His biggest hit was one of the few to involve yodelling in a Top 40 song, and he had several number one hits in Britain, where he was born before his family relocated to Australia. 

Perhaps one of his least known contributions to music history, though, was giving a then unknown group called The Beatles a chance to play at his concerts in 1962. 

"It was around this time that he met The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein while playing at the Liverpool Empire - which led to the band appearing (free of charge) at Ifield's show at the Embassy Cinema in Peterborough in December 1962."

Ironically, it would be groups like the Fab Four that would pave the way for the end of his crooning career as his kind of music went out of style. 

Ifield was 86.

Sixties pop phenomenon Frank Ifield dies aged 86

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