenny released a number of Top 10 singles, including a version of ‘Up on the Roof’ (1962), competing with the original by the Drifters. He composed and co-wrote songs recorded by Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, the Drifters and the Everly Brothers. He also worked briefly as a songwriter at the Brill Building in New York.

Whilst probably best known as a prolific Pop Crooner during the earlier part of his acting and musical career, we must not forget his stomping disco success of the early eighties, released under British-borne Satril Records. “Half The Day’s Gone, and We Haven’t Earne’d a Penny” was a milestone moment for British Disco. Produced by Kenny himself at Satril Studios, London 1983, this record still encompasses that organic late-70s disco sound, with true instrumentation and minimalist electronic synth elements.

This is the album’s first ever reissue since 1983 and has been remastered in high-definition from the original analogue tapes.

Kenny Lynch

Digitally remastered

Kenny Lynch
was once Britain’s best-known all-around black entertainer. Born 18 March 1939, Stepney, London, England.

Britain’s best-known black all-round entertainer has been a television personality for three decades. The youngest of 13 children, he first appeared on stage at the age of 12 with his sister, singer Maxine Daniels.

At 16, he joined Ed Nichol’s Band before going into the services. In 1957 worked in a string of bands, including Bob Miller’s. He joined HMV Records and hit the UK Top 40 in 1960 with his debut single, a cover of ‘Mountain Of Love’. He appeared in several films and hit his recording peak in 1963 with two successive Top 10 entries, as a cover of “Up On The Roof” and “You Can Never Stop Me Loving You” (which made the US Top 20 when covered by Johnny Tillotson).

Over the next 20 years, he was one of the UK’s busiest and most popular entertainers and was also awarded an OBE. He co-wrote the Small Faces number 1, “Sha La La La Lee” and has recorded spasmodically since then on Columbia, Atlantic Records, Polydor, Laser, Towerbell and Spartan. In 1983, he had a surprise chart return with a Brit-funk track, “Half The Day’s Gone And We Haven’t Earned A Penny”

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