Ken Dodd's other life – as a mega-selling singer of romantic ballads

The late comedian’s biggest hits weren’t novelty songs, but earnest romantic ballads that challenged psychedelic pop in a mid-60s generation-gap war From a distance, Ken Dodd’s musical career seems utterly bizarre. You could understand him having a couple of novelty comedy hits along the lines of Tommy Cooper’s Don’t Jump Off the Roof Dad or Charlie Drake’s My Boomerang Won’t Come Back, but Ken Dodd’s records weren’t funny, or at lea...

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