Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson

In the 1950s, Joe was a regular on Britain's "Tin Pan Alley", the nickname given to the music industry based in Denmark Street, Soho (London).

[2] Joe wrote the incidental music and several songs for three British films that featured Petula Clark: "Made In Heaven" (1952), "The Gay Dog" (1954) and "The Happiness of Three Women" (1954).

He can be seen playing a medley of movie tunes in this clip from Episode 17 of 1956 TV show "Fanfare" (starts at 5 mins 12 secs): FILM FANFARE - NO 17 In 1957, George Hamilton IV scored a hit with Henderson and Jack Fishman's composition "Why Don't They Understand", a song they wrote about Henderson's relationship with Petula Clark.

Joe was interviewed by Roy Plomley for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs (broadcast on Mon 17 Jul 1972), in which he talks about how he got into music and the composing process.

You can here the extracted speech from the interview via the following BBC link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009nbly Joe collapsed suddenly at his home in West London from a heart attack on the morning of 4 May 1980, two days after his 60th birthday.