Frank Ifield
{{short description|Yodeling singer (1937–2024)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Frank Ifield
| image = Frank Ifield.jpg
| honorific_suffix = OAM
| landscape =
| birth_name = Francis Edward Ifield
| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|11|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = Coundon, Coventry, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|05|18|1937|11|30|df=y}}
| death_place = Sydney, Australia
| genre = {{flatlist|
- Country
- easy listening
}}
| occupation = Musician
| instrument = {{flatlist|
- Vocals
- guitar
}}
| years_active = 1953–1986
| label = {{flatlist|
}}
| associated_acts = Dick Carr Buckaroos
| website = {{URL|frankifield.com}}
}}
Francis Edward Ifield OAM (30 November 1937 – 18 May 2024) was a British-born Australian country music singer and guitarist who often incorporated yodelling into his music.
Born in the United Kingdom, Ifield grew up in rural Australia where he started performing hillbilly music in his teens. He released singles which were successful in Australia and New Zealand. He returned to the UK in 1959 where he had four number-one hits on the UK Singles Chart in the early 1960s with his cover versions of "I Remember You", "Lovesick Blues", "The Wayward Wind" and "Confessin' That I Love You".
In 1986, he contracted pneumonia, which resulted in removal of part of a lung and damage to his vocal cords. He relocated to Sydney in 1988 and was unable to sing or yodel for years as he recovered.
In 2003, Ifield was inducted into the Australian Roll of Renown. Ifield was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame at the ARIA Music Awards of 2007. In June 2009, he was presented with the Medal of the Order of Australia for "service to the arts as an entertainer".
Career
=Early years=
Frank Ifield was born on 30 November 1937 in Coundon, Coventry to Australian parents Richard Joseph Ifield (1909–1982) and Hannah Muriel née Livesey (c. 1916–2012), as one of seven sons.{{cite news | url = https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/australian-singer-and-yodeller-frank-ifield-once-had-a-support-act-called-the-beatles/news-story/aaa5427015aa98977e738f65b4ce835e | title = Australian singer and yodeller, Frank Ifield, once had a support act called The Beatles | last = Donnelly | first = Marea | work = The Daily Telegraph | date = 30 April 2016 | access-date = 22 July 2018 }} His parents had travelled to England in 1936, where his father was an inventor and engineer who created the Ifield fuel pump, used in jet aircraft, for Lucas Industries.{{cite web | url = https://www.allmusic.com/artist/frank-ifield-mn0000171855/biography | title = Frank Ifield Biography & History | publisher = AllMusic | access-date = 22 July 2018 | archive-date = 22 July 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180722070145/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/frank-ifield-mn0000171855/biography | url-status = live }}{{cite web | url = http://www.frankifield.com/dickifield/ | title = Richard Joseph (Dick) Ifield | last = Sheridan | first = Greg | work = The Bulletin | date = 24 August 1982 | access-date = 22 July 2018 | via = Frank Ifield Official Website | pages = 30, 32 | issn = 0007-4039 | archive-date = 22 July 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180722155811/http://www.frankifield.com/dickifield/ | url-status = live }}
The Ifield family returned to Australia in January 1948 aboard the liner RMS Orion.{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229040114 | title = Jet-Propulsion Expert Here | newspaper = Late Final Extra. The Sun | issue = 11,862 | date = 2 February 1948 | access-date = 22 July 2018 | page = 2 | via = National Library of Australia }} They lived near Dural, {{convert|50|km|mi|abbr=on}} north-west of Sydney. It was a rural district and he listened to hillbilly music (later called country music) while milking the family's cow. He was given a guitar in 1949 by his grandmother and was self-taught; he also taught himself to yodel, by imitating country stars, including Hank Snow.
