Billy Cotton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Billy Cotton

bandleader

Date of Birth: 06-May-1899

Place of Birth: Smith Square, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Mar-1969

Profession: conductor, bandleader, association football player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

William Edward Cotton (6 May 1899 – 25 March 1969) as Billy Cotton was an English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the British dance band era.
Cotton is now mainly remembered as a 1950s and 1960s radio and television personality, but his musical career had begun in the 1920s.
In his younger years Billy Cotton was also an amateur footballer (soccer player) for Brentford (and later, for the then Athenian league club Wimbledon), an accomplished racing driver and the owner of a Gipsy Moth, which he piloted himself.
His autobiography, I Did It My Way, was published in 1970, a year after his death.