- Bill Shepherd was born on June 13, 1927 in Merstham, Surrey, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Killer Force (1976), Idol on Parade (1959) and The Mini-Mob (1967). He died on November 30, 1988 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- In 1953 he formed a vocal group of three men and two women called the Coronets (named for the Coronation that year) who became well known through work on radio and television. The Coronets sang backup on recordings and had a few of their own on Columbia.
- A few Bill Shepherd genre EPs were released on the Rainbow label in 1962, on colored vinyl: Hit Themes from TV, Western Songs, and the Sing-Along Party Record, twelve songs on a 7-inch disk.
- He signed with Pye, and a Bill Shepherd Orchestra instrumental single in 1958, 'Big Guitar', scored a French number 1 in France for its B side, a version of 'Tequila' (a US number 1 that year by the Champs).
- The Pye contract seems to have ended in 1962, but Bill continued to arrange for other artists' recordings and for radio and television. About this time he even had his own radio program on the BBC called Evergreen, for which he wrote the theme music.
- Bill left the group he formed in 1953'the Coronets' about 1955, after which another singer in the group, Mike Sammes, turned them into an institution as the Mike Sammes Singers, recording a large share of the backing vocals on British pop records through the 1970s (they sing on 'I Am the Walrus').
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