The family moved to Beecroft, a Sydney suburb. At the age of 13, he performed his version of Bill Showmet's "Did You See My Daddy Over There?" and appeared on local radio station 2GB's talent quest, Amateur Hour.{{cite web | url = https://www.countrymusichalloffame.com.au/Hands/Ifield_Frank.html | title = Frank Ifield | publisher = Australian Country Music Hall of Fame | access-date = 22 July 2018 | archive-date = 20 September 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180920202159/http://countrymusichalloffame.com.au/Hands/Ifield_Frank.html | url-status = dead }} This track was issued as his first single, in 1953, by Regal Zonophone Records.{{cite web | url = https://www.rocky-52.net/chanteursi/ifield_frank.htm | title = Frank Ifield | work = Rock Productions | date = 21 September 2014 | access-date = 22 July 2018 | archive-date = 22 July 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180722095618/https://www.rocky-52.net/chanteursi/ifield_frank.htm | url-status = live }} By November of that year, he appeared regularly on Brisbane radio station 4BK's Youth Parade, playing guitar and singing, where, "All the artists in this programme are under 21 years of age."{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100178610 | title = Give the Kids a Break | last = Stirling | first = Joyce | newspaper = The Sunday Mail | location = Brisbane, Qld | date = 29 November 1953 | access-date = 22 July 2018 | page = 24 | via = National Library of Australia }} Note: includes a photo of Ifield with a group of fellow performers.
His third single was a cover version of "Abdul Abulbul Amir" (September 1954), which was backed by his own composition, "A Mother's Faith".{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143701215 | title = Through the Arts | last = Hampel | first = John | newspaper = Barrier Daily Truth | volume = XLVI | issue = 14,520 | date = 16 September 1954 | access-date = 22 July 2018 | page = 7 | via = National Library of Australia }}{{cite web | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | title = 'A Mother's Faith' at APRA search engine | url = http://apraamcos.com.au/search?searchtype=works&keywords=a+mothers+faith | access-date = 22 July 2018 | archive-date = 22 July 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180722070435/http://apraamcos.com.au/search?searchtype=works&keywords=a+mothers+faith | url-status = live }} Note: For additional work user may have to select 'Search again' and then 'Enter a title:' &/or 'Performer:' In 1956, he hosted Campfire Favourites on local TV station TCN-9, which "was the first weekly 'Western' programme by a local artist on Australian television."{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43597771 | title = Listen Here: Where It all Began | last = Fletcher | first = Bernard | newspaper = Teenagers' Weekly. The Australian Women's Weekly | issue = 2 | date = 17 June 1959 | access-date = 22 July 2018 | page = 7 | via = National Library of Australia }} Note: includes a photo of Ifield. From that year to late 1957, he recorded six singles with a backing group, Dick Carr Buckaroos.
In 1957, he recorded the track "Whiplash", which was used as the theme song for the British/Australian TV series of the same title from September 1960 to mid-1961.{{citation | author1 = Davis, Sharon | title = Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story: the Sixties | date = 2012 | publisher = London Mainstream Digital | pages = 1956–57, 1961–62| isbn = 978-1-78057-416-5 }} He toured the North Island of New Zealand in early 1959 where his single, "Guardian Angel", reached No. 1 on local radio charts. Ifield had two top 30 hits in that year on the Kent Music Report, with "True" (September, No. 26) and "Teenage Baby" (November, No. 23).{{cite book | title = Australian Chart Book 1940–1969 | last = Kent | first = David | author-link = David Kent (historian) | isbn = 0-6464-4439-5 | year = 2005 | publisher = Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd | location = Turramurra, NSW }} Note: Chart positions back calculated by Kent in 2005.{{cite web | url = https://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=34759&pages=2 | title = Albums Pre-1989 – Part 4 | last1 = Ryan (bulion) | first1 = Gary | publisher = Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung) | date = 10 February 2011 | access-date = 22 July 2018 | archive-date = 22 July 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180722161205/https://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=34759&pages=2 | url-status = live }} He returned to the United Kingdom in November 1959.{{cite web | last=Laing | first=Dave | title=Frank Ifield obituary | website=the Guardian | date=20 May 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/may/20/frank-ifield-obituary | access-date=24 May 2024}}
=1960s success=
