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Independent label: The Masquerade Records managed at least two singles. It issued singles in an MA-5000 numerical series. Distributed By Masquerade Records. Arthur Ernest Mullard was Born 19 September 1910 and died 11 December 1995. He was an English actor and singer. Following military service and a brief boxing career, Mullard found work as a cockney character actor in film and TV comedy, notably in the series Romany Jones. It was the London Weekend Television series Romany Jones, first aired in 1973, which give Mullard his highest profile, playing Wally Briggs, a crafty caravan-dweller. Popular in its time, the show did not find critical favour and has subsequently been named as one of the worst British sitcoms ever made. So popular was Mullard's character that a sequel, Yus, My Dear, was broadcast in 1976, in which Wally and his wife Lily (Queenie Watts) had moved out of their caravan into a council house. The series gained modest ratings, though it too received critical broadsides as one of Britain's worst-ever sitcoms. In 1967, Mullard recorded "I Love You, You Love Me"/"Was It Something I Said" on the Masquerade label (MA5001). This was followed the same year by an album Arthur Mullard of London (MQ 2003) The LP included Mullard's cover of the Beatles' "Yesterday", jokes and philosophy. More singles followed in the 1970s, including 1974's "Not Now Arthur"/"If I Only Had My Time Again" (BASFBA 1012), and in 1975 "I Only Have Eyes for You"/"One 'Fing 'N' Annuver" (RCA 2610) with "Yus My Dear"/"Arthur" (RCA Z639A) released in 1976. He entered the UK Singles Chart in 1978 with his cover of "You're the One That I Want" (Pye 7N 46121) (from the film, Grease) with Hylda Baker, who was in her seventies. The single, which peaked at Number 22 in the UK, was taken from the album, Band On The Trot (Pye PKL 5576). The single was the last professional success of Mullard's life.
| 67 | The Castells [Masquerade] | Two Lovers | MASQUERADE | MA | 5000 |
| 67 | Arthur Mullard And The Bill Shepherd Flock | I Love You, You Love Me | MASQUERADE | MA | 5001 |
