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HARRY PRICE
BASS 1954-1986
Harry Price was one of the best bass-baritone voices ever to be produced in the Rhondda Valleys. His rich, deep, melodic sound entranced audiences throughout the UK and beyond.
Harry was affectionately known as “The Singing Dustman” because by day he worked for Rhondda Borough Council’s refuse collection department, while by night he performed on stage and screen.
For seven years Harry appeared weekly on the Sunday night TWW programme “Land of Song” with Ivor Emmanuel. He also performed on such television shows as “Cabin y Cowboi” and “Praise To The Lord.”
Harry, who lived in Prospect Place, Treorchy, first sang with the Choir in Horeb Chapel, Treherbert in October 1954 and for the next thirty years was a regular feature of concerts at home and abroad.
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He gave twenty four solo concerts with the Choir but many hundreds of others by performing solo sections in Choir songs. His performances of “Amazing Grace” and especially “Just a Closer Walk With Thee” were truly mesmerising. The latter was arranged especially for Ella Fitzgerald who presented the music to the Choir following their joint appearance in the Tom Jones Show in 1971.
Harry undertook the Choir’s first tour of Canada where he charmed the Ontario audiences and he also appeared on many of the Treorchy Male Choir’s EMI recordings throughout the 1970s.
Harry Price died in 1994, aged sixty eight.
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