Ifield's first UK single, "Lucky Devil" (January 1960), reached No. 22 on the UK Singles Chart.{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 2006
| title= British Hit Singles & Albums
| edition= 19th
| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
| location= London
| isbn= 1-904994-10-5
| page= 266}} His next six singles had less commercial success, but he had his first UK number-one hit with a cover version of the Victor Schertzinger and Johnny Mercer 1941 composition "I Remember You" (May 1962),{{cite book
| first= Jo
| last= Rice
| year= 1982
| title= The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits
| edition= 1st
| publisher= Guinness Superlatives Ltd
| location= Enfield, Middlesex
| page= 66
| isbn= 0-85112-250-7}} which topped the charts for seven weeks. Known for Ifield's falsetto and a slight yodel, it was the second highest-selling single of that year in the UK,{{cite web|title=Chart Archive – 1960s Singles|url=http://www.everyhit.co.uk/chart2.html|publisher=everyhit.com|access-date=30 August 2010|archive-date=18 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718105434/http://www.everyhit.co.uk/chart2.html|url-status=live}} and became the seventh million-selling single.{{cite web|title=Million-Selling Singles|url=http://www.everyhit.co.uk/awardmill.html|publisher=everyhit.com|access-date=30 August 2010|archive-date=18 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718105207/http://www.everyhit.co.uk/awardmill.html|url-status=live}} It is Ifield's highest charting single on the United States Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 5.{{cite book |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=121}}{{cite book | title = Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | date = 27 September 1991 | publisher = Record Research | isbn = 0-89820-089-X }} It also reached No. 1 on the Australian Kent Music Report.
His next single was a double A-side, "Lovesick Blues" and "She Taught Me How to Yodel" (October 1962). "Lovesick Blues", originally sung by Hank Williams, was treated in an upbeat "Let's Twist Again" style. The other track is a virtuoso piece of yodelling with the final verse – entirely yodelling – at double-speed. It also peaked at No. 1 in the UK, No. 2 in Australia, and reached No. 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100. He had been told by his management not to yodel because it would brand him. Nevertheless, he sang "She Taught Me to Yodel" as an encore for a Royal Variety Performance (November 1962),{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090531094108/http://www.eabf.org.uk/royal-variety-performance/archive/1960s/1962 | url = http://www.eabf.org.uk/royal-variety-performance/archive/1960s/1962 | title = 1962, London Palladium | work = Royal Variety Performance | publisher = Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund | archive-date = 31 May 2009 | access-date = 23 July 2018 }} at the specific request of the Queen Mother for a yodelling song. His next single, "Wayward Wind", made him the first UK-based artist to reach No. 1 three times in succession on the UK charts. The only previous artist to have done so was Elvis Presley. In Australia, it peaked at No. 16.
His UK charting singles from 1963 were "Nobody's Darlin' but Mine" (April 1963, No. 4), "Confessin' (That I Love You)" (June, No. 1), "Mule Train" (October, No. 22) and "Don't Blame Me" (December, No. 8). In 1963, he sang at the Grand Ole Opry, introduced by one of his heroes, Hank Snow. Many of his records were produced by Norrie Paramor. Ifield was also featured on Jolly What!, a 1964 compilation comprising eight of his tracks and four by the Beatles, which has been considered an attempt to cash in on Beatlemania.{{cite web |url=http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/ifield.asp |title=A Bloody Bad Album |date=12 November 2000 |publisher=snopes.com |access-date=17 June 2012 |archive-date=28 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928215900/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/a-bloody-bad-album/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.thebeatlesrarity.com/2012/03/10/jollywhat/ |title=Collector's Corner – "Jolly What! The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Stage:" a Vee Jay 'flop' becomes a highly coveted collector's item |publisher=The Beatles Rarity |access-date=8 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623215756/http://www.thebeatlesrarity.com/2012/03/10/jollywhat/ |archive-date=23 June 2012 |df=dmy-all }} (Vee-Jay Records had acquired US distribution rights to the Beatles along with Ifield.) Despite changing trends, Ifield continued to have further top 40 hits in that decade including "Angry at the Big Oak Tree" (April 1964), "I Should Care" (July), "Paradise" (August 1965), "No One Will Ever Know" (June 1966), and "Call Her Your Sweetheart" (September).
