Ian Whitcomb

Ian Timothy Whitcomb 10 July 1941 19 April 2020 was an English entertainer singersongwriter record producer writer broadcaster and actor As part of the British Invasion his hit song You Turn Me On reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965 He wrote several books on popular music beginning with After the Ball published by Penguin Books Britain and Simon Schuster United States in 1972 He accompanied his singing by playing the ukulele and through his records concerts and film work helped to stimulate the revival of interest in the instrument His recreation of the music played aboard the RMS Titanic in the film of that name won a Grammy Award in 1998 for package design and a nomination for Whitcombs liner notes Titanic Music as Heard on the Fateful Voyage