Anthony Newley was English music hall reborn for the television age, a cockney-voiced song-and-dance man whose overenunciated, theatrical delivery made him, in the words of critics, a 'latter-day British Al Jolson.' He scored West End and Broadway hits, co-wrote standards like 'What Kind of Fool Am I' and 'Feeling Good,' and left an outsized mark on a generation of English pop singers who grew up doing impressions of him. He died in 1999, remembered as much for who he influenced as for his own considerable catalogue.

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What Kind of Fool Am IAnthony Newley