In 1965, he starred in Babes in the Wood, the London Palladium pantomime, which every year headlined with artists who had achieved popular success in the year.{{Cite web |title=It's Behind You - The Palladium Pantomime |url=http://www.its-behind-you.com/palladium.html |access-date=2024-05-26 |website=www.its-behind-you.com}}
Ifield twice entered the UK heats for the Eurovision Song Contest. He came in second in the 1962 heat with "Alone Too Long" (losing to Ronnie Carroll).{{cite web | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5dwMk36BhPzTmsTjkBSxyYx/frank-ifield | title = Sounds of the Sixties – Frank Ifield | last = Stanley | first = Bob | publisher = BBC | access-date = 23 July 2018 | archive-date = 14 September 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180914051031/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5dwMk36BhPzTmsTjkBSxyYx/frank-ifield | url-status = live }} In the 1976 heat he tried with "Ain't Gonna Take No for an Answer", finishing last of 12.
= Later years =
In 1991, Ifield returned to the UK chart when a dance remix of "She Taught Me How to Yodel", renamed "The Yodeling Song" and billed as Frank Ifield featuring the Backroom Boys, reached No. 40 on the UK Singles Chart. In more than 30 years, it became his 16th appearance on the chart. The song was mentioned by Victor Meldrew in the One Foot in the Grave episode, "Love and Death".{{cn|date=May 2024}}
In 2003, Ifield was inducted into the Australian Roll of Renown.{{cite web |url=https://www.tcmf.com.au/What-s-On/Roll-of-Renown/ |title=Roll of Renown |publisher=TCMF |access-date=21 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904141436/https://tcmf.com.au/What-s-On/Roll-of-Renown/ |archive-date=4 September 2018 |url-status=dead }} Ifield was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame at the ARIA Music Awards of 2007. In June 2009, he was presented with the Medal of the Order of Australia for "service to the arts as an entertainer". He was first married to Gillian Bowden (1965–88) and the couple had two children. His second marriage was to Carole Wood (1992 to his death). In 2005, he co-wrote his autobiography I Remember Me: the First 25 Years, with Pauline Halford.{{Cite book |last1=Ifield |first1=Frank |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_fZAAAAACAAJ |title=I Remember Me: The First 25 Years |last2=Halford |first2=Pauline |date=2005 |publisher=Kempton Marks |isbn=978-0-7552-0501-1 |language=en}}
Personal life
Ifield married Gillian Bowden, a dancer at the London Palladium, on 6 July 1965 at Marylebone Register Office, London.{{cite web | url = https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-jul-07-1965-singer-frank-ifield-weds-popular-singer-frank-ifield-was-69417858.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=0433C619-5971-4366-BF2F-9923B2A8D054&p=90011&n=0&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&IsFromSearch=1&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26pn%3d1%26ps%3d100%26sortby%3d2%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26npgs%3d0%26qt%3dfrank%2520ifield%26qt_raw%3dfrank%2520ifield%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26ot%3d0%26creative%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26pc%3d%26blackwhite%3d%26cutout%3d%26tbar%3d1%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26groupid%3d%26pseudoid%3d%26a%3d%26cdid%3d%26cdsrt%3d%26name%3d%26qn%3d%26apalib%3d%26apalic%3d%26lightbox%3d%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26xstx%3d0%26simid%3d%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d1%26nu%3d%26t%3d%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d%26cap%3d1%26cbstore%3d1%26vd%3d0%26lb%3d%26fi%3d2%26edrf%3d%26ispremium%3d1%26flip%3d0 | title = Jul. 07, 1965 – Singer Frank Ifield Weds: Popular singer Frank Ifield | work = alamy.com | access-date = 23 July 2018 | archive-date = 23 July 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180723064207/https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-jul-07-1965-singer-frank-ifield-weds-popular-singer-frank-ifield-was-69417858.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=0433C619-5971-4366-BF2F-9923B2A8D054&p=90011&n=0&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&IsFromSearch=1&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26pn%3d1%26ps%3d100%26sortby%3d2%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26npgs%3d0%26qt%3dfrank%2520ifield%26qt_raw%3dfrank%2520ifield%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26ot%3d0%26creative%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26pc%3d%26blackwhite%3d%26cutout%3d%26tbar%3d1%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26groupid%3d%26pseudoid%3d%26a%3d%26cdid%3d%26cdsrt%3d%26name%3d%26qn%3d%26apalib%3d%26apalic%3d%26lightbox%3d%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26xstx%3d0%26simid%3d%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d1%26nu%3d%26t%3d%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d%26cap%3d1%26cbstore%3d1%26vd%3d0%26lb%3d%26fi%3d2%26edrf%3d%26ispremium%3d1%26flip%3d0 | url-status = live }} Ifield starred as Dave Kelly, and Bowden appeared as a dancer in the comedy musical film Up Jumped a Swagman (December 1965).{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46450358 | title = Frank is home with his bride | last = Musgrove | first = Nan | newspaper = The Australian Women's Weekly | volume = 33 | issue = 20 | date = 13 October 1965 | access-date = 23 July 2018 | page = 7 | via = National Library of Australia }}{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/australian-singers-turned-actors/|title=Australian Singers Turned Actors|date=July 14, 2019|access-date=10 January 2020|archive-date=20 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720033117/https://www.filmink.com.au/australian-singers-turned-actors/|url-status=live}} The couple had two children.{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55463520 | title = Frank Ifield: Coming home to tour the country he loves | last = MacKenzie | first = Vicki | newspaper = The Australian Women's Weekly | volume = 49 | issue = 31 | date = 20 January 1982 | access-date = 23 July 2018 | page = 6 |via=National Library of Australia}}
In 1986, Ifield contracted pneumonia and required surgery to remove part of a lung. As a result, his vocal cords were damaged, which meant he could not sing or yodel for years until they recovered. He and Bowden divorced in 1988 and he returned to Sydney to live.{{cite news | url = https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Blast+from+the+past%3B+Frank+Ifield+Whatever+happened+to+the+man+with...-a060202568 | title = Blast from the past; Frank Ifield Whatever happened to the man with the yodel Frank Ifield, asked Mercury reader Mr I. Jones of Broadway, Walsall? | work = Sunday Mercury | date = 14 February 1999 | access-date = 23 July 2018 }} In 1992, he married Carole Wood, an airline hostess.
