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Eden Kane
Eden Kane was born Richard Sarstedt in India, but returned with his parents to England while he was still a child. Although he formed a skiffle group with his younger brothers Peter and Robin his first recording was sponsored by Cadbury; 'Hot Chocolate Crazy'- an advertising jingle used on Radio Luxembourg. By this time he had created the name 'Eden Kane' for himself, inspired according to legend Citizen Kane. His natural good looks enabled him
to get a part in the 1960 film 'Drinks All Round', but then came the opportunity
to record Well I Ask You which was penned by UK songwriter, Les Vandyke.
The song reached number one on 3 August 1961. The similar sounding Get
Lost also found its way into the Top 10. In an attempt to escape being
musically typecast, Kane drooped his growling trademark on his next single, Forget
Me Not (whic Eden and his wife Charlene have now made their permanent home in Los Angeles. However, he still makes regular trips back to the UK for concert appearances. Eden Kane was also a contract actor on the Star Trek team and made many appearances in the TV series under his real name of Richard Sarstedt. His brother, Peter Sarstedt got to number one himself in 1969 with Where Do You Go To My Lovely; whilst the youngest brother Clive (who called himself Robin Sarstedt) reached the top three in 1976 with his rendition of Hoagy Carmichael classic, My Resistance Is Low. See Eden Kane sing 'Forget Me Not': http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=nT2iNhcaj0Y
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he considered to be the best song Johnny Worth had ever written) saying 'With
this record I hope I can obliterate the fallacy that I am essentially a
growler. I only growled on the first two hits because it suited the
songs'. His next single, a revival of Wayne King's 1931 hit, I don't
Know Why also climbed into the Top 10. For the next eighteen months a number of singles
failed to chart, and a cha