Raymond William Froggatt (born 13 November 1941) is an English songwriter and singer.Froggatt (otherwise known as "Froggy") was born in Bordesley Green, Birmingham.
He began performing rock and roll in the early 1960s before moving on to focus on Country and Western.
His band, initially known as the Buccaneers, later Monopoly and ultimately The Raymond Froggatt Band with guitarist Hartley Cain (H Cain) , drummer Len Ablethorpe and whose bassist was Louis Clark of Electric Light Orchestra and Hooked on Classics fame, were signed by Polydor in 1964.
However chart success eluded them, although the Dave Clark Five had a No.
7 hit in the UK Singles Chart with Froggatt's "The Red Balloon" in 1968.
His own version of the song, under the title "Callow la Vita", reached No.
3 in the Netherlands,
Another Froggatt song, "Big Ship", was a No.
8 UK hit for Cliff Richard in 1969, and in the same year Froggatt's composition "Rachel" became a popular song in Australia and New Zealand when it was released by the Australian artist Russell Morris.In the 1970s the band was managed by Don Arden, hoping to break into the United States music scene, but the experience led to the collapse of the band.
He later became an internationally recognised country music performer, releasing Here's to Everyone (1993) on his Red Balloon record label.
Froggatt's autobiography, Raymond Who, followed in 1995.He now lives in Telford, England.
DISCOGRAPHY
1968 The Voice And Writings Of Raymond Froggatt
1972 Bleach
1974 Rogues And Thieves
1978 Southern Fried Frog
1979 Songs From A Minstral
1980 Stay With Me
1982 Sooner Or Later
1984 Why?
1988 Is It Rollin' Bob
1991 Here's To Everyone
1993 At The London Palladium
1995 Someday
1996 The Collection
1997 Moonshine
1980 Runaway
1998 Southern Fried Frog & Rogues And Thieves
1998 In Concert At The Birmingham Town Hall
1998 There Goes That Song Again
1999 Now And Then
2002 Milestones
2003 Cold As A Landlord's Heart
2003 Coast To Coast
2003 Shantytown
2004 The Voice And Writing Of Raymond Froggatt
2004 Songland 40
2004 Adaos
2004 Just One Night In Concert Symphony Hall Birmingham
2006 Dream Of You
2007 Songwriter
2007 The Lights Of Amsterdam
2010 Songs With Reasons
2010 Warm Days Summer Nights
2011 Blue And Gold
2011 America
2011 Fields Of Rock And Roll
2012 Movin' On
2013 Birmingham Rain
2014 Closer To You
2015 The Classic Collection Vol 2
2018 In Concert (Hunstanton & Birmingham)