Ifield died in Hornsby Hospital in Hornsby, New South Wales (NSW){{Cite web |date=11 February 2025 |title=Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital |url=https://www.nslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/Hornsby/Pages/contact_us.aspx |url-status=live}} of pneumonia on 18 May 2024, at the age of 86.{{Cite web |last=Baker |first=Glenn A. |date=2024-05-20 |title=Australian music icon Frank Ifield dies aged 86 |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-music-icon-frank-ifield-dies-aged-86-20240520-p5jf1d.html |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en |archive-date=20 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520073222/https://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-music-icon-frank-ifield-dies-aged-86-20240520-p5jf1d.html |url-status=live }}
Bibliography
- {{citation | author1 = Ifield, Frank | title = Meet Frank Ifield | date = 1963 | publisher = World Distributors | url = https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/209022143 | access-date = 23 July 2018 }}
- {{citation | author1 = Ifield, Frank | author2 = Halford, Pauline | title = I Remember Me: the First 25 Years | date = 2005 | publisher = Kempton Marks | isbn=978-0-7552-0501-1 }}
Discography
=Albums=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ List of albums, with selected chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:12em;"| Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"| Album details ! scope="col" colspan="2"| Peak chart positions |
| scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"|UK ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"|US Country |
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| scope="row" | Yours Sincerely
| Released: 1959 Label: Regal Zonophone Records/Columbia (33-OEX 7513) Format: LP Producer: | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | I Remember You
| Released: December 1962 Label: Vee-Jay Records/Columbia (LP-1054, SR-1054/33-SX 1467) Format: LP Producer: Norrie Paramor | style="text-align:center;"| 3 | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Frank Ifield
| Released: 1963 Label: World Record Club Format: LP Producer: Norrie Paramor | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Born Free
| Released: August 1963 Label: EMI/Columbia (33-SX-1534, SCX-3485) Format: LP Producer: Norrie Paramor | style="text-align:center;"| 3 | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Blue Skies
| Released: March 1964 Label: EMI/Columbia (33-SX-1588, SCX-3505) Format: LP Producer: Norrie Paramor | style="text-align:center;"| 10 | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Frank Ifield's Greatest Hits
| Released: September 1964 Label: EMI/Columbia (33-SX-1633) Format: LP Producer: Norrie Paramor | style="text-align:center;"| 9 | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Portrait in Song
| Released: May 1965 Label: EMI/Columbia (33-SX-1723, SCX-3551) Format: LP Producer: Norrie Paramor | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Up Jumped a Swagman
| Released: December 1965 Label: EMI/Columbia (SX-33-1751, SCXO-3559) Format: LP Producer: Norrie Paramor | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Frank Ifield's Tale of Two Cities
| Released: 1966 Label: Hickory Records (LPM 136, LPS 136) Format: LP Producer: Norrie Paramor | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 35 |
| scope="row" | Close to You
| Released: 1966 Label: Columbia (SX6080) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Call Her Your Sweetheart
| Released: 1967 Label: Capitol Records (ST 6176) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Rovin' Lover
| Released: 1967 Label: Hickory Records (LPS 144) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | You Came Along
| Released: 1967 Label: Columbia (SX 6147) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | The Singer & the Song
| Released: 1968 Label: Columbia (SX 6225) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Happy Tracks
| Released: 1968 Label: Columbia (SX 6276) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Frank Ifield
| Released: 1970 Label: Decca (SKL 5064) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Someone to Give My Love to
| Released: 1973 Label: Spark (SRLP 111) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Joanne
| Released: 1975 Label: Blue Jean Records (BL 16905) Format: LP Producer: Norrie Paramor | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Ain't Gonna Take No for an Answer
| Released: 1976 Label: Interfusion (L 35813) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | One More Mile...One More Town
| Released: 1977 Label: EMI (EMC.2638) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Frank Ifield & Barbary Coast (with Barbary Coast)
| Released: 1978 Label: Fi Records Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Frank Ifield Sings
| Released: 1978 Label: Fi Records (FIR 3782) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Sweet Vibrations
| Released: 1979 Label: Fi Records (FIR 3782) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | Portrait Of
