Harry Hopkinson (8 June 1902 – 4 March 1979), also known as Austin Layton and Harry Torrani, was a British music hall performer, a soprano and songwriter who has been credited as one of the world's greatest yodelers.
Hopkinson came from a family of miners in Manchester, England and started singing in the North Wingfield Church choir, and after a spell working in the local colliery, entered show business in a troupe of traveling entertainers.
The yodelling part of Hopkinson's act was expanded, and it was here he adopted the more commercial and continental-sounding name Harry Torrani.
"[citation needed] Hopkinson was married to wife Joy and had a daughter Dawn, he retired from show business during the late 1940s.
In his retirement he worked as a watch repairer, after entering a nursing home and having suffered a stroke he died on 4 March 1979 at the age of 76.