This is an ORIGINAL 9" x 12" Sheet Music for the Song, RELEASE ME. It has a fold and it features a GREAT photo imagelegendary singer,ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCKThis sheet music is all ORIGINAL dated 1954. Light crease on top. Would look nice framed!. Shop with confidence! This is part of our in-store inventory from our shop which is has been located in the heart of Hollywood where we have been in business for OVER 37 years!MORE INFO ON ENGELBERT HUMPERDINK: Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey, 2 May 1936, ) is a well-known singer who rose to international fame during the 1960s and 1970s, after adopting the name of the famous opera as his own stage name. He was one of ten children of officer Mervyn Dorsey and his wife Olive. His family migrated to , when he was ten, and a year later he showed an interest in music and began learning the saxophone. By the early 1950s he was playing in nightclubs, but is believed not to have tried singing until he was 17 and friends coaxed him into entering a pub contest. His impression of prompted friends to begin calling him Gerry Dorsey, a name he worked under for almost a decade. His budding music career was interrupted when he served in the British military in the mid-1950s, but he got his first chance to record in 1958 with . His first single, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," was not a hit, but Dorsey and the label reunited almost a decade later with far different results. Dorsey continued working the clubs until 1961, when he was stricken with . He regained his health and returned to club work with little success, but in 1965 he teamed with former roommate who had become a music impresario and the manager of . He had his first real success in July 1966, in where he and four others represented England in the annual Knokke song contest, and In October he was on stage in . In that period, Humperdinck was already No. 1 in the Belgian charts, six months before the release of . Belgian Television then made a video clip in the harbour of Aware that Dorsey had been struggling several years to make it in music, Mills suggested a name change to the more arresting Engelbert Humperdinck, borrowed from the composer of such operas as . Mills also arranged a new deal with Decca Records. In early 1967 the changes paid off when Humperdinck's version of "," done in a smooth ballad style with a full chorus joining him on the third chorus, reached the top ten on both sides of the Atlantic and went to number one in Britain, keeping ' adventurous "" from entering the top slot in the UK. "Release Me" also went on to become the longest running chart single in history. It spent 56 weeks in the Top 50 in a single chart run, a record that still holds to this day. Even in a year dominated by rock music, the success of "Release Me" may not have been that surprising, considering 's chart comeback that began a year earlier, and stablemate Tom Jones's success with a ballad or two in the interim, both of which probably opened some new room for more traditionally-styled singers. "Release Me" was believed to sell 85,000 copies a day at the height of its popularity, and the song became the singer's signature song for many years. Humperdinck's deceptively easygoing style and casually elegant good looks, a contrast to Tom Jones's energetic attack and overtly sexual style, earned Humperdinck a large following, particularly among women. "Release Me" was followed up by two more hit ballads, "" and "", earning him a reputation as a that he didn't always agree with. "If you are not a crooner," he told writer Rick Sherwood, "it's something you don't want to be called. No crooner has the range I have. I can hit notes a bank could not cash. What I am is a contemporary singer, a stylized performer." The hits kept coming. He was successful with "". "A Man Without Love," "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize," "The Way It Used To Be," "I'm A Better Man," and "Winter World of Love" before the 1960s ended. In the 1970s he scored with such albums as The Last Waltz, The Way It Used To Be, A Man Without Love, and Engelbert Humperdinck. His own television program, was less successful, being cancelled after six months. As his kind of balladry became less relevant, and a few influences found their way into his music, Humperdinck concentrated on selling albums and on live performances, developing lavish stage presentations that made him a natural for and similar venues. He still had hit singles however, and "", a ballad recorded for subsidiary Epic, became one of the biggest hits of his career in 1976 and won him a nomination. It was a conscious effort to update his music and his image. "I don't like to give people what they have already seen," Humperdinck was quoted as saying in a 1992 tourbook. "I take the job description of 'entertainer' very seriously! I try to bring a sparkle that people don't expect and I get the biggest kick from hearing someone say 'I had no idea you could do that!'" He also defended his fan mania, which helped him continue to sell records when radio play dried up for him. "They are very loyal to me and very militant as far as my reputation is concerned," Humperdinck had told Sherwood. "I call them the spark plugs of my success."But he later revealed that he had little if any say in the selection of songs for his albums, a fact that had sometimes brought into question whether he was his own or his manager's or record label's pawn. As his career moved on, however, Humperdinck began gaining more creative freedom, and his albums accordingly brought several kinds of songs into his reach beyond syrupy ballads. But he kept romance at the core of his music regardless, and he's long since been tagged by fans as "the King of Romance."By the 1980s, approaching his fiftieth birthday, Humperdinck continued recording albums regularly and performing as many as 200 concerts a year, yet maintained a strong family life. He and wife Patricia raised four children (Bradley, Scott, Jason and Louise) who are said to have become involved in their father's career, even as the family alternated between homes in England and in southern California.In 1980 Sunday School teacher Kathy Jetter won a paternity ruling that Engelbert was the father of her daughter Jennifer born in 1980 and he has made paternity payments for her since then although he has declined to meet her. Diane Vincent also claimed that Engelbert was the father of her daughter Angelique and while Engelbert has never admitted the child was his he was forced to make a one-off settlement payment for her upbringing.He was awarded a star on the in 1989 and won a as entertainer of the year, while also beginning major involvement in charitable causes such as the Leukemia Research Fund, the American Red Cross, the American Lung Association, and several relief organisations. He wrote a song for one group, the theme anthem for Reach Out. "He's a gentleman," longtime friend Clifford Elson has been quoted as saying of him, "in a business that's not full of many gentlemen." Humperdinck?who changed his name legally to his stage name at the height of his career ?hit the top five British album charts in 2000 with Engelbert At His Very best, and returned to the album top five four years later, after he appeared in a John Smiths advertisement.In August 2005, Humperdinck producted his motorcycle on to raise money for the County Air Ambulance in , where he spent much of his British youth. His latest album released in September 2007 "The Winding Road" a tribute to British composers has done quite well. Engelbert's name was mentioned in the episode , being mistaken by for . A brief moment in 's comedy tour from 1999, Dress to Kill, has Eddie Izzard "announcing" the supposed death of Engelbert Humperdinck, both confirming and denying this fact, until he eventually states "I think he's got a cold, that's what they're saying. No wait, a tan." Shop with confidence! This is part of our in-store inventory from our shop which is has been located in the heart of Hollywood where we have been in business for OVER 37 years! It is part of our in-store inventory from our shop which is located in the heart of Hollywood where we have been in business for the past 37 years! Winning buyder agrees in advance to pay an additional Mailpostage (Foreign orders will require additional postage) and to remit full payment within 10 days after notification from the seller. PLEASE ALLOW 10 TO 14 DAYS FOR DELIVERY. California residents must add state sales taxes. Be sure to click on "View Seller's Other products" for more great items like this! Powered by eCRATER . List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.