| Released: 1982 Label: PRT (N 146) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| scope="row" | I Remember These
| Released: 1985 Label: Axis (AX260444) Format: LP | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
=Singles=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1"
|+ List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:18em;" | Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Year ! scope="col" colspan="4" | Peak chart positions |
| scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| AUS {{Cite book | title = Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 | last1 = Kent | first1 = David | publisher = Australian Chart Book Ltd | location = St Ives, NSW | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-646-11917-6 }} Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974. ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| UK ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| US ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| US Country |
|---|
| scope="row"| "True" (Elaine Goddard) | rowspan="2"| 1959 | style="text-align:center;"| 26 || — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Teenage Baby" (Herman Guidry) | style="text-align:center;"| 23 || — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Lucky Devil" (Wally Gold/Aaron Schroeder) | rowspan="2"| 1960 | style="text-align:center;"| — || 22 || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Gotta Get a Date" (Berry/Ginsbery) | style="text-align:center;"| — || 49 || — || — |
| scope="row"| "I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer/Victor Schertzinger) | rowspan="2"| 1962 | style="text-align:center;"| 1 || 1 || 5 || — |
| scope="row"| "Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend/Irving Mills) | style="text-align:center;"| 2 || 1 || 44 || — |
| scope="row"| "The Wayward Wind" (Stanley Lebowsky/Herb Newman) | rowspan="5"| 1963 | style="text-align:center;"| 16 || 1 || 104 || — |
| scope="row"| "Nobody's Darlin' but Mine" (Jimmie Davis) | style="text-align:center;"| 41 || 4 || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Doc Daugherty/Al J. Neiburg/Ellis Reynolds) | style="text-align:center;"| 24 || 1 || 58 || — |
| scope="row"| "Mule Train" (Fred Glickman/Hy Heath/Johnny Lange) | style="text-align:center;"| 95 || 22 || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Please"A (Ralph Rainger/Leo Robin) | style="text-align:center;"| 5 || — || 71 || — |
| scope="row"| "Don't Blame Me" (Dorothy Fields/Jimmy McHugh) | rowspan="4"| 1964 | style="text-align:center;"| 43 || 8 || 106 || — |
| scope="row"| "Angry at the Big Oak Tree" (Paul Hampton/Bob Hilliard) | style="text-align:center;"| 32 || 25 || — || — |
| scope="row"| "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn/Axel Stordahl/Paul Weston) | style="text-align:center;"| — || 33 || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Summer Is Over" (Tom Springfield/Clive Westlake) | style="text-align:center;"| 40 || 25 || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Don't Make Me Laugh" (Bill Giant/Patricia Valando) | rowspan="3"| 1965 | style="text-align:center;"| 96 || — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Lonesome Number One" (Don Gibson) | style="text-align:center;"| 95 || — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Paradise" (Nacio Herb Brown/Gordon Clifford) | style="text-align:center;"| 88 || 26 || — || — |
| scope="row"| "No One Will Ever Know" (Mel Foree/Fred Rose) | rowspan="2"| 1966 | style="text-align:center;"| — || 25 || — || 42 |
| scope="row"| "Call Her Your Sweetheart" (Leon Payne) | style="text-align:center;"| 79 || 24 || — || 28 |
| scope="row"| "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green/Edward Heyman) | rowspan="2"| 1967 | style="text-align:center;"| 75 || — || 132 || — |
| scope="row"| "Up, Up and Away" (Jimmy Webb) | style="text-align:center;"| 81 || — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Good Morning, Dear" (Mickey Newbury) | rowspan="2"| 1968 | style="text-align:center;"| — || — || — || 67 |
| scope="row"| "Oh, Such a Stranger" (Don Gibson) | style="text-align:center;"| — || — || — || 68 |
| scope="row"| "It's My Time"B (John D. Loudermilk) | 1969 | style="text-align:center;"| — || — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" (Peter Callander/Geoff Stephens) | 1972 | style="text-align:center;"| 68 || — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "The Yodeling Song (Remix)"C (Tom Emerson/Paul Roberts/Van Esther Sciver) | 1991 | style="text-align:center;"| — || 40 || — || — |
Notes
- A"Please" peaked at No. 39 on the CHUM Charts in Canada.{{cite web|url=http://chumtribute.com/64-01-20-chart.jpg|title=CHUM Hit Parade - January 20, 1964|access-date=20 May 2024|archive-date=29 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129144539/http://chumtribute.com/64-01-20-chart.jpg|url-status=live}}
- B"It's My Time" peaked at No. 12 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.6073.pdf| title=RPM Top 50 Country - November 29, 1969}}
- CCredited to Frank Ifield featuring the Backroom Boys
Awards and honors
