Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson

Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson

Joe Henderson (May 2, 1920 – May 4, 1980) was a popular British pianist, especially during the 1950s.

Henderson was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He was taught to play the piano by his mother and became a professional at age fifteen, playing in dance bands. After World War II, he began working for the Peter Maurice publishing company. It was there that he met singer Petula Clark in 1947. In 1949, Henderson introduced Clark to Alan A. Freeman, who together with her father Leslie forming the Polygon label, for which she recorded her earliest hits.

In 1955, Clark suggested Henderson be allowed to record his own music, and he enjoyed two chart hits on Polygon, "Sing It With Joe" and "Sing It Again With Joe," both s of popular songs.

It was around this time that the two became involved romantically. Their relationship lasted a couple of years, professionally culminating in a BBC Radio series in which they performed together. Speculation that the couple planned to marry became rife. However, with the increasing glare of being in the public spotlight, and Clark's growing fame (her career in France was just beginning), Henderson — reportedly not wanting to end up as "Mr. Petula Clark" — decided to call the whole thing off. They remained on friendly terms, and in 1962 he penned a ballad about their break-up, called "There's Nothing More To Say," for Clark's's LP "In Other Words".

Joe's biggest hit was "Trudie," which made #14 in the record charts and #1 in the sheet music charts, where it was the biggest hit of 1958. The song also won an Ivor Novello Award.

He continued to work through the 1960s and 1970s until May 4, 1980, when he died of a heart attack, aged 60.

In 1994, a fourteen-minute medley of Clark singing while accompanied by Henderson, recorded circa 1958, was found in the Pye Records vaults and released on her CD, "The Nixa Years: Volume 2".

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