Daniel Boone (born Peter Charles Green; 31 July 1942 – 27 January 2023) was an English pop musician who became a one-hit wonder in the United States with the single "Beautiful Sunday" in 1972.
[4] This, and some subsequent releases, had been attributed to 'Tommy Bruce and the Bruisers', despite the fact that the instrumental backings were provided by session musicians at EMI.
[5] The Bruisers started their recording career at EMI with Bruce and his manager Barry Mason, who later became a famous songwriter.
[6] Peter Green released a solo recording of a song called "My Heart Commands Me" under the name 'Lee Stirling' in March 1963.
[8] "Blue Girl" was released on 11 July 1963,[9] and entered the UK charts on 8 August, eventually reaching number 31.
[4] On the strength of this hit, the band appeared on the Thank Your Lucky Stars television show on 26 October, performing the follow-up "I Could If I Wanted To".
The first use of the full name 'Peter Lee Stirling' was in 1964 on "Sad, Lonely and Blue", but none of the eight records issued between 1964 and 1970 under this name entered the UK chart.
[10] However, Stirling went on to write or co-write "I Think of You"[11] and "Don't Turn Around", both of which were hits for The Merseybeats,[12][13] and co-wrote "I Belong" for Kathy Kirby,[14] which came second in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965.
[15] The Bruisers broke up in 1967 and Stirling became the co-owner, with Bernard Mattimore,[16] of a recording studio in London's Whitechapel Road, which specialised in covering contemporary chart material.
His first release for the label was a ballad called "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast", written by Geoff Stephens and Peter Callander and it rewarded him with his first, and only, top-twenty hit in the UK, peaking at number 17.
It also made the charts in Australia and New Zealand (gold record), Argentina, Belgium, France, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany.
[23] Boone became particularly popular in Germany, and released versions of "Beautiful Sunday" and the follow up, "Annabelle", in German.
[25] Boone continued his career as a composer and, in 1992, he collaborated with Larry Page to provide The Troggs with two songs for their Athens Andover album ("Tuned into Love" and "Hot Stuff").