In June 2009, he was presented with a Medal of the Order of Australia, with a citation for "service to the arts as an entertainer."{{cite web | url = https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1141126 | title = Search Australian Honours Name: Ifield, Francis Edward | access-date = 23 July 2018 | archive-date = 24 May 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210524224226/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1141126 | url-status = live }}
On 10 June 2012, Ifield joined Paul Hazell on his World of Country show{{Cite web|url=http://www.uckfieldfm.co.uk/2012/community/country-singer-songwriter-and-yodeller-frank-ifield-was-in-the-uckfield-fm-studio/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505083223/http://www.uckfieldfm.co.uk/2012/community/country-singer-songwriter-and-yodeller-frank-ifield-was-in-the-uckfield-fm-studio/|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 May 2013|title=Country singer, songwriter and yodeller Frank Ifield was in the Uckfield FM studio|website=Uckfieldfm.co.uk|access-date=13 March 2023}} on the community radio station Uckfield FM. He discussed his life in music and forthcoming induction to the Coventry Music Wall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/lifestyle-news/coventry-history/backbeat-coventry/2012/06/14/backbeat-more-stars-honoured-on-coventry-music-wall-of-fame-92746-31182318/|title=Backbeat: More stars honoured on Coventry Music Wall of Fame|website=Coventrytelegraph.net|access-date=16 June 2012|archive-date=1 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001011140/http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/lifestyle-news/coventry-history/backbeat-coventry/2012/06/14/backbeat-more-stars-honoured-on-coventry-music-wall-of-fame-92746-31182318/|url-status=live}}
=Australian Roll of Renown=
The Australian Roll of Renown honours Australian and New Zealander musicians who have shaped the music industry by making a significant and lasting contribution to country music. It was inaugurated in 1976 and the inductee is announced at the Country Music Awards of Australia in Tamworth every January.{{cite web |url=https://www.tcmf.com.au/roll-of-renown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190227192415/https://tcmf.com.au/roll-of-renown |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 February 2019 |title=Roll of Renown |publisher=Tamworth Country Music Festival |access-date=29 October 2020 }}
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| 2003
| Frank Ifield
| Australian Roll of Renown
| {{yes2|inductee}}
{{end}}
=ARIA Music Awards=
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. It commenced in 1987. Ifield was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007.{{cite web |url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-award.php?awardID=36 |title=Winners by Award: Hall of Fame |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association |access-date=23 October 2020 |archive-date=2 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202052952/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-award.php?awardID=36 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url = http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2007 | title = ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2007: 21st Annual ARIA Awards | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | access-date = 23 July 2018 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071118143950/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2007 | archive-date = 18 November 2007 }}{{cite news | title = ARIA Presents the 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame | date = 6 May 2007 |publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | url = http://www.apra.com.au/news/industry/news/070507_ARIA-HallofFame.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080529092912/http://www.apra.com.au/news/industry/news/070507_ARIA-HallofFame.pdf | archive-date = 29 May 2008 | df = dmy }}
{{awards table}}
|-
| 2007
| Frank Ifield
| {{yes2|inductee}}
{{end}}
=Mo Awards=
The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards), were annual Australian entertainment industry awards. It recognised achievements in live entertainment in Australia from 1975 to 2016. Ifield won one award in that time.{{cite web|url=https://www.moawards.com.au/awardwinners|title=MO Award Winners|website=Mo Awards|access-date=16 March 2022|archive-date=11 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811130738/https://www.moawards.com.au/awardwinners|url-status=dead}}
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|-
| 2009
| Frank Ifield
| Hall of Fame
| {{yes2|inductee}}
|-
{{end}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.frankifield.com/|Frank Ifield's official website}}
- [http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3095255 Frank Ifield with autograph seekers, 1962]
- [http://www.music-city.org/Frank-Ifield/discography/ Frank Ifield discography from Music City]
- {{IMDb name|id=0406978|name=Frank Ifield}}
- {{discogs artist}}
- {{AllMusic}}
{{UK best-selling singles (by year) 1952–1969}}
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